Joan Baker

Joan Baker Joan Baker is a widely known and very highly regarded talent throughout the voice-over industry, and she enjoys performing in front of the camera as well. Joan is an Obie Award-winning stage actress, with numerous film, television, and on-camera commercials to her credit. She’s also author of Secrets of Voice-Over Success. Joan’s professional voice-over credits include: The Muhammad Ali Center 2004 Olympic TV Campaign, narrating a documentary about the founding of the William Jefferson Clinton Library, now a part of the library’s permanent display and was tapped for a marketing campaign promoting The ABC Super Sign in Times Square. Other clients include: King World, ESPN, ABC NEWS, BLOOMBERG TV and radio, SHOWTIME, HBO, NBA Entertainment, COURT TV, Imus in the Morning, American Red Cross, Olay, Lens Express, Sony Music, JP Morgan Chase, American Express, Costco, The New York Times Classified and others. Joan has lent her voice as the live show announcer for The Vision Awards at the Beverly Hilton, NAMIC conferences, The Annual Matrix Awards for Women in Cable at New York’s Waldorf Astoria and for the television industry’s annual PROMAX/BDA Conference’s. She has been featured in Interview Magazine, Adweek, Backstage, The NY Post, Media Week, Cable World, The Daily News, Jet, Post Magazine and Black Enterprise. Also on Weekend Vibe, SHOWBIZ Today on CNN, Oprah & Friends, ABC News Now and E! News. She is represented exclusively by Innovative Artists. In addition to her successful voice-over career, Joan has for more than ten years taught speech and voice-over technique at The Learning Annex ( NY & LA), The Actors Institute (NYC), Acting Management (NYC), The Professional Performing Arts School (NYC), Western Kentucky University (KY), and New York University (NYC) A much sought after educator, she is responsible for training a respectable number of new voice talents entering the voice-over field each year, and provides private voice coaching for Fortune 500 CEOs and Executives seeking to enhance their public speaking skills for stage and on-camera. Among her list of clients are the late Johnnie Cochran and CNN’S/ Court TV’s Nancy Grace. Joan also oversees new business development as senior vice president of public relations for Manhattan-based advertising firm Push Creative, a company she co-founded in January 2000 with her partner. Having always been a sort of hired-gun entrepreneur, Joan is right at home juggling her performance career while taking on the new challenges of running a company. And her contributions have not gone unnoticed between the years 2003-2007, she won three PROMAX/BDA Awards for two TV campaigns she co-produced for SPIKE TV. She also won a Gold Promax/BDA and two Excellence in Multi-Cultural Marketing Awards and three Telly Awards for a series of spots she co-produced for Black History Month. Posh Goddess Spotlight on Joan:

What does it mean and take to be a successful business woman today?

"Being a successful business women is being clear about who you are going to be as a person, as a provider of services and as an employer. The more willing you are to know yourself as a women and a human being -- the more willing you are to assess your strengths and opportunities for growth, the easier it is to commit to something bigger than you know yourself to be. My entire life has been on the entrepreneurial side: first as a professional actor/dancer and teacher, and now as one of two principles in a thriving ad agency. Throughout all of my career, the single guiding principle have been expanding my natural ability to engage people, to network effectively while keeping a clear and disciplined focus my business goals. "

Joan's Posh Goddess words of wisdom on conducting business in a so-called man's world:

"The last thing to do is focus on- that it’s a “man’s world”-true or not. The first thing to focus on - is always, always seeking to uncover the best part of yourself. And with that your premier focus- the most special part of all is that you get the incredible adulation and respect( of men too) that you so deserve for being the loving human being that you are, making a difference in the world."

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Joan Baker Company

Push Creative Advertising/ Voice-over teaching business /Author. Position/Job Title

SVP Public Relations/ Voice –over Artists/ VO teacher/Coach. Location

42 Broadway, suite 1135, NYC, NY 10004 Website

www.pushcreative.tv & www.joanbaker.tv