Joan Steuer is one of America's foremost authorities on Chocolate and a leading expert on trends and new products.

For the past twenty years, Joan has created a career from her passion for Chocolate.

She is a highly respected go-to media source on all things chocolate, a frequent speaker for the chocolate industry, and one of the first inductees into the Chocolate Hall of Fame.

Known for her abundant energy, passion and creativity, Joan has inspired information-seeking chocolate lovers in nearly every city in the U.S. with her numerous Chocolate Trends & Tasting Talks and her magazine articles and website content on nearly every aspect of chocolate aimed at educating the novice chocolate lover as well as the sophisticated connoisseur.

Joan is also the founding editor of Chocolatier magazine and has co-authored two cookbooks, Best-Ever Brownies and Marshall Field's Frango Chocolate Cookbook.

In 1987, she founded Chocolate Marketing, LLC to share her knowledge and help companies, from chocolate artisan start-ups to global Fortune 100’s, navigate their way in the world of chocolate.

Joan has appeared on many national television shows including Good Morning America, CNN, and Live with Regis, and has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. According to The Washington Post, "Steuer is a chocolate philosopher." People magazine dipped Joan in chocolate for a three-page feature which claimed, "If you are what you eat, then Joan Steuer is a chocolate mousse cake."

As a renowned expert in the chocolate industry, Joan is at the forefront of chocolate trends, has an uncanny ability to predict where chocolate is headed next, and has often been called "America's Leading Chocolate Guru".