About Joe Kenney

We are often asked to bring our body to work … and maybe our mind as well. But we’re often asked to leave our spirit or passions at the door. Like a three-legged stool, that’s exhausting to maintain balance and very difficult be truly impactful. I emphasize a whole-person model.

We all have a unique set of core talents and other areas that are more challenging. I believe effective leadership is leveraging our strengths, while respecting the diversity of strengths and intercultural dynamics of others.

I believe excellent leaders know when and how to follow as well. We all are accountable to someone. So good followership is key to good leadership.

My mother once wrote, “May your cross become your crown”. She truly believed that hardships and challenges, if managed well, can actually become a shining moment or one’s strength. My style often utilizes experiential learning to leverage hardships or challenges into successes.

I see myself as your partner in your personal journey. My clients are already high performers with high potential for even more. We will utilize proven trends in coaching, behavioral science, and neuroscience.

My goal as a coach is to help you …

… Gain Clarity. Build Confidence. Act with Courage. All Balanced with Compassion.

My coaching has been deeply informed by 25+ years working in corporate, non-profit, academic, health care, and public sectors. Early in my career, I led organizations serving youth in “high risk” situations like truancy, runaway, homeless, and adjudication.  This subsequently led to many years in corporate human resources, training, consulting, and individual coaching.  I additionally served several years as adjunct professor teaching leadership in an Executive MBA program at Rochester Institute of Technology.

 My specialties include leadership development, career development, effective communication, team development, change management, organizational design, and human capital strategies. Notable clients include:

• Prudential

• Sentry Safe

• CIGNA

• Eastman Kodak

• National Guard

• Accenture

• Blue Cross/Blue Shield

• Partners Health System

• Ohio State University

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts

• Atrium Health System

• Associated Marine Institutes

• Florida Network of Homeless and Runaway Youth

I am an Executive Coach certified by International Coach Federation (ICF) with 15+ years of coaching experience.  Additionally, I am a Senior Certified Professional by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM-SCP).  I completed my master’s degree in Organizational and Human Resource Development from the University of Vermont.