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Keynote Speaking & Team Development
Educator · Performance Coach · Founder of HPG
"Proud Sponsor of Progress."
The Real Problem
44% K-12 / 35% Higher Ed
Gallup, 2024 — the two highest burnout rates in the country
The system burns people out, then wonders why.
The Better World
62%
Gallup — engaged people are far less likely to leave
The people who stay got a system worth staying for.
Three Ways In
Ten Undeniable Traits. Nearly 200 Real Leaders. One Question Worth Asking.
200 on-camera conversations with the nation's top influencers in education, boiled down to ten traits that hold up under real pressure — and one question every leader had to answer: is this still worth it? Every participant leaves with a free companion guide.
Seven Forces. Seven Antidotes. One Fight Worth Picking.
Built from Joe's own burnout story as a leader in 2013. Seven structural forces working against your people right now, each shipped with an antidote your team can use that same week. A monograph of the book is available to the whole team.
The Leadership Operating System for Higher Performance Teams.
Talented people on a leadership team don't automatically add up to a team that performs like one. This workshop maps your team's cognitive gaps and hands your team a working operating system for how you become more brilliant than busy together. The book is available to all participants.
For the first time, our cabinet had a shared language for how we think together. TQ didn't just improve our meetings — it changed what we were able to build together.
Dr. Jeff Horton 2025 DALI Superintendent of the Year
GateWay's breakthrough came from intentional work on team cohesion. We built shared leadership standards, a common language, and a commitment to lead systems together.
Dr. Amy Diaz President, GateWay Community College
At a Glance
Dr. Joe Hill
Founder, Higher Performance Group
Joe Hill is a first-generation college graduate, two-sport collegiate athlete, and licensed performance coach. He spent 30 years as an educational leader — principal, superintendent, and graduate faculty — before founding Higher Performance Group.
At 45, a hard season forced him to rethink how he led. What came out of it is the idea HPG is built on: great leaders don't scale — great leadership teams do. He's since studied more than 1,000 teams through longitudinal research and created TQ: Team Intelligence, HPG's signature framework for how leadership teams actually perform — the foundation of The TQ Advantage. That research base also shows up on stage in The Proof, built from nearly 200 interviews on his podcast, The Show, and in The Burnout Force, built from his own burnout as a leader in 2013.
He holds a doctorate and works with K-12 superintendents and college and university presidents across North America from HPG's home base in Stillwater, Minnesota. He's married to his high school best friend, Becky, a public school teacher and instructional coach.
Not sure which one fits your room? Book a 20-minute call and we'll find the right match together.
Dr. Joe Hill · Founder, Higher Performance Group · Stillwater, Minnesota
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