Joyce Avedisian, Ph.D.

Joyce Avedisian is a Senior Consultant at the Hayes Group. She has over 25 years consulting and training experience in building the capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations to execute growth strategies. She has helped leaders in large and small organizations realize results by integrating strategic vision of the future with strong operational focus. She helps clients define the gap between the vision and current reality and develop solutions in the areas of skill and competency development, process improvement, high performance teams, leadership training, employee engagement, and culture formation.

Joyce applies her vast experience within organizations and her knowledge of leadership to her coaching expertise, enabling her coaching clients to become the best they can be in whatever endeavor they are engaged.  Joyce also is a huge proponent of Servant Leadership, and has gained and applied much knowledge regarding that construct.

Prior to joining The Hayes Group International, Joyce was an internal consultant and independent consultant with global Fortune 100 clients and growing entrepreneurial companies in the areas of pharmaceuticals, healthcare, financial services, transportation, manufacturing, telecommunications, information technology, and retail services.

Joyce holds a Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from Brandeis University. Her doctoral studies focused on how the paradigm of the consultant impacts the change strategy and performance results. She has published articles in the areas of managing change and culture formation.