Chef Joanne Steenberg
Joanne Steenberg, certified raw food chef and teacher, is a change-agent for people and organizations ready to transform their lives into healthy, creative, fulfilling experiences. Joanne has a rich background as well as life-long involvement with innovative education, business development, healthy living and personal growth.
As Founder and President of Positive RawPower, Joanne shares the benefits of a raw food lifestyle with people of all ages, creating and delivering programs that teach people how to bring the power of raw foods—and the power of their own amazing potential—into their lives in an easy, accessible and effortless way. Early in her 25-year career, Joanne established herself as a successful business entrepreneur and an award-winning sales and marketing professional. She started her first company, Dragonfly Sailboats, Inc. marketing and selling a unique line of trimarans in North America, winning several nautical industry awards and hitting a revenue high of $1.7 million annually before selling her company.
As an educator in public middle schools and high schools, Waldorf elementary schools and adult programs, Joanne has been recognized as a creative and connected teacher. She loves to bring knowledge and resources to people in a way that deeply inspires them. A certified Sivananda Yoga instructor and healthy living coach, Joanne is most in her element when she is connecting possibility with the people who need it the most.
Joanne creates and leads trans-formative courses and retreats, empowering people of all ages to bring more healthful ways of being into their lives and to access the power of a positive mind. She has been trained by Alissa Cohen, author of Living on Live food, and has worked along side her assisting in her training programs. Joanne has also worked with famed Raw Food chef, Matthew Kenney.