Who is Joan?
Theodore Roosevelt IV,
Managing Director and Chairman of Cleantech Initiative, Barclays Bank
"I have known Joan for almost two decades. She possesses immense integrity and courage. She is also a splendid writer. Readers have said this about her: 'A writer of sinewy prose.' 'Wise, funny forceful.' 'Elegant.' 'A breath of fresh air.' 'I shook my head in wonder many times.' A business partner wrote 'Astonishing. It's just not the formidable intellect; it's the grace of spirit and warmth.' Joan knows what it means to ride for the brand and does so with unalloyed grit and determination."
Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis
Wyoming
"Joan is an unsung hero to many of us in the West. She earned her spurs the hard way, not only doing the physical work on the range, but in putting aside Eastern stereotypes about the West. She received two ovations, speaking extemporaneously, at a cattleman's gathering. One rancher described her as: 'True north.' Sunshine heals, and Joan shines for us here in written, spoken words, and the sheer force of her good will."
Jack Rivkin
(former) Chief Investment Officer, Neuberger Berman; Director, Idealab
"Joan is such a great writer, she makes the entire process of giving a speech incredibly easy."
Nan Morrison
President and CEO Council for Economic Education
"As a speechwriting consultant and coach, Joan consistently over delivers. Her strategic messaging is always on target for the audience: elegant, precise, uplifting. Her coaching is delivered in a way that is easily heard and acted upon by the student. She embodies the word "collaborative" - fights to get the right approach in play, but is open and receptive to ideas not her own. With her 1+1 makes 3. She is positive and result-oriented; the 100 percent solution for CEO's refining their approaches to audience connection."
Amos Eno
President/Executive Director, Resources First Foundation
"Joan is perhaps the best most perspicacious and acerbic writer on land, natural resource and energy issues in the United States. She is a superb researcher, a discerning analyzer of character and can pinpoint a charlatan a league away. She has a rich sense of humor and understands the market place. In my book she gets 5 stars. I know of only one peer to her talents."
Marie Hunter
(former) Managing Director Head of Marketing and Client & Executive Services, Lehman Brothers; Senior Director, Intellectual Property Acquisitions IEEE
"I had the pleasure and honor of working with Joan on a host of strategic marketing initiatives for the Firm including producing conferences, seminars and workshops where Joan's work was featured. Joan is first and foremost a writer. She has tremendous intellectual capacity and scope and has written extensively under her own name as well as anonymously for prominent business and government leaders. I have marveled at the variety of topics and voices covered in speeches and presentations for some of the most prominent global statesmen of our Firm. Joan has the natural inclination to be well informed, but she will thoroughly master any topic upon which she is writing, including adaptation for the audience to whom the work will be presented - and her work has been presented globally. Joan is also adept at speaking coaching and feedback, speaker scheduling and relationship management. I hope to be in a position to utilize her tremendous skills and in the meantime I am eagerly awaiting her next article..."
Timothy Bott
graphic designer and law student
"To Joan, the Diaspora Liberal"
"Joan is my shepherd; I shall not want. She maketh me read Wall Street Journal OpEds; she leadeth me to objective analysis. She restoreth Wyoming ranchlands, or she leadeth me to her rancher friends who do. Yea, tho I walk through the building under the shadow of Time Square, I will fear no bankers: for Joan art with me; Ted's Chief of Staff does comfort me. Thou preparest research before me in the presence of branded templates.
Thou annointest Ted with a wonderful speech, but the time runneth over.
Surely her merciless independence shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will enjoy the genius of Joan for ever."
Norma Baretto
Executive Assistant, former colleague at Lehman Brothers
"I miss that look of total concentration on your face. You're awesome."
From Joan Chevalier's Essay: Wasted on a White Collar Job in award-winning anthology: Home Land: Ranching and A West That Works
"It is a fluke of personal history that my mother was born late to my grandmother and left her own marriage early, so that I was mostly raised by my grandparents in the "hard coal," under the aegis of union solidarity and community empowerment. Growing up with them was about as wild as anything the West has to offer: watchful of the Susquehanna River at our front door, slow and gray until the flood seasons when it threw boulders down its length; mindful that the "bubble fountain" outside my cousin's house was really a sulfuric pit, the fumes from which could render unwary children unconscious; breathless with anticipation as my grandmother's well-worn hands lifted a robin's nest from the cherry tree to show us how it was lined with her soft white hair. These stories, shared around kitchen tables far from my grandparents' lives in time and place, allow me to participate in ranchers' lives as one of their own."
Managing Director and Chairman of Cleantech Initiative, Barclays Bank
"I have known Joan for almost two decades. She possesses immense integrity and courage. She is also a splendid writer. Readers have said this about her: 'A writer of sinewy prose.' 'Wise, funny forceful.' 'Elegant.' 'A breath of fresh air.' 'I shook my head in wonder many times.' A business partner wrote 'Astonishing. It's just not the formidable intellect; it's the grace of spirit and warmth.' Joan knows what it means to ride for the brand and does so with unalloyed grit and determination."
Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis
Wyoming
"Joan is an unsung hero to many of us in the West. She earned her spurs the hard way, not only doing the physical work on the range, but in putting aside Eastern stereotypes about the West. She received two ovations, speaking extemporaneously, at a cattleman's gathering. One rancher described her as: 'True north.' Sunshine heals, and Joan shines for us here in written, spoken words, and the sheer force of her good will."
Jack Rivkin
(former) Chief Investment Officer, Neuberger Berman; Director, Idealab
"Joan is such a great writer, she makes the entire process of giving a speech incredibly easy."
Nan Morrison
President and CEO Council for Economic Education
"As a speechwriting consultant and coach, Joan consistently over delivers. Her strategic messaging is always on target for the audience: elegant, precise, uplifting. Her coaching is delivered in a way that is easily heard and acted upon by the student. She embodies the word "collaborative" - fights to get the right approach in play, but is open and receptive to ideas not her own. With her 1+1 makes 3. She is positive and result-oriented; the 100 percent solution for CEO's refining their approaches to audience connection."
Amos Eno
President/Executive Director, Resources First Foundation
"Joan is perhaps the best most perspicacious and acerbic writer on land, natural resource and energy issues in the United States. She is a superb researcher, a discerning analyzer of character and can pinpoint a charlatan a league away. She has a rich sense of humor and understands the market place. In my book she gets 5 stars. I know of only one peer to her talents."
Marie Hunter
(former) Managing Director Head of Marketing and Client & Executive Services, Lehman Brothers; Senior Director, Intellectual Property Acquisitions IEEE
"I had the pleasure and honor of working with Joan on a host of strategic marketing initiatives for the Firm including producing conferences, seminars and workshops where Joan's work was featured. Joan is first and foremost a writer. She has tremendous intellectual capacity and scope and has written extensively under her own name as well as anonymously for prominent business and government leaders. I have marveled at the variety of topics and voices covered in speeches and presentations for some of the most prominent global statesmen of our Firm. Joan has the natural inclination to be well informed, but she will thoroughly master any topic upon which she is writing, including adaptation for the audience to whom the work will be presented - and her work has been presented globally. Joan is also adept at speaking coaching and feedback, speaker scheduling and relationship management. I hope to be in a position to utilize her tremendous skills and in the meantime I am eagerly awaiting her next article..."
Timothy Bott
graphic designer and law student
"To Joan, the Diaspora Liberal"
"Joan is my shepherd; I shall not want. She maketh me read Wall Street Journal OpEds; she leadeth me to objective analysis. She restoreth Wyoming ranchlands, or she leadeth me to her rancher friends who do. Yea, tho I walk through the building under the shadow of Time Square, I will fear no bankers: for Joan art with me; Ted's Chief of Staff does comfort me. Thou preparest research before me in the presence of branded templates.
Thou annointest Ted with a wonderful speech, but the time runneth over.
Surely her merciless independence shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will enjoy the genius of Joan for ever."
Norma Baretto
Executive Assistant, former colleague at Lehman Brothers
"I miss that look of total concentration on your face. You're awesome."
From Joan Chevalier's Essay: Wasted on a White Collar Job in award-winning anthology: Home Land: Ranching and A West That Works
"It is a fluke of personal history that my mother was born late to my grandmother and left her own marriage early, so that I was mostly raised by my grandparents in the "hard coal," under the aegis of union solidarity and community empowerment. Growing up with them was about as wild as anything the West has to offer: watchful of the Susquehanna River at our front door, slow and gray until the flood seasons when it threw boulders down its length; mindful that the "bubble fountain" outside my cousin's house was really a sulfuric pit, the fumes from which could render unwary children unconscious; breathless with anticipation as my grandmother's well-worn hands lifted a robin's nest from the cherry tree to show us how it was lined with her soft white hair. These stories, shared around kitchen tables far from my grandparents' lives in time and place, allow me to participate in ranchers' lives as one of their own."