Johanna Parker

Activist, Business leader, Change Agent, Connector, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Event planner, Life mentor, World traveler

Johanna Parker is an award-winning Australian-based confidence and public speaking coach, international speaker and MC, personal leadership maven, educator, strategist, communication expert and the founder of Heart Sparks, where, through a unique combination of heart, strategy and healing, she passionately supports both adults and adolescents worldwide to master their mindset, ignite their voice, take up space on global stages and embrace all that makes them unique in life and leadership. With an extensive professional background in social work, crisis intervention, mental health response, counselling, leadership, people management, organisational development and project work for systemic change prior to her life work as a coach and speaker, Jo passionately supports her clients and audiences to align their head and their heart with deeper conviction. Over the past ten years her work has seen thousands of adults and workplaces build unwavering confidence and clarity within themselves, her school-based curriculum has transformed wellbeing conversations in the education sector and her work as a coach trainer at the Beautiful You Coaching Academy has supported hundreds of heart-centered people across the globe to build successful service-based businesses. Her work has been featured in a range of print and online media, including Renegade Collective, The Herald Sun, The Huffington Post, Pro Bono Australia, ELLE Magazine, the Daily Guru and Inspired Coach Magazine. She has appeared on countless podcasts, national radio broadcasts, online channels and on national television, where she has also been a strong campaigner against youth homelessness in Australia and for ending violence against women.

Communication, heart-led leadership, intersectional feminism, life Coaching, diversity, equity + inclusion, youth issues, mindset, good cups of coffee.

Coaching, Communication, Confidence, Personal Leadership, Public Speaking

I attended my first live TEDx event back in 2021 in Melbourne.

Getting complex knots out of tangled jewellery chains.