The Author

Author Profile

Jo-Ann Triner is the founder of Soulful Work LLC, the architect of SoulfulWork.net and author of SOUL: The Essential Success Factor. She is an award-winning grants writer, curriculum designer and instructional leader who has worked with the brightest and the best, teaming with them to earn a National Excellence Award, Best Practice Awards and countless other recognitions for innovation in education. Her fascination with quality of life in the workplace is reflected in her dissertation and in a lifetime of leadership roles. She holds a doctor's degree in educational administration with a specialty in human ecology.

Recognizing that workers in the 21^st century are worn weak at a soul-deep level, Jo-Ann takes up their cause, insistent that learning how to serve soul is essential to success. In her upcoming book, she puts theory into practice, identifying themes that hold power to transform half-hearted human beings into the highly empowered. So much time is wasted in staying busy as a substitute for success, she asserts, a problem easily solved by helping the human spirit to soar.

Jo-Ann is an Ohio-based writer with a strong belief in the power of the people to perform at their highest potential. Her experience has proven that when passion for work meets with the power of talent and training, ordinary workers redefine themselves as the truly extraordinary. Jo-Ann discloses that she has literally walked with kings in her leadership roles, inspired by colleagues who worked tirelessly on behalf of the common good. The lessons they taught with their lives survive the teachings of any one day, evidence enough that working with soul is indeed the essence of success.