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Dr. Joan Colleran Hoxsey
Consultant and Trainer
Dr. Hoxsey has worked with parents, students, faculties and businesses. She was the Executive Director of Lorain County Ohio Families First Council. She also headed a five million dollar program for young children and their families. She has done extensive work with Executives from all fields: business, education, social services, businesses and religious groups. Her greatest satisfaction is helping individuals and organizations turn their deficit-based notions about themselves and others around to seeing themselves and others as gifted with something the world needs.
Joan is currently working with several corporations whose goal it is to develop appreciative organizational structures. Joan’s work is also based on positive psychology as it relates to human resources, employee engagement and happiness. She works with Human Resources Departments to help them focus on employee strengths and the facilitation of “flow.” Joan has worked with Peter Block on several projects. The work she and her husband have done with adolescent men is cited in Block’s recent book “Community: the Structure of Belonging.”
Dr. Joan Hoxsey holds a Master of the Science of Education from Youngstown State University (Ohio) and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Graduate Theological
Foundation, (Notre Dame, Indiana). Joan co-authored Finding the ExtraOrdinary Marriage Appreciative Inquiry for Couples with her late husband, Michael, and contributed a chapter on AI to the book Mastering the Art of Success. She co-authored Appreciative Inquiry: a Shadow Practice (September 2010) and has written several articles on the use of VIA with Appreciative Inquiry for the AI Practitioner, ODN Practitioner, and the Appreciative Inquiry Foundations Manual.
The Hoxseys raised six “nearly perfect children” and have 11 “perfect grandchildren” and one “surely great grandchild”. They were part of the first-ever Family Relations family curriculum delegation to the former USSR.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]