Joan Holman is the creator and producer of the award-winning PBS television program The Legacy of Achievement featuring the lives and lessons of great achievers. She is also the founder and Director of The Legacy of Achievement Foundation which is dedicated to preserving the legacies of great achievers using film, video and other media.
Corporate training and educational versions of the program have also been created and have been sold in those markets. Disney, IBM, Dupont, the University of Colorado, the University of South Carolina, Northwest Airlines, high schools, and libraries are among those who have purchased the program. Joan has also produced videos about the world-renowned New Zealand physical therapist Robin McKenzie.
The Legacy of Achievement Foundation -- With plans to produce several more Legacy of Achievement programs, Joan established the Legacy of Achievement Foundation, an organization dedicated to "using film and video and other means to create and disseminate an educational library documenting the lives and lessons of outstanding individuals of all races who exemplify positive characteristics and accomplishments."
Internet Marketing Guru – Joan is also nationally recognized as one of America's top Internet marketing experts, Joan Holman is Chief Enlightenment Officer of Joan Holman Productions, a Minneapolis-based company that helps businesses, organizations, authors and professionals with online marketing, business development, branding, public relations, book development and book marketing and the development and improvement of web sites. A broad-based consultant, Joan provides leadership, vision, creativity and insight to a nationale clientele. An author, ghostwriter, speaker and television producer, Joan's knowledge, experience and extensive network of contacts put her at the forefront of progressive developments in all areas of modern life.
Joan is featured in the book Online Marketing Heroes: Interviews with 25 Successful Online Marketing Gurus (published in 2008 by John Wiley & Sons) and is also featured in the book Dear Success Seeker: Wisdom from Outstanding Women along with a number of noteworthy women including Gayle King, the Editor at Large for O, the Oprah Magazine; tennis champion Billie Jean King; actress Phylicia Rashad; actress Della Reese; Joan Ganz Cooney, the founder of Sesame Street; and others. (published April 2009 by Atria Books, a division of Simon and Schuster.
A Dynamic Motivational Speaker -- In addition to speaking about business and the Internet, Joan is an expert on the science of success and the development of human potential and has spoken throughout the country as a motivational speaker.
Consultant to Massage Pioneer Sister Rosalind -- Joan has been a consultant to renown massage pioneer Sister Rosalind Gefre (who has been featured in Time Magazine in media throughout the world) and the Sister Rosalind Schools and Clinics of Massage and the Sister Rosalind Christian Ministries. Joan is the author of Hands That Touch, Hands That Heal, the biography of Sister Rosalind. Joan is responsible for the creation, development and design of this book as well as the publishing, distribution and marketing of the book.
Work with Authors -- Joan has worked with a number of authors including Michele Wright, Ph.D. (Dear Success Seeker); Kathryn Harwig (The Intuitive Advantage); Dennis Kimbro (Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice); Janie Jasin (million book bestseller The Littlest Christmas Tree); Keith Gaddy Davis (The Pause); May Yue (The Tao of Youth); Joan Solomon (Secrets in the Garden); Barbara Burke (The Napkin, The Melon & The Monkey); Barb Greenberg (After the Ball); and Meg Robinson (Drawn by A Star) and others. Joan is a writer, ghostwriter, book development and book marketing specialist.