Joann Cole Webster is a writer, communicator, non-profit executive, and Vice President of Christian
Men’s Network, founded by her late father Edwin Louis Cole. CMN provides tools for
men’s ministry to 137 nations to help solve pandemic fatherlessness, child abuse,
and human trafficking. She met Oral Roberts in various meetings, and has served ministries
such as Trinity Broadcasting Network, Life Today with James Robison, Global Pastors
Network founded by Dr. Bill Bright, and Christ for All Nations with Reinhard Bonnke.
She has edited, written, ghostwritten, or published more than 50 books with millions
in print in over 40 languages. After graduating summa cum laude from Vanguard University,
Joann completed Stanford’s Professional Publishing Course and Southern Methodist University’s
creative writing program. She served for two years as a missionary to Japan, then
became the General Manager for her brother Paul Louis Cole’s marketing company that
helped launch diverse projects including Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid, Beverly LaHaye’s
Concerned Women for America, Paramount Films’ Crocodile Dundee and North American
tourism for the Government of Israel. In media, Joann has conceptualized, developed,
and written hundreds of television programs, radio shows, articles, and marketing
collateral for her family’s work and for leaders such as John Maxwell, Kenneth Copeland,
Ray Johnston, Leonard Sweet, and Johnnie Moore. Following her father’s death, she
published and sold more than one million of his books. In ministry, she has organized
leaders’ conferences throughout the US, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia with
representatives from most major denominations, featuring leaders from T.D. Jakes to
Mark Burnett, Leon Fontaine, Victoria Osteen, and Mel Gibson. Joann also presides
over a church-planting non-profit founded by her grandmother. She and her husband
live in Florida. Joann has taken her grandchildren to all 50 states.
