Joan Barnes
Joan Barnes holds audiences with rapt honesty, vitality and humility. She entertains and teaches with humor and provocative storytelling.
Drawing on her personal journey of building two successful companies—Gymboree and The Yoga Studio—she regales with a back story perspective that touches deeply.
Learn more at http://www.joanbarnesspeaks.com/
She is the author of “Play it Forward: From Gymboree to the Yoga Mat and Beyond” available for preorder on Amazon and ships May 10.
Play It Forward details her remarkable business journey, from founding and leading Gymboree to the brink of its prosperous IPO, to the personal crisis that forced her to step down as CEO, to her successful second act as the leader of an innovative yoga business. Her story is one of female entrepreneurial success. Barnes built an innovative, billion-dollar household brand starting with $3,000 and working in a church basement.
