Joan Bateman

Speaker Profile

Joan is a keynote and workshop expert on the psychology behind

Headshot Therapy 101  or - why you hate yourself in photos.

Increase confidence & self-esteem & productivity while creating images that propel your career.

Joan passionately expresses the importance of creating positive self esteem changes for the next generation focusing on body positivism, self esteem and increased self-worth

• Joan has helped hundreds of women and men about how to love themselves, their bodies and their present humanity ... feeling valuable and confident.

• She explains that what we see in the mirror is what a passport looks like, not the true image the rest of the world actually sees. Beauty is recognized by the perceiver because the perceiver can see the true you, not a static image in the mirror. She helps you to trust the external compliments you receive because others see you in a true fluid and confident manner.

Joan can help her audiences internalize this message.

On another note, Joan is a true advocate for the OPTION of alternative medicine, especially the utilization of Cannabis and CBD options for multiple medical and therapeutic milieus. Joan is a Breast Cancer survivor and a Psychiatric Nurse who has worked with acute mental health clients in both the hospital and community care environments.

Joan can discuss the issues of pharmaceuticals vs new therapies, and the alternative science that is beginning to be available to everyone. The messages are insightful, humorous, inspiring - but most of all they can reduce the fear and stigma surrounding the alternatives of the cannabis options.

As a Fashion and Runway House photographer in New York City and Canada, as well as a studio owner dealing with psychological therapies with photography as well as a full swing commercial and portrait presence, Joan has developed:

Many streamlined sessions available for Learning and Marketing for photographers:

• Bereavement therapy /Photographic therapy for bulimics/anorexics and self-esteem issues
• Adobe Photoshop/software and template creative specialist/instructor

• Pin-Up Photography

• Portraiture/Specialist in posing and client satisfaction training
• Celebrity and Journalism Photographer / Art Director for Spotlight Magazine

Joan also brings to her seminars and keynotes the valuable knowledge she has procured as a:
• Psychiatric Nurse
• Aesthetician/ Makeup Artist/ Hair stylist
• Initial work was as a psychiatric nurse dealing with acute adult clients and specializing in storyboard therapy with anorexic and bulimic clients
• Owner/Operator of 1 of the largest and oldest (1918) Photographic Studios in Canada

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About Joan

Joan is an enthusiastic and creative marketer/ speaker and photographic specialist, she has the personality and expertise to tactfully ....and fact-fully help clients and individuals face their biggest personal self-esteem challenges; head-on. Joan is passionate about creating a positive professional reputation for photographers. She believes that photographers have a responsibility to empower and encourage their clients' self-esteem.
Joan helps individuals and photographers "create positive self-esteem experiences." With over a dozen years of experience as a photographer, psychiatric nurse, speaker, educator counselor and aesthetician, Joan will help you gain personal confidence, develop client relationships, and earn a positive reputation in your community. Her extensive knowledge, combined with a refreshing, honest and open-minded approach, makes Joan incredible and unique. She can teach you how to market yourself, new programs for your clients and innovative and exciting marketing ideas, along with the ability incredible photoshop techniques.
Joan's photographic interests began as a passion while she worked as a psychiatric nurse with acute adult psychiatry in a hospital setting, as well as having her own private practice in the community. She had a special interest in anorexic and bulimic issues. She developed a therapeutic technique that utilized her camera to storyboard the inner emotions of her clients. Starting with the inner child, and working up to confidence and self esteem / control issues in adulthood. She's discovered since giving up her private counseling practice, that these same techniques are incredibly effective in creating an environment of confidence and self esteem in clients. These techniques have made her one of the most successful portrait photography studios in Canada. She has worked for the past 4 years as house photographer for "Couture Fashion Week," in New York City. These events hosted at the iconic Waldorf Astoria/New Yorker and Times Square Crowne Plaza Hotels.
She accepted the role of creative art director for Spotlight Magazine. This allowed her to create an extensive portfolio of celebrity work and journalistic endeavors.
Joan has travelled extensively, loves to entertain, and is a bit of a foodie. Her other interests include charitable work with orphanages in Uganda, NILMDTS and organizations devoted to the abolishment of the sex slave trade. Whether she's speaking with an individual, a team, or a company, Joan has a knack for inspiring confidence, professionalism, and respect. A truly unique style translated into stunning art images . Her motto is simple, " Photography should illuminate not only the aesthetics of the subject, but it's true character as well."
Joan is an involved, proud and active member of the PPOC (Professional Photographers Association of Canada) as well as the PPA (Professional Photographers of America) as well as numerous other professional organizations

Sample Keynotes:

HeadShot Therapy 101

- Meeting the real you - NOT just the (Wo)Man in the Mirror

As a Psychiatric nurse , a counselor, Photographer and Beauty expert,

Joan will change the way you see yourself and your world. Her message can facilitate a huge increase in your self esteem & confidence, as well as your functional abilities, both in your home and in the workplace.

WEED OVER FORTY

Cannabis Use over Forty ("Weedover40" ) - Women, Weed and Wine: a Classy Contemplation on Cannabis Infused: Coffee, Cocktail parties & Recipes ...plus Wine & Weed pairing!

The world is beginning to acknowledge the important health benefits of the mighty Cannabis Plant. The prohibition of it has made this generation especially fearful of it's use. Joan explains the medical and psychological benefits, the science that makes it useful and shows how viable and useful it can be for assisting the over 40 generation to keep active and mobile even if chronic pain is a factor in their lives.

Joan take a sensitive and scary subject, and helps to reduce it to the basics, making it a humorous and fun discussion along the way!

FOR Photographers:

MAKING THE INTANGIBLE TANGIBLE

This is a keynote message or workshop tailored to fit those in the photography industry.

Conducting sessions that focus on "Self-Esteem Imagery Creation" is a fabulous photographic Therapeutic Technique for everyone.

Joan's session will take you for a walk down "Storyboarding Avenue"
This unique presentation will satiate curiosities about how to best reduce anxiety in clients via photo shoots.

How do you project judgments onto your clients that can increase their insecurities? Only 7% of communication is what we
say, and the words we use. We communicate 93% through unspoken facial expressions, tone of voice, and the projections of our very own soul. This is why people like or dislike us. People buy from people they like...They love the people who make them love themselves!

Photographers are performers, and we have to do so in the sales room.
These things affect your bottom line and carry an exorbitant price tag to your business. The time has come to bring a new level of confidence!
She will share observations and ideas that will outline this new breed of session. Joan will guide you effortlessly through the process of Illuminating the reality of the beauty of your clients, through her unique story-boarding techniques and by showing you how to create products that sell to your clients; celebrating a whole new level of confidence!
You will be excited by her relaxed and fun style that creates senior / boudoir and glamor shoots that really work for any client, large to super-small and everything in between.
Joan will also show you that creating community is a vastly untapped level of marketing for photographers.
Joan offers fun, useful, and invaluable tips for creating and marketing experiences to your clients. Joan also provides post session discussion techniques and guidelines that will enable you to confidently create imagery that tells the world that you know who your clients is in a unique and tangible way!!
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. - Charles Dickens

THE PINUP REDEFINED!
Joan has exciting and unique marketing and session ideas to share that the photographer can turn into cash as soon as they get home! Using the styles of Gil Elvgrin and Vargas, this artistic format creates an atmosphere of fun, rather than the fear the portrait sittings instill in women who are often worried about their bodies. Pinup photography is exciting and desirable to such a wide age range, all clients get excited over the templates and style that Joan has created. Photo Party sessions are making a huge comeback!
Learn to create and market sessions that build confidence and create lasting friendships for you with your clients and with each other .
This is the perfect environment for holiday and special occasion marketing. Come learn this fun way of energizing your portfolio and your bank account, while making great friends and clients for life!

FASHION AND RUNWAY PHOTOGRAPHY; THE IN'S and OUT'S of THE PITS! Photographers!
Learn the ropes from a seasoned/published and in demand House photographer of the International Fashion scene. Joan is not only able to teach you the in's and out's of the pits, but also is a representative for Heartland Modeling Agency International, and a trained makeup and hair artist. You will get the world of fashion in this class! This full day of both classroom and practical experience will culminate in you getting the chance to be comfortable both backstage, as well as in a real Photography Pit with real credentials for a fabulous fashion show! There will be models on the runway. Celebrity designers who have shown their works in the highest profile shows in New York City/LA and Las Vegas. They will also be talking about what they want in the photographers they hire!

I AM SO EXCITED TO BE HERE! PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOURSELF AS A PRO PHOTOGRAPHER
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. - Mary Anne Radmacher
It's not every day that people have the opportunity to hear a veteran Psychiatric Nurse share the valuable lessons she has learned about life. Joan Bateman spent nearly two decades exploring the issues that cause us to be vulnerable, lack confidence, and create depression. Joan has seen too many people pay the price of self deprecating personal viewpoints. Nothing is off limits in this frank and inspirational keynote, and the audience will be moved to take personal responsibility for the creation of imagery, and experiences, that leave their clients with a whole new sense of inner strength and external confidence in themselves.

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