Dr. Joel Pérez is an executive and leadership coach, speaker, and consultant, passionate about helping leaders and organizations achieve their goals and develop a posture of cultural humility so they can have the impact and create the culture they desire.
Joel is owner of Apoyo Coaching and Consulting, LLC and a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF). He specializes in career transitions, identity-conscious leadership coaching and coaching professionals that want to develop their cultural humility. He has a certification in the MBTI, Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), Gallup Strengths Certified Coach and is a certified coach through the Academy of Creative Coaching. He has over 20 years of experience in higher education, serving in various key leadership roles.
His upcoming book Dear White Leader: How to Achieve Organizational Excellence through Cultural Humility, available later this spring. The book is focused on helping leaders develop their cultural humility for individual, organizational, and community change.
Joel earned his doctorate in higher education administration at Claremont Graduate University. He has been married for over 26 years and has four children, and he enjoys cheering on the Los Angeles Dodgers and watching films.
Motivating Our Students Through Experience (MOSTe) is a community-based mentoring, scholarship, and college-access organization that encourages young women’s education and success.
Latinos LEAD promotes more inclusive and effective civil society organizations by preparing and recruiting Latinos for nonprofit board leadership; helping nonprofit organizations to develop governing boards that reflect their constituents; and, collaborating with partners to increase ethnic diversity in nonprofit governance.
