About Us
Joe Edwards, Chair
Joe Edwards is the founder and chair of The Leadership Forum. It is a consulting firm helping businesses and professionals grow through executive coaching, proper strategic and business planning, team building and business leaders executive roundtables.
Mr. Edwards has been a successful entrepreneur with two ventures sold to publicly traded companies. He also served as vice president of marketing for a Fortune 100 Company whose sales exceeded $150,000,000. Mr. Edwards provides a broad perspective of talents and expertise.
Mr. Edwards has been a successful entrepreneur with two ventures sold to publicly traded companies. He also served as vice president of marketing for a Fortune 100 Company whose sales exceeded $150,000,000. Mr. Edwards provides a broad perspective of talents and expertise.
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Qualified Facilitator
Mr. Edwards is a qualified facilitator of the executive insight program. It is a highly recognized strategic planning process tool designed to assist companies in creating a strategic plan and the corresponding action plans required for implementation.
His list of clients includes the renowned Kauffman Foundation. It is where he was a facilitator for the FastTrac Entrepreneurial Business and Strategic Planning Program and a consultant to the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
His list of clients includes the renowned Kauffman Foundation. It is where he was a facilitator for the FastTrac Entrepreneurial Business and Strategic Planning Program and a consultant to the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Achievements and Affiliations
Mr. Edwards has been published and has spoken to several groups, including the following:
- Kauffman Foundation FastTrac Program
- Rockhurst Executive Fellows
- Keller Graduate School of Management
- National Career Information System Association
- Society of Certified Public Accountants
- Institute of Management Consultants
- Association for Women in Communications
Among his other achievements, Mr. Edwards was the first recipient of the prestigious award of Outstanding Strategic and Business Planing Facilitator for the Midwest Region from the Kauffman Foundation Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. He is one of only four facilitators in the country who has been given the award twice.
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