Joe Alves has approximately 33 years of learning and development experience. He works with organizations, teams and individuals to engage, support and provide opportunities for increasing the capacity to perform. He has worked with organizations ranging in size of 6 to 75,000 employees. He is known for his positive approach with excellent questioning skills to assist individuals in looking at themselves first in where they are now and second where they need to be. This self exploration then sets the stage for true development and exploration of new attitudes and behaviors that are everlasting and lead to visible increases in effectiveness. His most notable accomplishments include:


Developed an award winning Management Development Program for the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC). By using the strengths and gifts of the team he managed, the Management Development Program resulted in tremendous growth of management skills as shown in a yearly Survey of Organizational Excellence administered by the University of Texas. After 2 years from implementation of this program, front–line employees gave major increases in key effectiveness areas. The increase range from 33 to 76 point increase on a 400 point scale. One of the key components of this program was coaching and mentoring of individuals in management positions.


 


Partnered with Insights Learning and Development to develop the Insights Transformational Leadership Program. This program is considered one of the top global leadership learning programs for Fortune 100 Global Companies.


 


He currently works with local and global organizations such as Luminex Corp., ALS Association, Colorado Access, Intuit, MailChimp, University of Vermont Medical System, Warren Cat Equipment, City of Cedar Park, Paradromics, Aiqueous, IBC Bank, and Dell Foundation. The primary focus of this work is Individual and Team Effectiveness, Sales, Leadership Effectiveness and Executive Coaching.

Licenses:
Insights Leaning & Development:

Discovery Programs
Sales Effectiveness Program
Transformation Leadership Program
Thriving Through Change
Team Effectiveness
Self-Aware Leader Program

Others:

DISC
The Five Disfunctions of a Team