Joan Mogul Garrity is a trainer who is known for her highly engaging and extremely practical workshop presentations. Joan's focus is on providing concrete, usable strategies and tools that participants can immediately apply to their work.

With a thirty-year background of both direct service delivery and training of health care, social service, and education professionals, Joan is uniquely qualified to help participants feel more competent and comfortable in doing their work.

Her career has taken her from clinic volunteer, to director of counseling for Planned Parenthood of Maryland, to the primary creator of a series of curricula developed for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in their fight against the HIV epidemic.  Her conceptual model of behavior change synthesizes all current theories into a process that is useful and accessible. She is author or co-author of over 20 publications, including articles, books and curricula.  From the Philippines to Russia, and throughout the United States, she has presented her simple strategies for difficult communication to rave reviews.  In hundreds of workshop presentations, participants have reported that these techniques make the theoretical practical. 

Joan is the 2007 recipient of the "Mary Lee Tatum Award." This award is given by the Association for Planned Parenthood Leaders in Education (APPLE). It is the highest honor given by APPLE, as it recognizes individuals who, like Mary Lee Tatum, "exemplify the characteristics of an ideal sexuality educator."