Testimonials

"Thank you @josef.azam for generously donating your time, knowledge, and motivation to our youth, it is greatly appreciated. The youth will remember the time you spent with them and all the valuable insight you provided."

Merced County - Iris Garett Juvenile Justice Correctional

"Josef’s presentation was awesome! Thank you"

shiela farrell

Senior Program Manager | Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis

"Josef AMAZING presentation! THANK YOU so much for sharing your stories and tying it all together for the participants. You were very relatable. YOU ROCK!"

Pamala McCoy

Director of Coalition Outreach | Florida Prosperity Partnership

"Thank you again for the opportunity! The attendees were all very inspired by Joe's story and really appreciated the great insight that he shared with them. Joe was a great speaker for us to have!"

Tuka Almamori

Program Officer | First Graduate

"Thank you once again for your time your passion and your words of inspiration to our kids We would love to have you come back and visit whenever you are able! I'd love to have our founder Malivai Washington, come to our next session!"

Terri Florio

Executive Director/CEO | Malival Washington Youth Foundation

"It is so rare to meet an entrepreneur of Josef’s professional stature who has a servant’s heart. Josef tells his story from a place of total humility, honesty, and strength. He told our kids they can triumph just like him. And we believe him. His honesty is matched only by his sincerity. And Josef’s ability to spark a connection with a room full of young people, teachers, social workers, and school leaders is special. He is set apart. We can’t thank you enough for coming all the way down from Canada with nothing at all to gain from doing so except (as you said) “a sense of reward seeing the work we do.” ❤️ It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change. Thank you for being our pebble today."

iCan Dream Center NFP

"It's SO VERY GOOD! Thanks again for an insightful message to young people who need the encouragement to succeed!"

cindy hames

President | Junior Achievement Chisholm Trail

"On behalf of the whole Blueprint for All team, we wanted to say thank you for being a part of our Entrepreneurship & Innovation programme. It was wonderful having you on board to support the participants with your guidance and knowledge!"

Aasiya Sackey

Programmes Officer | Blueprint for All

"Thank you very much for being part of the Career Panel event. We are truly honored to count on your support and advice. And look forward to more collaborations in the future."

Yoselin Gonzalez-Mendez

Program Director | First Graduate

"Thanks again to Joe for sharing his time and experience so generously with our membership. I know his message resonated strongly with them."

Christie Antoniewicz

Director | Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)

"Joe was so amazing. What an incredible human. Mahalo for this opportunity"

Breeani Sumera-Lee

Executive Director | Hawaii Rise Foundation

"First I want to say I loved your presentation. I really connected with your story and how to well connect with people. All in all, what I wanted to say was that your message really spoke out to me, and I hope you can continue to reach out to other communities. There is something that even people higher up can benefit from, and it's very very valuable. It's also made me realize that the parts that you're born with are the seeds that are planted within you and you can grow them and make yourself stand out with EQ"

Daniel Permane

FPP Seminar Participant

"I really appreciate all of your help and thank you again to Joe for sharing the program."

Joshua Lehman

Chief Operating Officer| Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio

"Thank you so much I really enjoyed this session! By far the best one yet. I will definitely be looking into future sessions with Joe."

LAURA SANCHEZ

KCsourcelink Participant

"Do more like this! Always looking for clear, no-sales informative presentations with information I haven't heard 5.000 times before. This hit the mark!"

Florida Society of Association Executives

"One of our best panels! Thanks for sharing honestly and openly, Joe!"

Kathy Slotsve

Director of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement | Yes Montreal

"We honor your achievements even as you continue to inspire our students to be everything their imaginations and perseverance enable them to be. Our students and staff appreciated your talk with them so very much!!"

Terri Forman

Executive Director | First Graduate

"I want to express my sincere appreciation for your participation in After School Matters Career Day at Gately Park. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to talk with our teens and share your career journey."

Erika Robinson

Program Officer | After School Matters

"Your presentation left me speechless. You really inspired me to the point that I have so many questions and I don't even know where to begin. I'll probably have more questions for you later, I just can't come up with more right now because you left me speechless haha! But you really inspired me and I can tell that I can learn a lot from you so I'm writing this email to thank you and to learn as much as I can from you!"

Mykhailo Sinitsyn

FPP Seminar Participant

"I wanted to thank you for your presentation. I really, unsurprisingly, connected emotionally to your story and your pursuits. Your advice was really enlightening, specifically that we are not meant to be a number on a company's roster or a list of skills, but a person, a human."

Jeremy Hidayat

FPP Seminar Participant

"Josef did such a great job last week, thank you so much for agreeing to be a part of our CLA graduation. Our participants really enjoyed Josef's talk and found it inspirational and powerful. Overall, it was a great talk and reflection on how community leaders can help inspire and empower their audiences to make a more connected community."

Bana Tesfamichael

Senior Programmes Coordinator | Blueprint for All London

"He talked about being kind and compassionate and he showed those traits as a leader. I learned a lot from his leadership workshop."

Blueprint for All Seminar Participant

"A few minutes and he had so much to say that hit me! Thank you Josef"

Blueprint for All Seminar Participant

"Thank you so much for being a keynote speaker. Your story was an amazing capstone and helped end the conference on a high note."

Adam Compton

Executive Director | CASE District III

"Your messages were spot on for the audience! Judging from the comments we received it was a successful evening and it touched a lot of people! You made a difference and we are so grateful for your commitment to give back and to support John Abbott Continuing Education as you did!"

Sylvie Boucher

Manager | Cégep John Abbott College

"Thank you to @josef.azam for an awesome closing keynote."

CASE District III

"On behalf of our cadets and staff at Marine Leadership Academy, we want to give you a heartfelt THANK YOU for taking the time out of your schedule to participate in our annual Career and College Day event. We truly appreciate your time, flexibility, patience and passion for the work that you do and sharing that with us today. We hope that you will join us again for future career and college day events. "

Ila Faulkner

Professional Counselor | Marine Leadership Academy Chicago

"As always, your talk was inspiring to us all. Your down to earth presence and delivery make it so relatable for everyone, and I could tell when the students shared their goals that YOU had an impact on them. Thank you"

Steve Livingway

Director | Reaching Higher Inc.