Ep. #22 From Corporate HR to Professional Artist with Joanna Lee Miller

Joanna Lee Miller made a radical career change. In 2017 she took a year sabbatical to study painting in Florence - fully intending to return to her corporate career. Nearly 4 years later she is a professional artist alongside working as a career coach and change consultant. In this high energy conversation Jo shares her story about making this move from corporate life to artist life and portfolio career. We talk aboutHow important relationships are in building a successful careerThe importance of sponsorshipThe struggle of how to decide to move out of corporate lifeHow a coach helped her to make the decision to follow her dreamHow to hold the tension between her art and her corporate work and coaching Joanna Lee Miller is an organizational change and transformation expert driving effective and lasting change for companies at the local to the multinational level across all industries. Jo is also a career advancement coach and is a professional landscape painter. She began her career with Deloitte consulting in change management communications talent management and culture transformation. She then moved into HR, working as HR director at American express in New York, London, and Singapore. While in Singapore, Jo decided to shift gears completely, moving from here to Florence, Italy, to train as a professional artist at the Florence academy of Art.Jo's three years of highly technical training followed the traditional academic methods of the 19th century European Ateliers. She's now back in South Africa, her home country, where she's focusing on her three different yet interconnected careers, change management, consultant, career advancement, coaching and landscape painter.You can find Joanna here:joannaleemiller.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-miller-517b38/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joannaleemiller/@joannaleemillerKim Myerson: https://www.kmyerson.com/Alice Toich: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alice_toich/?hl=enLindsey Coen Fernandez: [email protected] Artist’s way  - Julia Cameron - https://juliacameronlive.com/Emotional Agility - Susan David - https://www.susandavid.com/https://www.instagram.com/susandavid_phd/https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanadavidphd/Sign up to my weekly newsletter.Book a free strategy call: https://calendly.com/jean-balfour/30minLearn more about my work: https://jeanbalfour.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanbalfour/