Dr. Joseph is a Distinguished Scholar in Nursing, Clinical Professor, and the Director of the DNP and MSN, Health Systems/Administration/Leadership Programs at the University of Iowa College of Nursing. She currently serves on the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) Foundation Board of Directors and co-leads the Nursing Leadership and System Science Council a collaboration between AONL Foundation and the Association for Leadership Science in Nursing. 

Prior to joining the University of Iowa, Dr. Joseph worked in roles that were entrepreneurially oriented and partnered with industry and inter disciplines, to fund and develop programming for interdisciplinary education and research. 

She is a fellow in both the American Academy of Nursing and The American Organization for Nursing Leadership. Dr. Joseph’s areas of expertise are innovativeness, leadership effectiveness, and the General Effectiveness Multilevel Theory for Shared Governance, the only theory-based program for shared governance implementation in nursing practice.