Joanie B. Connell, Ph.D., is a talent management expert, organizational consultant, author, and public speaker. She is also a leadership and career coach and she especially loves helping technical people improve their people skills and bringing people skills to tech development, including AI. Joanie is the author of "Consulting to Technical Leaders, Teams, and Organizations: Building Leadership in STEM Environments," in American Psychological Association's "Fundamentals of Consulting Psychology Series." To learn more, visit her Reinventing Nerds and Lessons from the Workplace podcasts and blogs. Her clients are from Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, not-for-profit, government agencies, high tech, biotech, healthcare, finance, legal, and other industries. As a professor, she has taught business and psychology students at the University of California San Diego, Alliant International University, and National University.Joanie is also the author of "Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life." She’s an expert on managing people of different generations and helping young people develop life skills for work, and she gives keynotes and podcast interviews on the many contributions and challenges new generations bring to our society. Joanie has a PhD in psychology from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Harvard. Specializing in: leadership assessment and development, career coaching, organizational consulting, and keynote speeches. Joanie is available to speak at corporations, industry groups, schools, and non-profits.