Joyce spent 30+ years in multiple layers of a Fortune 500 Corporate hierarchy, including the ranks of Corporate Officer. From hiring, training, and managing a labor and management workforce of over 5,000 to creating and managing international onboard services of an international airline – all at the same time, Joyce learned to apply success strategies. She credits the experiences with providing insights into ways to integrate people, processes, and technology to address most issues, and create opportunity out of perceived problems.
Joyce leveraged her experiences to develop and teach customer service and success strategies to organizations and in higher education. She now uses her knowledge and skills to write, and develop and administer programs under the umbrella of a number of entities, including Leverage Your Resources, LLIFE Ministries, High School CEOs, Young CEOs, and more.
Joyce admits that her personality traits drive her to continually look for ways to improve any situation. She uses article writing and videos to advance her philosophy and share her knowledge with others online and offline.
Joyce and her business partner have produced numerous events that educate and inform young adults. Recent events include a Young Millionaire’s Conference in St. Louis featuring top business owners like David Steward, CEO of one of the largest Black-owned companies in the U.S.; hiring events that connect qualified young adults and hiring companies; and Entrepreneurship and Leadership Conferences.
Joyce’s memoir, Soul Stirrings: How Looking Back Gives Each of us the Freedom to Move Forward is a humorous and thoughtful look at growing up in pre-civil rights Mississippi, and includes learning that has sustained her over the years. She says she wrote the book for selfish reasons; she wanted to pay homage to people whose shoulders carried her to places they would never see, as well as place a stake in the ground to claim where she comes from. She co-wrote Collaboration, Teamwork, and Networking with a business partner and friend with whom she offers Leadership Training. This book examines a process for working collaboratively to improve communities.
Joyce is also a speaker, having delivered keynotes for major organizations.
Joyce completed college at Alcorn State University in Mississippi, and further study culminating in the publication of her research on Cis 1,2 DicarboxylicAcid Cyclobutane at the at The University of Oklahoma. She jokingly says that her future was sealed with her first publication, but she thought she’d rather write something that provoked more dialogue.
Joyce is convinced that everyone has some knowledge or skill that can be of use to others. Through Leverage Your Resources she hopes to provide this opportunity to others.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. Ethiopia
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