Meet Dr. Joel P. Martin of Triad West Positively Powerful Training & Consulting Programs in Scottsdale

Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Joel P. Martin.

Dr. Martin, Ph.D., is a recognized entrepreneur, international coach, trainer, speaker, and author. She is considered one of the premiere transformational trainers and training designers internationally and a thought leader in this industry. Dr. Martin is the founder of Triad West Inc., a more than 15-year-old global company headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ. Her company has served corporations across the US, and in Malaysia, Taiwan, China, South Africa, France, the United Kingdom, and Latvia.

Previously, Dr. Martin was the owner, operator and creative director of a full-service New York City advertising agency. Then she took a series of transformational training so impactful that she closed her agency, became an international trainer and founder of Triad West Inc.

A firm believer in giving back to her community, diversity, and inclusion, 11 years ago she created the Triad West Positively Powerful Programs to provide training and development to the general public. The Positively Powerful Woman Awards annually acknowledges diverse women leaders who are role models in various industries. The mission of the Awards is to acknowledge the accomplishments of women in ways that empower all people to live their dreams. Thus far, more than 50 women business leaders have been honored for their accomplishments in media, corporate, philanthropic, educational, international, visionary and social justice.

Dr. Martin has received numerous awards for her business and community contributions including the world’s premier business award, the Stevie Award. She is the recipient of the FraserNet PowerNetworker of the Year Phenomenal Woman Award, NAACP Business Leadership Award – East Valley, AZ, The Ohio State University Citation for Distinguished Achievement, YWCA Tribute to Leadership Social Justice Award – Metro Phoenix, ABHOW Corporate Governance Award, National Alliance of Market Developers Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Greater Phoenix Black Chamber Community Advocate of the Year Award, and the Faithpreneur Legacy Leadership Award.

Dr. Martin is the author of How To Be A Positively Powerful Person and Me Brand Awareness on personal branding. She has been featured on The Today Show and ABC Sonoran Living and in publications that include the New York Times, US News and World Report, Black Enterprise, Arizona Informant, and Essence. Before opening Triad West, she was the owner, operator and creative director of a full-service advertising agency. For this reason, she is featured in Pioneering African-American Women in the Advertising Business: Biographies of MAD Black WOMEN, authored by Dr. Judy Foster Davis.

She has earned an MA in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Communications, as well as being admitted to the Society of Wharton Fellows of the Wharton Business School.

Born in New York City and raised in Toledo, Ohio, Dr. Martin is a proud member of the African American Woman Giving and Empowerment Circle, a Community Initiative of the Arizona Community Foundation, a founding member of the Coalition of Blacks Against Breast Cancer, and member, Tanner Chapel AME Church.

She resides in Scottsdale, AZ with her husband Bob, who is a fine artist. They are the proud parents of their daughter Cybel, a member of the Cinematographers Union and an award-winning Director of Photography for feature films, commercials, and television programs.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Challenges Dr. Martin Overcame
She was raised financially disadvantaged by her loving single mother, Joel’s role model. Her mother became a homeowner with a solid government job. In elementary school, Joel was hit with the stereotype of being considered dumb, a stigma that followed her to college and yet she broke through these experiences to become a creative powerhouse after graduation. Joel was one of America’s first women to own and operate a full-service advertising agency, a company she began as a new mom.

Then after participating in a series of transformational training, Joel elevated her life so much that she closed her ad agency to follow her dream to make a bigger difference with human beings directly as a speaker, coach, trainer, consultant and author focusing on transformational leadership, diversity and inclusion.

This was easier said than done. This transition, was a life-changer, literally and figuratively. Joel went from being an advertising executive with her own corporation to starting over as a rooking in a new industry working for another company. She went as Joel describes it in her book, How To Be A Positively Powerful Person “from six figures to one figure” financially.

Joel “paid her dues”, went back to school, earned her Masters, Doctorate and became a Wharton Fellow. As an international trainer, she opened Triad West Inc. more than 15 years ago.

The principles of choice, vision, and commitment that Joel learned as a rooking and then taught others as a global trainer proved to be invaluable for Joel’s greatest life challenge. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and considers herself a conqueror, not a survivor to still be alive making her difference with and for others.

Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about Triad West Positively Powerful Training & Consulting Programs – what should we know?
Triad West Inc. provides customized services, programs, and events for clients in technology, utilities, healthcare, hospitality, education, entrepreneurial, and not-for-profit organizations. We are a certified WBENC corporation.

Diversity and inclusion, organizational development, change management, breakthrough performance, leadership alignment, team building, managerial effectiveness, managerial coaches, and women’s empowerment are our core competencies. We provide these services through consulting, training, and coaching professionals who are flexible and conscientious in meeting clients’ needs.

We are expert in defining the needs assessments of training design and the experiential and instructional delivery of our programs across the US and internationally.

Our unique suite of programs built around award-winning Positively Powerful Woman professional training and development is a successful community influencer, corporate brand enhancer, and crowd pleaser. Through our collaborative and community partnerships, over the last 11 years, we’ve reached many thousands of individuals through social media, honored over 50 women business leaders with the Positively Powerful Woman Awards. Our programs also include public training, seminars, leadership summits, webinars, retreats, coaching sessions and Lunch N Learns.

Is there a characteristic or quality that you feel is essential to success?
Being an inspirational, informative, giving, inclusive leader.

Pricing:

• Positively Powerful Woman Leadership Intensive Retreat October 4, 5, and 6, 2018. $525, (2018 registration fee.)
• Executive Coaching Customized Services. Prices determined after Coach Client Strategic Session.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.positivelypowerful.com/Insights
• Email: jpmartin@triadwest.com
• Instagram: drjpmartin
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joel.martin.710667
• Twitter: @Drjoelmartin
• Other: https://www.facebook.com/CorporateStrategists/

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