Joyce Gioia Speaker Biography
Strategic Business Futurist and Renowned Leadership & Innovation Expert
Joyce Gioia is a Strategic Business Futurist concentrating on relationship aspects of the future. This arena includes workforce and workplace trends, as well as consumer, education, and business-to-business trends. Joyce is President of The Herman Group, a firm serving a wide range corporate, trade association and governmental clients on an international basis. Through consulting, speaking and training, Joyce helps clients position themselves for success in the future. Joyce has served clients on six continents and in 43 states.
Early Career
Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, she started her first business at the age of 14, Jack & Jill Parties for Children. At the age of 28, Joyce was the youngest national magazine publisher in the world for The Complete Buyers Guide to Stereo/Hi-Fi Equipment. Her diverse background includes Wholesale, Retail, Direct Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Marketing and Advertising, and Human Resources. Joyce brings to the table all of her wisdom and knowledge about what works, what doesn’t, and why.
TED Talk Speaker
Joyce delivered her first TED Talk at TEDx Hastings Street in Napier, New Zealand. Titled “Creating a Culture of Caring,” the well-received presentation started with the origin of caring and proceeded through life and into the workplace. Joyce has appeared on local and national television over 70 times in the US, New Zealand, and Ghana, talking about the future, travel tips, and her unique perspectives. Her new TV show, “It’s Your Future with Joyce Gioia,” appears on the Futures Television Channel of Apple and Roku.tv. Her Futures Shorts appear weekly on YouTube.com, as well as FuturesRadio.com.
Books
Her latest and first solo book is Experience Rules: How Positive Experiences Will Drive Profit Into The Future. Her other published works include Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People, How to Become an Employer of Choice, Lean & Meaningful: A New Culture for Corporate America, How to Choose your Next Employer, and Workforce Stability: Your Competitive Edge.
Honors and Awards
Along the way, Joyce has received many honors. In FORBES, she was named one of the top women futurists in the world. At the Harvard Business Expert Forum, she received the Celebrity Futurist Award. And USA TODAY named her their First (and only) Road Warrior of the Year. Joyce also received a Silver Folio award for her work with Chocolatier Magazine. In 2020, Joyce was inducted into The Consulting Hall of Fame.
Annual Workforce-Workplace Forecast
In addition, Joyce has written hundreds of articles for trade publications, authored numerous white papers for clients, and every year, issues her Annual Workforce-Workplace Forecast, detailing the coming issues that Human Resources and C-Level Executives need to heed to optimize their success in the future.
Joyce Gioia Speaking Topics
Optimize your Future!
Position yourself for success by knowing what’s coming. This informational and inspirational program will help you learn about the implications of future trends, how people and organizations will be affected, and how you can take advantage of what’s coming. This motivational look into the future is tailored to the audience and may cover any combination of trend categories, including Economic, Demographic, Workforce/Workplace, Education, Societal, Technological, or others.
Capitalizing on the Workforce Crisis to Win the War for Talent
Top executives in the United States and elsewhere today don’t have a clue about the difficulty their human resources and recruiting professionals have filling skilled positions. Mission critical jobs remain unfilled for months and sometimes, years, while the search continues. As the economy recovers, this situation will make the late 90s seem like a practice session! This presentation not only includes detailed information about the magnitude of the problem, but also covers easy-to-implement solutions as well. Based on the bestselling business book, Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People.
Making Work Lean and Meaningful
Critical labor shortages and lack of trained workers are forcing employers to shift their organizations to a more "lean and meaningful" culture. Based on the popular article from The Futurist Magazine, this valuable seminar gives attendees dozens of practical ideas for retention that may be put into practice right away. Based on the popular business book, Lean & Meaningful: A New Culture for Corporate America.
Becoming an Employer of Choice
High turnover. Increased competition. Employees are now in the driver's seat. This high-content, practical program will teach you what employees are really looking for and how to be the employer that workers choose. Includes best practices from Employer of Choice® organizations. Based on the bestselling business book, How to Become an Employer of Choice.
Employee Retention for the 21st Century
Ready to gain your competitive edge? Throwing money at employees will not earn their loyalty; appreciating and engaging them will. More than simplistic lip service, participants will learn time-tested, no-cost and low-cost strategies to reduce turnover and build productivity. Based on the bestselling business book, Keeping Good People.
Generations: A Tossed Salad in the Workplace
For the first time in history, we have four generations in our workplace simultaneously. The composition of our workforce drives corporate behavior and performance, so it really helps to understand who people are and why they do what they do. Audiences enjoy this highly educational, yet fun, presentation of the World War II generation, the Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Why, the Baby Boom Echo, and the Millennials. What a tossed salad! Thought-provoking insights from a futurist who specializes in workforce trends. Discover how generational influences will cause even more unprecedented challenges in the workplace.
Joyce Gioia Books
Experience Rules: How Positive Experiences Will Drive Profit into the Future
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Lean & Meaningful : A New Culture for Corporate America
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How to Become an Employer of Choice
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Workforce Stability, Your Competitive Edge
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Joyce Gioia Speaker Testimonials
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Employment Practices Network, I would like to express our appreciation to you for a very informative program… I have received numerous emails from attendees with very positive feedback about your program, including the subject matter as well as your dynamic presentation style. Several of our members commented that the data included in your presentation was very beneficial to specific initiatives currently ongoing in their organizations. It was a great pleasure to meet you…
- Deborah Hays, Vice President | Missouri Gas Energy
I would like to extend our gratitude for the wonderful keynote presentation you delivered at our annual conference. Your presentation was very well received. The reviews from the participants were very positive and they felt they walked away with some excellent knowledge. Thank you for your professional presentation and your willingness to support our human resource profession.
- Colin Adams, Vice President, Education | Buffalo Niagara Human Resource Association
Your success as a keynoter was evident by the standing-room-only crowd for your breakout session on “How to Become an Employer of Choice.” Your expertise and insights were valuable to our conference attendees and your sincerity and concern for their professional success was evident throughout your presentations. We were impressed by the high level of audience engagement in both presentations. What a difference YOUR style makes from a typical information dump program, where a presenter simply narrates. . . It was a distinct pleasure to work with you. You definitely MADE A DIFFERENCE for us, Joyce!
- Deneen A. Costa, SPHR. Director | Illinois State Council of SHRM
Our business and industry clients had nothing but rave reviews following your afternoon session. I believe “Capitalizing on the Impending Crisis” is vital to each of our clients’ future business success. The information you delivered to our instructional staff and business and industry division could not have been more on target. You did a tremendous job! The meetings were a huge success!
- Andrea Kelly, Ed.D. Superintendent/CEO | Meridian Technology Center
