ABOUT
ABOUT J. IBEH AGBANYIM. PhD
J.Ibeh Agbanyim, PhD, is a scholar-practitioner, the founder of Focused Vision Consulting, LLC. With more than two decades of experience at UPS, Dr. Agbanyim has published multiple bestselling books on collaboration, engagement, thought processes, decision-making, and the emotion of fear. His work has been widely read by individuals who represent major corporations and institutions, including Intel, UPS, Bank of America, the U.S. Airforce, Arizona State University, and many others. As a public speaker, Dr. Agbanyim has participated in speaking engagements both nationally and internationally (UAE, Europe, Canada, and Africa).
Dr. Agbanyim is a Harvard Kennedy School-trained leadership development practitioner who has also received training in nonverbal communication from Stanford, and neuroscience for leadership executive education from MIT Sloan School of Management. He earned his graduate degree in industrial-organizational psychology and a PhD in the same discipline from Grand Canyon university. Dr. Agbanyim is married with a daughter.
ABOUT FOCUSED VISION CONSULTING
Focused Vision Consulting understands how important human capital is to your business. Our business is to guide you find, motivate, retain, and engage employees. Focused Vision Consulting was founded by Dr. J. Ibeh Agbanyim on the principles of focus and engagement. These two psychological constructs work in concert and are rooted in science and practice. Any effort to ignore one over the other, creates an imbalance in our daily business practice. Dr. Agbanyim describes these principles at work in his book, The Power of Engagement: How to Find Balance in Work and Life. Click here: The Five Principles of Collaboration to read more about the book.
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