A REAL Philanthropic Futurist

Joanie Connell is your host of REAL Life Lessons, a show where REAL (resilient, empowered, authentic, limber) women speak about what it takes to be successful in the world. Joanie is the president of Flexible Work Solutions, a San Diego based organizational consulting firm. She is the author of Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life, a book that helps people who grew up in today’s over-protected environments ready themselves for the unanticipated aspects of work life that no one prepared them for.