Joyce Millikan, Ph.D.
CEO and Senior Consultant

Why should you employ people who cannot perform?  Co-founder of Working Faith, Joyce connects client companies with people of character.  A USC grad (1971), Joyce earned the MA (1994) and Ph.D. (2003) from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA.  Joyce assists your leadership team to emphasize character: to hire, promote and discipline according to 49 specifically defined character qualities.  Character is: “The qualities built into a person’s life that determine his or her response toward others, regardless of the circumstances.”

In Strengthsfinder™ terms, Joyce’s strengths are Arranging, Maximizing, Activating, Connecting and Relating.  Joyce’s passion is empowering working people to experience corporate excellence: becoming highly productive and successful together.

To assure that prospective hires fit your organizational culture, Joyce offers the amazing MERIT Profile™—an online character, behavior and attitude survey for new hires, job applicants and management staff.  Biblically sound and professionally certified, MERIT results can be benchmarked for each company position.

Acting together the MERIT profile and Character First! enables pinpoint hiring, corporate culture-building, and succession planning.  Your ROI is individual and teamwork performance that accelerates company goals while building a respectful working culture.  This kind of workplace environment is vital to reducing employee turnover.

Joyce and her husband Greg live in Pasadena and are members of Lake Avenue Church.  Their sons Geoff (Cindy) and Todd (Hilary) have given Joyce and Greg the pleasure of sharing in the Christ-centered upbringing of five energetic grandsons.