Johanna is a first generation American. As both a student and teacher of human potential, her personal mantra is to be the best original version of her individual self in everything she does. She is a native of Wilmington, DE, but her family is originally from Chile. She is honored to be the parent to a beautiful daughter named Grace and a handsome buff tabby named Oscar.

Creator of award nominated app called Moksha that was released this year. Using technology in ways that serve and support you, Moksha is here is to inspire and remind people of their own magnificence through push notifications from the collective wisdom daily at 11:11AM EST and much more. Notifications will include inspiring quotations and thoughts to contemplate. Available for Android and iPhone.

Johanna is a Registered Corporate Coach™ through the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches™ (WABC™). Johanna has spent the last 20 years in a corporate setting sharing her gifts and talents. She has been coaching individuals for 19 years. She loves helping others stretch beyond their predetermined limits all while inviting more joy in their lives. She is a featured blogger on a Fortune 500 company internal social networking website. She has also co-chaired and sat on various councils that acted as a two-way feedback channel between the service organization and managers.

Johanna understands the stresses of working in the finance industry; therefore, she has helped to bring mindfulness and meditation into the forefront of the corporate world as Head of Operations of Mindfulness for two years for a Fortune 500 company. She is also certified as an Organizational Mindfulness Strategist from the Institute for Organizational Mindfulness (IOM). She still leads and facilitates group meditations. She has experienced the profound effects meditation has had in her own life and is eager to share the practice with as many people as possible. She knows how powerful meditation can be, and she wants others to sleep more soundly, live with less stress or anxiety, and enjoy a deep quality of living that only meditating can provide. She helps individuals begin their journey to developing a meditation practice. She guides and supports them in their meditation practice to help them maintain and deepen it.

Johanna is also a Meditation Program Consultant. In today’s fast-moving society, our minds and bodies often have difficulty slowing down and being present. Mindfulness meditation programs provide benefits to every person, regardless of position or title. Studies have shown numerous health and wellness benefits. Harvard Business Review states “Mindfulness should no longer be considered a 'nice-to-have' for executives.. It's a 'must-have': a way to keep our brains healthy, to support self-regulation and effective decision-making capabilities, and to protect ourselves from toxic stress." Johanna can consult with you on how to set up a mindfulness meditation program for your employees. She works with both corporate sector clients as well as small businesses. Her program can help reduce stress, manage the pressures of productivity, and create a balance between life at work and home. Johanna designs and develops a program dictated by the needs of your organization using her many years of experience and training in both the mindfulness and corporate sector. This program will support you as you support your employees’ self-care in order to rejuvenate and re-energize them so that they can be their best and their happiest at work.

She is also an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner and is currently studying under Gary Craig the founder of EFT.

Johanna was also very involved in her community the past 10 + years through her animal welfare work as a co-founder and past two term board president of one of the top no-kill animal shelters in her area called Faithful Friends. She also co-founded, chaired and participated on numerous state wide animal welfare committees as well as an animal-agency coalition.?