www.jesteeleconsulting.com

jesteeleconsulting@yahoo.com

Phone/Fax: 518-851-3378    Cell: 917-548-6906 Skype: JES3334

OVERVIEW

For over 20 years, Joe Steele has been consulting to corporations, non-profits, and governmental agencies on strategically managing their human resource needs to perform in the rapidly evolving global economy. He does executive coaching and team building for senior and middle management focusing on leadership, career development and navigating organizational culture. Joe designs and facilitates workshops for management and non-management dealing with the challenges of communicating cross-culturally to more effectively engage as diverse individuals and team members in the workplace. In addition, he does the design and implementation for formal mentoring programs to nurture talent development. Joe also has extensive experiences in advising GLBT and People of Color employee affinity groups, global diversity councils, and Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Teams about how to align and support the organization’s values, mission, and strategy. For assessment purposes, Joe conducts climate surveys of the work environment identifying strengths and areas for improvement to get input from a myriad of stakeholders to enroll the workforce in adapting to the changing needs of the global economy. He also reviews employment policies and practices to identify strengths and challenges possibly impacting D&I initiatives. 

Joe has delivered his services throughout the United States, England/Scotland, Canada, Australia, United Arab Emirates, China, and Brazil. Joe is conversant in Portuguese. 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Executive Coaching * Retreat Facilitation for Strategy Sessions & Project Planning * Diversity and Inclusion Strategy Initiatives and Design and Delivery of Workshops * Organizational Climate Research (Focus Groups, Interviews, Surveys) *Global Team Building  * Group Process Consultation and Facilitation • Leadership and Management Development  • Giving and Receiving Difficult Feedback * Cross-Cultural Communications including developing cultural competencies • Conflict Resolution * Emotional Intelligence Skills Building and Applications

SELECTED LIST OF CLIENTS SERVED

Corporations: AT&T * BP Oil and Gas • B of NY Mellon Dreyfus *Deloitte & Touche * Eli Lilly * Goldman Sachs * JP Morgan Chase •Johnson & Johnson * M&T Bank *Novartis Pharmaceuticals * Procter & Gamble * Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Government and Non-Profits:  States of Maryland, New York, Michigan, California, Louisiana, and New Mexico – School Based Health Centers • Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. * US Agency for International Development * Advocates for Children of New York W.K. Kellogg Foundation * Oxfam America  * Annie E Casey Foundation  * Boston College * University of Wisconsin

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

·      Masters in Business Administration, Harvard University

·      Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Harvard University

·        Certified to deliver the Emotional Intelligence coaching using the Hay Group assessment tools. Also, experienced in facilitating Situational Leadership, Bolton and Bolton Social Styles, Thomas Kilman Conflict Model, and McClelland’s Motivation Assessment. 

SELECT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Fortune 100 Consumer Products Co.– This 2 year assignment involved global team building for a research development group (35 members) from the Health and Beauty Care Division. Team members were located in the U.S., China, and the U.K. The R&D efforts for these products were being centralized in either the UK or China, with extensive coordination and design support coming from the headquarters in the U.S. The upfront and ongoing team building efforts resulted in several products being launched 6-9 months ahead of schedule. And, because of this success, this team building process design has been replicated within other divisions of the company. This project required me to visit China for 1-2 week stays 4 times.

School Based Health Centers – Over a 5 year period, Joe worked with 12 sites across the U.S. which had been funded by a major corporate foundation) to provide extensive youth and community leadership development training to make these leaders more effective in determining, negotiating, and utilizing the health care services being provided by FQHCs, state, and local health care providers within School Based Health Centers.  He also actively participated in helping to build strong and authentic relationships and coalitions among the relevant and quite diverse stakeholders to shape relevant health and education policies along with developing skills to influence policy advocacy initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels.

Global Investment Bank – For 2 years, Joe developed and facilitated teambuilding workshops for new associates in New York. Each incoming class had approximately 40 associates. The design included simulated exercises and doing  “Ropes Courses” to develop skills in team participation, time management, and project planning.  As a result of this upfront development of the associates’ competencies, their “on-boarding” process went much quicker and smoother, enabling these associates to become more productive members of their assigned teams in a much shorter time frame than previous incoming classes. Working with the client, he then designed and delivered a Train-the-Trainer workshop to develop the internal trainers to deliver these ”on-boarding” workshops for future incoming classes of associates in the U.S., as well as the UK and Asia.

Global Oil and Gas Co. – Over a 4 year period, Joe worked on a project team doing leadership development and change/transition management workshops for the company's management teams along with individual contributors in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. Much of the work focused on blending the recently acquired workgroups from several mergers into the newly combined global work teams.