Face2Face Mission: To learn cutting-edge job search methods. To provide a positive place to networking not only between jobs but while in a job. To coach in better, easier ways of networking. To challenge job seekers to "work smart" in their search. To use technology in a crucial support role.

Face2Face Guiding Principle: To respect the inherent worth and dignity of each person.

Status: Face2Face is an organization owned by Joanne Meehl Career Services. Proceeds from any meeting go toward paying expenses or investing in additional services for members.

Your Facilitator: Joanne Meehl facilitates the F2F Wayzata meetings. She is the lead principal of Joanne Meehl Career Services and has over 20 years helping literally thousands of people in job transition. For two years (2003-2005), Joanne Meehl was facilitator of WIND West in Westboro, Mass., which grew to over 40 job seeking professionals attending each week, even as the economy was getting stronger –- because smart job candidates recognize the value of face-to-face networking. For over three years, she was a Career Consultant with Lee Hecht Harrison, on their Raytheon Project. Earlier, while a Career Specialist at federally-funded Career Center, she was first called "The Resume Queen". Joanne is a Certified International Job and Career Development Coach, and a qualified (certified) Myers-Briggs practitioner.

The role of Facilitator at any and all Face2Face meetings is to:

• Ensure that all attendees are “heard”, and are treated with respect and dignity
• Ensure that the meeting is set up in such as way as to encourage participation and, of course, networking
• To keep the meeting moving and on track
• To recruit volunteers from among members and recognize their contributions
• Secure excellent speakers
• Communicate dates and times of meetings so that there's strong attendance
• Publicize each meeting to the general media
• Publicize each meeting to outplacement companies, career coaches, and others so that they send their clients to the meetings for you to meet and network with
• To be the liaison to the hosting facility
• Pay the bills
• Work with the webmaster in developing and maintaining a supportive and continually refreshed web site
• To resolve problems as they arise, so that Face2Face can pursue its mission in helping you get to your next job

In January of 2009, Joanne launched Face2Face for professionals in job search in the Minneapolis metro area because there was a need for this kind of format. The group regularly has 55-85 attendees at each meeting.

History: Joanne Meehl facilitated the WIND West (“Wednesday Is Networking Day”) job search networking group for professionals in Westborough, Mass., from 2003-2005. In 2004, Joanne founded Face2Face, a job search networking group for professionals in central Massachusetts. The area had experienced tremendous growth in the late 1990s and needed this service. This group met until early 2008, when Joanne moved to Minnesota with her husband to be closer to family. She moved her career coaching business and Face2Face as well.