Joe Healey

Joe Healey Speaker Biography

Joe Healey's life and work were featured in the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal writer, Sue Shellenbarger, called Joe Healey a “pioneer and renaissance man whose content is filled with distilled wisdom.” His coaching/consulting advice was so beneficial that clients twice asked Joe to switch from being their consultant/coach to running the company by becoming their CEO or General Manager.

Joe is currently in his fourth year of turning around a 28-year old technology company. Under Joe's leadership this employee owned company went from stagnation to launching a new product line, two record profit years and one record sales year. His management team achieved this by engaging employees to focus on investing in real customer needs and revamped service and product quality. This was all done in the midst of the 2008 to 2012 economic crisis.

Joe is the author of “Radical Trust: How Today’s Great Leaders Convert People to Partners” (NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2007). His speaking style is as on-fire as his change-management style. Journalists voted Joe the "2000 World's Best Presenter" at a unique international competition. His story telling ability on stage and in the boardroom brings his actionable ideas to life for audiences. 

The turn around of this recent company not only fueled success with customers and profits, but enabled this employee owned company to fund its ESOP retirement plan at record levels to insure that this company will be around for years to serve its customers. This same sincere passion Joe has for success in business and personal realms translates to audiences with an inspiring speaking style full of amazing experience-based stories. 
In his early years Joe worked in the trenches as an entrepreneur and with Fortune 500-companies as a banker. Over the past 20-years as an expert on leadership and change Joe has spoken at conferences and companies on four continents and all 50 US States.

His story-telling is woven from a fabric that includes vast business experience and a unique personal life which includes his role as a devoted husband and father. One of his adventures includes Joe, his wife Jill, and their three children settling into a customized motorhome for 18-months of exploring. They traveled, schooled, and discovered together venturing through 44 states and into Mexico and Canada.
Joe lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia with his family.