Joan Steidinger, Ph.D., Clinical Sports Psychologist; Author, Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete

“Why can’t you be more like men?” is a common refrain heard by women who show emotion in work and sport. Yet “Women are not small men!” says Alison Dunlap, world champion & Olympic cyclist. Dr. Joan Steidinger agrees and believes that sisterhood among women is essential for them to achieve full success in life.

How important and in what manner are relationships essential to women? What role does verbal and detailed communication play? What about a sense of community is so critical to women? Clinical sports psychologist and award-winning author Dr. Steidinger will explore these questions and more and introduce her new model of female collaborative competition.

Her book won the sports category in the Beverly Hills Book Awards and is a finalist in the women's category of Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards.