
Executive Director at Local Search Heroes
Calgary, Canada Area

Executive Director at Local Search Heroes
Calgary, Canada Area
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Stephen James Joyce is an accomplished bestselling author, coach and speaker on the topics of collaborative intelligence, collaborative leadership and employee retention.
Stephens’s overall goal is to be a more effective human being. He sees no difference in the importance of personal and professional development, each enhances the other.
CEO - Eldercare ABC an online support community for those caring for an aging parent.
A PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER – has delivered hundreds of presentations across Canada, USA and in Europe. His clients include the Project Management Institute (PMI), Ideas Arabia Conference and Public Relations Professionals Conference.
A WRITER/ AUTHOR – the author of the best seller 'Teaching an Anthill to Fetch: Developing Collaborative Intelligence @ Work' and many articles for professional journals and newsletters.
A CONSULTANT – has acted as the 'resiliency content expert' for one of Canada largest health care regions. He has also redesigned and implemented the overhaul of a customer service program for a large asset management company. He is always looking for the practical application of knowledge rather than just knowledge for knowledge's sake. He walks his talk - i.e. He talks about changing the way we relate to knowledge and the effects this can have on our creativity and flexibility as a species. He backed this up by publishing his book under a creative commons licence.
A FACILITATOR: has extensive experience in group facilitation. Long (3 days +) intensive events as well as 2-4 hour sessions. Has planned and executed events for groups in excess of 700.
CERTIFIED TRAINER: using methods and processes from many areas including; improv, group dynamics, NLP, accelerated learning, communication theory, psychotherapy, story-telling and visual facilitation.
B.Sc. (Hon.s) , Applied Psychology , 1980 — 1984
my life as a work in progress, developing my capacity for compassion (life-long thing), collaborative intelligence, community development,writing,volunteerism, travelling, music
Professional Member- Canadian Association of Professional Speakers
Past Vice President of the Calgary Chapter CSTD (Canadian Society for Training Development)
Board of Directors Community Futures Center West (Alberta)
Board member- committee for Airdrie's 'People Place Project'
Member- Human Resources Center of Calgary
Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award
Certificate of Appreciation - Dubai Quality Group (2007)
NLP Training Consultancy Certificate
Master Practitioner NLP
Diploma: Solution Focused Therapy
Ericksonian Hypnosis Accreditation