Josh Epperson
Josh works with Passages for both community-based NGOs and multi-national corporations in a variety of industries, all of which require the organizations and their leaders to deliever increasing levels of performance and adaptable capability. His work consists of large-scale organization and culture change, organization architecture, and leadership development. Some of his clients have included: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, McDonalds, Phase 2 Consulting, Gates Corporation, Cadbury Schweppes, Golden Key, Starbucks Coffee Company, TriHealth, Everett Washington USA, The Atlantic Philanthropies, Microsoft, CIA, and The Hershey Company. Josh’s recent writing focuses on building sustainable and productive cross-generational relationships in the workplace. He is the co-author of, Future in-Formation: Choosing a Generative Organizational Life (Outskirts, 2008) which addresses ways organizations and communities can further leverage the human endeavor toward greater effectiveness and social engagement. He is on faculty at Argosy University where he has the privilege of working with students pursuing studies in business and psychology. Josh has designed and facilitated many large-scale simulation-based learning interventions that merge multiple traditionally viewed one-off training interventions into one experience with the various components that are most relevant for each learning context. He helped create and facilitate a major leadership intervention, The Leadership Crucible. This is a 3-day in-depth immersion where participants, by assuming the leadership roles in several fictitious organizations in a fictitious city, are able to try on new leadership behaviors and formulate strategies in a low-risk environment and get feedback on their styles of relating and leadership performance.
He earned a Masters of Science in Organizational Development at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. Some of his recent research is focused on the topic of an organization’s ability to create interdependence across its businesses and functions, and the role those relationships play in increasing performance and competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Josh also holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, WA. Previously he worked as a therapist helping clients with severe mental health disorders. His work and study in the field of behavioral sciences has greatly contributed to his life and work as an OD professional.