Joanne joined TLG after a successful career in healthcare and senior services.  She has extensive and diversified executive leadership experience including strategic planning, market positioning, new business development and growth, mergers and acquisitions, and improvement of operational outcomes through service excellence and culture change.

Joanne led the senior service strategy and operations at the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) for over nineteen years.  After leaving the DMC she provided operational leadership to senior living organizations including Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, Mercy Bellbrook, Homestead Management Group and Presbyterian Villages of Michigan, where she served as Chief Operating officer. She recently served as the VP of Integration and Strategy for Trinity Health Senior Communities, a national division of Trinity Health.  Joanne holds a master of science degree and specialist in aging certificate from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University.  She is a Registered Nurse and a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator in the State of Michigan.

Joanne is committed to helping health and human service organizations to achieve optimal effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability by strengthening leadership teams.  Her approach to consultation is collaborative and client centered.  Areas of focus include organizational assessment, team building, culture change to achieve operational results, strategic planning/positioning and team preparation/integration for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

Joanne is actively involved in community and professional organizations having served on the Boards of Leading Age Michigan and PACE Southeast Michigan.   She currently serves on the Senior Executive Forum of HealthcareNEXT which is the health care sector group for Inforum, a statewide career and leadership development organization for women.

Direct contact by email:  jrobinson@theleadershipgroup.com or cell:  (248) 884-3624.