Joy Nissen
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 16, 2026
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- Jul 10, 2026
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The Exit Nobody Prepares For: Leadership Transition In Family Business (opens the original)
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Joy Nissen, Psy.D., MBA, Global Managing Partner at AIIR Consulting and a clinical psychologist, also Board Certified in biofeedback. Most family businesses don’t fail because of bad strategy. They fail because of what the business means to the person who built it. I grew up in a large family business. I watched my father carry the weight of what he built for decades, not just in the business decisions but also in the quieter questions of what it all meant and what comes next. For the person who
Communication Isn't A Skill Problem—It's A Perspective Problem (opens the original)
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Joy Nissen, Psy.D., MBA, Global Managing Partner at AIIR Consulting and a clinical psychologist, also Board Certified in biofeedback. Most organizations treat communication as a skill problem. If you train leaders on clarity, conciseness and active listening, performance will follow. After years of working with senior leaders and looking closely at our own data, I've come to think that framing misses the point entirely. In a recent analysis of executive coaching data that spans 480 leaders from
Why Executive Performance Breaks Down Under Pressure (opens the original)
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Joy Nissen, Psy.D., MBA, Global Managing Partner at AIIR Consulting and a clinical psychologist, also Board Certified in biofeedback. Most senior leaders I work with are good at diagnosing problems in their organizations. They're considerably less accurate at diagnosing problems in themselves. When performance breaks down—when a strategy conversation goes sideways, when a key decision gets rushed, when a team starts operating on edge—the default explanations tend to be external. Misalignment. Ca
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