Joe Brancoccio

Joe Brancoccio is an educational consultant and trainer with Newman Stecher International, a consulting firm providing training and technical assistance to schools throughout the nation in the area of comprehensive at risk prevention/intervention programming. With an extensive background in business, both as an owner and manager, Joe brings a fresh perspective to the field of academia. His skills in negotiation techniques, communication, and conflict resolution are especially well suited to help teachers, counselors, and administrators increase their effectiveness when dealing with at risk students, and their families.

Joe's expertise in creating second chance companies, dedicated to the employment of people in recovery, provides him with insight into the problems and concerns of families at risk, and the needs of the children being raised in such difficult circumstances. His experience assisting newly released prisoners with their search for alternative career choices supplies him with hands on experience helping to create self-esteem in lives where none previously existed.

Many companies have enlisted Joe to assist them with team building and group process. He has trained groups as small as ten, and as large as four thousand participants. His work in the areas of anthropomorphic personality types, and neurolinguistic programming provide participants with a new skill set to better equip themselves when seeking the agreement and cooperation of students, parents, or fellow educators.

Joe is actively involved as a board member in his local YMCA, Optimist Club, and Food Bank. All three organizations allow him to enlist the services of at risk children in his community, and give him the opportunity to reveal to these children the miracle of self-esteem through service to others.

Joe believes the Masonic Model of Student Assistance as provided by Newman Stecher International is the best training of its type in the country. He considers it an honor to be part of a program that proves to be so invaluable to the educators and at risk children it serves.