Joy Humbarger is CEO and Founder of Maximize Your Leadership. She's an international management expert who provides insightful, intuitive training and coaching on turning negativity and conflict in the workplace into profit.
With more than 30 years of experience in the education and leadership fields, Joy is an expert in transforming mindsets to better business. She is the author of “Coaching the F___!! Out of Change”, a chapter in The Change11, a national collection of tips and stories to empower others to take their leadership to the next level.
An accomplished business coach, Joy is a Professional Certified Leadership Coach, holds a Bachelor degree in Business and Psychology as well as a Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education.
She has presented training for organizations such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children, National Head Start Association, and the KPMG Leadership Conference, as well as educational and business conferences around the world.
Joy has trained over 8,000 leaders across the world, and has supported over 700 leaders in one-to-one coaching settings. Her mission is to help people shift from negativity and conflict to strengths-focused, positive, productive growth and change in oneself, in teams, and in the work environment.
Joy’s work centers on her passion for helping each person discover and celebrate their own unique strengths, as well as the strengths of others; and providing opportunities to develop self-reflection skills to create and enhance positive growth and change in oneself and others. When she's not supporting others to grow, you can find Joy curled up in a chair reading mysteries, beating her husband at Rummy, or playing with her active and ornery grandsons.