Dr. Joe Ross is the Co- Founder and President of HigherEchelon, Inc., which is the premier trusted partner in achieving organizational excellence. Dr. Ross has consulted with Fortune 100 companies, professional sports teams, Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Defense. Joe currently is the lead instructor for the Flag and General Officers executive level transition courses.
As a 1995 West Point graduate, Joe was a three-year letter winner and co-captain of the 1994 Army Football team. During his career as an Infantry Officer, Joe led 144 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division and deployed to Kosovo in 2001. The Secretary of the Army commended Joe’s unit for capturing two insurgents on the CIA’s top ten most wanted list and bringing the Serbian and Albanian leadership together to start a dialogue of reconciliation.
As the Director of the Military Enhancement Program from 2003 – 2008, Joe consulted with Pentagon leadership to operationalize the Warrior Ethos by changing the culture of the Army to be more agile and adaptive. Joe developed a standardized framework for training all military personnel about the intangible, emotional and mental skills of performance and helped write the Soldier’s Creed to establish a warrior mindset for the Army.
Joe received a Master of Education in Athletic Counseling from Springfield College and his Doctorate in Organizational Psychology from Walden University. Since 2009, Joe used his leadership experience and educational background to create a methodology and 450-person organization that combines people, process, and technology to improve performance, culminating in HigherEchelon’s flagship program, The Resilient and Adaptable Leader ©.