Joe Tye

Joe Tye's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Joe Tye is "America's Values Coach". He is a nationally recognized speaker on values-based life and leadership skills. Joe Tye has worked with organizations across North America to help them cultivate a more positive and productive workplace environment, and with thousands of individuals to help them achieve their goals by living their values, with his trademark curriculum on The Twelve Core Action Values.

Joe Tye is the author of several books, including the international bestseller Never Fear, Never Quit: A Story of Courage and Perseverance, and more than a dozen audio programs. Joe Tye also produces Spark Plug, an electronic publication with international circulation, and his group coaching service currently has members from 33 states and seven other countries.

Joe Tye earned a Masters degree in Hospital and Health Administration from The University of Iowa and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was class co-president. As Chief Operating Officer for a 750-bed hospital, Joe Tye helped guide multiple initiatives that substantially increased volume, revenue, morale, and that laid the foundation for record-breaking operating and financial performance in subsequent years.

A dynamic, passionate, and effective speaker who also has fun with his audiences, Joe Tye has presented for organizations as diverse as: Auto-Owners Insurance Company, Yellow Book USA, Medical Group Management Association, the U.S. National Park Service, MCI, the Planetree Alliance, and the Kansas Health Foundation Leadership Institute.

More About Joe Tye . . .
Joe Tye oversaw development of one of the nation's leading hospital-based emergency medical services programs, and was founding president of the Association of Air Medical Services. As founder of the nonprofit organization STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco) Joe Tye was a leading activist in the fight against unethical tobacco industry practices, especially those targeting children. His work was featured in publications ranging from JAMA to The Wall Street Journal, as well as in the Pulitzer Prize winning book Ashes to Ashes.

Today, Joe Tye's purpose is to help people re-spark the spirit of mission in their work and the spirit of adventure in their lives, and to help organizations tap into the invisible treasure of that spirit in the hearts of their people.
Joe Tye is one of the generative leaders profiled by Michael Ray in his book The Highest Goal, and has also been a guest speaker for Professor Ray's Creativity in Business class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

• From a Culture of Accountability to a Culture of Ownership

  Nobody ever changes the oil in a rental car! Moving from a culture of accountability (holding people's feet to the fire) to a culture of ownership (inspiring people to walk across hot coals) is one of the most important investments you can make in your hospital today. Many of the left-brain techniques that have been the focus of improving hospital operations have reached a point of diminishing returns. It's important that we keep doing these things, but because everyone else is doing many of the same things, they no longer create a sustainable source of competitive differentiation. Joe presents practical and proven strategies for earning staff loyalty and ownership, gained from over a dozen years of experience with Values Coach clients across North America. (Available for keynote presentation, breakout session, and leadership retreat.)

• Designing the Invisible Architecture of Your Organization

  Most leaders give extravagant attention to the design of the physical facilities, but it's the "invisible architecture" that creates lasting impressions on both patients and staff. Employing the metaphor of architectural design, this presentation shares strategies for designing and building the invisible structure of core values, corporate culture, and workplace environment to create a sustainable source of competitive advantage, foster employee ownership, and earn long-term loyalty. (Available for keynote presentation, breakout session, and leadership retreat.)

• Communicating to Convey, Connect, Convince, and Care

  The ability to communicate well is an essential leadership skill, but most managers have never learned how to do it. This entertaining and eye-opening program teaches listeners how the words they use, the pictures they paint, and the stories they tell determine whether and how their message is received, or if it is received at all. (Available for keynote presentation, breakout session, and leadership retreat.)

• The Four Dimensions of Values-Based Leadership

  The four most important duties of every leader are fostering character strength, creating high expectations, promoting a spirit of fellowship, and earning commitment to the quest. This presentation features proven strategies for promoting a culture of values-based leadership. It is richly illustrated with examples from the contemporary business world, from history, and from the world's great store of fiction and myth. (Available for keynote presentation, breakout session, and leadership retreat.)

• Honey and Glue: Recruiting and Retaining the Best People

  Although current headlines are dominated by stories of companies shedding jobs, the most serious challenge facing companies, hospitals, and government agencies in the years to come will be finding and keeping great people. You attract people with the "honey" of pay and benefits, opportunities for advancement, working conditions, etc. but you keep them with the "glue" of such intangibles as purpose, pride, trust, and fellowship. The focus of this presentation is on how to hold your organization with that glue. (Available for keynote presentation, breakout session, and leadership retreat.)

• The Pickle Challenge for Fostering a Positive Workplace Environment

  Do you have people in your organization whose negative attitudes make them look like they were born with dill pickles stuck in their mouths? This is not just a serious drain on energy and morale, it also saps productivity. The Pickle Challenge, and companion Pickle Pledge, is a fun and effective approach
  for creating organization-wide commitment to eradicating toxic emotional negativity the way we once eradicated toxic cigarette smoke. The emotional climate of the workplace is defined by what you expect and what you tolerate, and over time what you tolerate will dominate what you say you expect. In this dynamic presentation, Joe shows how to raise your expectations and to lower tolerance for deviations from those expectations. (Available for keynote presentation, breakout session, and leadership retreat.)

• Staying on Top When the World’s Upside Down

  It's official – our world has turned upside down. Millions of people have lost jobs, lost savings and lost serenity – and everyone else is worried about losing those things. Joe wrote the book Staying on Top When the World's Upside Down in 1996, but the message – which has been totally updated – is more necessary today than ever before. Packed with practical suggestions for staying on top of your time, money, career and life – and richly illustrated with real world examples. (Available for keynote presentation, breakout session, and leadership retreat.)

• Winning the War with Yourself

  The personal ability (or inability) to not be "Your Own Worst Enemy" is the single-most important determinant of success in this world, and the collective ability (or inability) of people within an organization to conquer this inner enemy will determine the how successfully that organization can compete in its marketplace. Every leader wants to build a winning team, but the non-negotiable (and often overlooked) first step is teaching individual team members skills and attitudes for thinking and acting like a winning player. Using proprietary tools such as The Self-Empowerment Pledge, Direction Deflection Questions, and Metaphorical Visualization, this program helps people overcome negative self-talk, poor self-image and low self-esteem, and other barriers to thinking and acting like the winner we were all born to be. (Available for keynote presentation, breakout session, and leadership retreat.)

• The Twelve Core Action Values

  The Twelve Core Action Values is a 60-module course on values-based life and leadership skills that is the core curriculum for Values Coach training and coaching programs. This dynamic presentation is an overview of the universal and eternal personal values that are the underpinning of the organizational values of every corporation, hospital, and educational or governmental entity, and shows practical steps for reinforcing corporate culture by building on that foundation of personal values.