Joanne Davis

Joanne Davis specializes in strategic communications and sales coaching, education and training. Consulting clients include or have included Bausch and Lomb, BlueCross BlueShield, Colonial Pipeline Company, Fidelity Investments, Ford Motor Company, IBM, Jim Beam Brands, Merrill Lynch, Miller Brewing Company, Smith Barney, Subway Restaurants, Vanity Fair Apparel and Wilmington Trust Company and the U.S. Department of Defense.

A popular speaker and writer, Joanne has led workshops for executives on four continents. She speaks regularly for the Association of National Advertisers, American Association of Advertising Agencies and the American Advertising Federation. She was recently named to the faculty of the ANA.

Joanne spent 20+ years as either an agency owner, president, board member or in management in domestic and international advertising and marketing communications agencies including Bozell Worldwide (a top ten US agency at the time), Wells Rich Greene (a leading creative agency), OMON (an international creative boutique) and DDB (a top ten agency).

During her agency career, Joanne helped build brands and businesses for clients including Chase, Mobil, IBM, Xerox, Ray-Ban, Andrew Jergens Company and Toyota. In her global business development capacity she helped her agencies with double-digit growth in new business from clients including Bank of America, IBM, Philip Morris, MCI, Sheraton, and Verizon.

She is on the Board of Directors of the American Advertising Federation Foundation and the Executive Committee of The Advertising Club of New York. She is a former President of The Club and Chair of the Foundation. She was selected by the Advertising Age as one of the "25 Women to Watch" in the first year of the awards program and profiled by USA Today as one of the five best woman rainmakers.

She holds a BA in English from the College of New Rochelle and also studied at the Graduate School of Business at NYU.