Joni serves as President of Aileron, a national small business training institute, headquartered just outside of Dayton. Her leadership and energy inspires and motivates the Aileron team and the community as they strive to raise the quality of life, one private business at a time. At Aileron, business owners, presidents and CEOs take classes on leadership, business culture, strategy, advisory board development and transition planning. One of the country’s preeminent think tanks, the campus is credited for improving countless businesses across the country.

As a past business owner, Joni understands the risks, rewards and challenges that ownership and professional management bring. She had the opportunity at Iams as a Brand Manager to live in a professionally managed organization where she saw first-hand how strategy, strong leadership and culture can fuel a company to do great things. After Iams, Joni co-founded a technology services company and became an Aileron client herself, taking the renowned Course for Presidents, establishing an outside Board of Directors and utilizing strategic planning. The company grew from 2 to 100 employees in five years, was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Cincinnati Entrepreneur of the Year award and was named by the Cincinnati Business Courier as one of the 25 fastest growing companies in the region.

Joni has been honored with Dayton Business Journal’s "Forty Under Forty" award and also been named one of Dayton’s 50 Most Influential Women.