Biography

Joel Shapiro, Ph.D., is an accomplished business leader, executive coach, and consultant with over 30 years of global experience. He has advised Tier 1 multinational companies, delivering transformative leadership programs and coaching thousands of executives across Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Joel helped build and scale his family company, Metro 360, serving as VP of HR. Joel managed the post-merger integration for six companies that came together during a massive industry consolidation, helping them gel together as one team, and realigning the combined culture with the new market realities and competitive landscape. We successfully transformed the organization from being a sleepy, local, monopolistic commodity supplier, with a culture of entitlement and cost cutting, to being a value-added service provider and fierce national competitor. The business grew to over 600 employees and established itself as a market leader in Canadian wholesale distribution. Following its successful sale, he now presides over his family office and focuses entirely on his passion: developing purpose-driven leaders through his firm, Advanture.

He holds a Ph.D. with Distinction in Philosophy and is a former member of the Canadian National Freestyle Ski Team.