Joanna Mackie, MA

Senior Associate

Joanna Mackie has 35 years of global and local experience as a leadership coach, consultant and designer/facilitator of learning and change journeys.  She focusses on supporting leaders to build awareness, insight, and capabilities to navigate complex change in ways that generate meaningful impacts.

As a Senior Associate of The Potential Group, she has co-developed and facilitated leadership capability-building, high-engagement strategic planning processes and building adaptive learning communities in a multitude of healthcare, social services and private sector settings. This has included work focussed on strengthening seamless stroke care, building leadership capacity in Family Health Teams and growing interprofessional collaboration to strengthen patient care across a large healthcare system, to name a few.

She has coached leaders and teams from the executive level to front-line community groups and is a trusted consultant to many leaders around the world.  She has deep expertise in helping leaders to notice and navigate implicit biases and to navigate the complexities of ‘cultural’ differences (including those related to the urban/rural divide, nation-states, socioeconomic and educational backgrounds etc.) She brings deep skill in helping people strengthen their emotional intelligence and find their way through ‘difficult conversations’ balancing listening and advocacy, to see where there is shared interest and hopes for the future.

Joanna has a master’s degree in organizational change from the University of Toronto and is certified in Emotional Intelligence through the Institute for Health and Human Potential.  She is certified in strengths-based approaches to leadership development (Strengthsfinder™) and graduated from the Newfield Network in ontological coaching.

In addition to her professional work Joanna is a singer and songwriter, performing locally in Grey Bruce County and as part of the 7-piece band Midnight Special.  She is also firmly committed to helping rescue dogs and feral cats in Grey Bruce, and to being part of creating a healthier community.