Joyce Gioia-Herman is a Strategic Business Futurist concentrating on workforce and workplace trends. Joyce is President and CEO 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 45 states.

Focusing on what will be valuable for her clients and audiences, Joyce tailors her messages to what is most needed with an emphasis on take-home value, practical tactics and strategies that can be put to work right away. To reach an even wider audience, Joyce has authored five books. These books are focused on what employers must do to attract, optimize, and hold onto their best employees. Joyce approaches Human Resources from an Internal Marketing perspective, taking external marketing concepts and strategies and applying them within the organization.

A respected professional speaker and consultant, Joyce has earned the designation Certified Management Consultant, the highest certification granted by The Institute of Management Consultants. She also earned the coveted Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association. Joyce contributed a regular column to various business journals, as well as Sky, Delta Airlines' award-winning in-flight magazine. She is also CEO of Employer of Choice, Inc., the organization that certifies employers as Employers of Choice®.

Often quoted in media, like Industry Week, The Christian Science Monitor, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business Week, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and on National Public Radio, Joyce is recognized as one who not only knows what's coming, but can communicate that future very effectively. She has also appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows and was featured in an episode of New Attitudes on the Lifetime Cable Network. Joyce is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East, and the International Who's Who of Business Executives.

Joyce's career includes a wide variety of industries and fields, including hard goods, soft goods, wholesale, retail, and direct marketing. After founding her first company at the tender age of 14, later at the age of 28, she was the youngest magazine publisher in the country, publishing The Complete Buyers Guide to Stereo/Hi-Fi Equipment for Service Communications Ltd.

Education

• BA, the University of Denver, Major
  --Communications and Languages, 1967.
• MBA, Fordham University, 1976.

Positions currently held

• President/CEO, The Herman Group
• CEO, Employer of Choice, Inc.
• Publisher of Weekly FREE Herman Trend Alerts
• Contributing Editor for Workforce and Workplace,
  The Futurist Magazine

Designations:

• Certified Management Consultant, by the Institute of Management Consultants
• Certified Speaking Professional, by the National Speakers Association

Memberships

• Founding Member, Association of Professional Futurists
• World Future Society (Professional Member)
• American Society for Training and Development
• National Speakers Association (Professional Member)
• Institute of Management Consultants

Author

• Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People (2003)
• How to Become an Employer of Choice (2000)
• Workforce Stability: Your Competitive Edge (2000)
• Lean & Meaningful: A New Culture for Corporate America (1998)
• How to Choose your Next Employer (2000)