Joe Hoare is a specialist in creating upbeat & engaging workplaces. His Enjoy Work clients come from a variety of businesses and industries from professional service firms and airlines to education and health. He has been providing keynotes, seminars, and corporate laughter workshops for over a decade.
Enjoy Work was developed over 25 years of working life and uses positive engagement, wellbeing, and humour in the workplace to help clients achieve optimum results
His energy, enthusiasm and experience with the themes of leadership, teamwork and motivation encourage people to ‘step outside their box’, create a positive, upbeat working environment, and get it done.
His is a practical and interactive style which taps into the combo of thinking, feeling and doing so people bring all their skills to bear, including the ones they didn't know they had! Delegates find themselves resourced with both innovative thinking and proven techniques.
He is an occasional visiting lecturer at the University of the West of England in the fields of leadership, empowerment and health promotion. He also trained in ‘Laughter Yoga’ with Dr Madan Kataria, founder of laughter clubs international, and runs regular laughter workouts for organisations and the general public. His work regularly appears in the press, including The Sunday Times, Nursing Times, Bristol Evening Post, and on television, including Points West, BBC 1's Inside Out, Discovery Health Channel, sponsored by the British Heart Foundation.
He worked for 20 years as a manager of forest operations in the UK before specialising full time in Enjoy Work, and he lived and worked in the States and China before moving back to Bristol.