Joanna Boutilier

Joanna Boutilier, M.A., CSFP, PEC is a solution-focused educator, coach, counsellor, consultant, curriculum developer, writer, and Professor at Humber College. An award-winning educator, Certified Solution Focused Practitioner, and Certified Positive Educator, Joanna is dedicated to helping bring more solution-focused, strength-based practices and conversations into classrooms, staff rooms, schools, workplaces, communities, families, and youth organizations. With over 25 years’ experience, Joanna has designed and facilitated customized training, workshops, courses, curriculum, mentoring, and coaching for individuals, teams, schools, helping professionals, and organizations including helplines, child & family service organizations, women’s centers, and youth organizations. Joanna enjoys promoting solution-focused, strength-based ways of enhancing the helping conversations that we have with ourselves and others, expanding their focus from problems and complaints towards strengths, resources, goals, successes, hopes, and solutions.  She has a special focus on mentoring, advising, educating, and coaching youth, girls, and women.