Joanna (Jo) is a leadership advisor and lawyer specializing in the areas of labour relations, human rights, administrative fairness and transformative justice. Jo provides progressive leaders with strategic advice, policy development and restorative engagement processes that support their work for a more just and healthy society.
Her legal expertise is in the areas of labour and employment, administrative justice and human rights law. She has advocated for her clients in forums ranging from labour arbitration boards to the Supreme Court of Canada. She was managing partner at a boutique labour and employment law firm in Vancouver for many years before she founded Rise Leadership.
Jo is a skilled mediator, facilitator and convenor of important conversations and community engagements as well as a certified leadership coach and zen chaplain and practitioner.