ABOUT ME

A 2-minute video to find out about my coaching style and philosophy.

Coach Joan Kling's headshot. She is wearing a blue shirt and standing in front of a stone wall.

I have wanted to be a coach ever since I first heard the term coach 20 years ago. 

As soon as I saw my first “talk show”—probably Merv Griffin during the day and Johnny Carson at night—I wanted to sit one on one with people and get to know them on a deep personal level. I wanted to ask questions and be fascinated by the answers. I wanted to laugh and joke and cry and moan with the good and the bad, common and strange, and unusual elements of humanity.

“I have always asked a lot of questions. Once my daughter gave me an old-fashioned type writer key crafted into a book mark. She said “I gave you the question mark because you ask a lot of questions.” I said, “What do you mean by that?””
— Joan Kling

My Specialties

  • Corporate Coaching

  • Group Coaching

  • Life Coaching

  • Personal Coaching

  • Relationship Coaching

  • Transition Coaching

  • Organizational Training

  • Seminar Instructor

  • Keynote Speaker

  • Retreat Facilitator

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

  • Masters of Executive Leadership (MSEL)

  • Positive Intelligence

  • EQi certification

  • 360 evaluation certification

  • ELI evaluation certification

  • Transactional Analysis Practitioner

  • “Educator of Effective Communications”

    (Dr. Pat Allen’s WANT Institute)

  • BA journalism

  • Conversational Spanish

PROFESSIONAL MILESTONES

  • 33 years in local government service

  • 28 years in Code Enforcement, Planning and Building

  • 20+ years in Organizational Training & Development

  • Master Degree in Executive Leadership (MSEL)

  • Presenter at International Conferences

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More About Me

ME — IN 10 BULLET POINTS

  • Philly girl

  • Motherless Daughter

  • Annoyingly optimistic

  • Brutally honest

  • Servant leader

  • Empathetic listener

  • Inquisitive wanderer

  • Spiritually Intuitive

  • Permission giver

  • Contagiously humorous

  • Food combater

  • Large family survivor

  • Unable to count to 10

10 THINGS I’M MOST PROUD OF

  • Catherine and James

  • Moved to San Diego by myself at 19

  • Swam between the buoys off Moonlight Beach in Encinitas

  • Learned to drive a stick shift car

  • Swam from La Jolla Shores to La Jolla Cove

  • Completed a Sprint Triathlon at 50 years old

  • Earned Master’s Degree at 50

  • Group of awesome friends

  • Sold or gave away virtually everything I owned and moved to the Bay Area at 56

  • Survived the often-deadly ocular melanoma

Let’s see if we’re a fit.

I offer a free introductory consultation session to determine if we might be a good match and for you to ask any questions about my process or approach.