Joseph Michelli

Joseph Michelli (born August 11, 1960) is an American psychologist, organizational consultant, speaker, and author.

Joseph Michelli began his career in radio as a teenager with KRLN in Canon City, Colorado from 1973 to 1978.

He then worked at KWBZ radio in Denver under the pseudonym "The Rock and Roll Kid" as an on-air host from 1979 to 1982.

Michelli received his undergraduate degree from the University of Denver, where he triple majored in psychology, philosophy, and political science and where he was honored as the 1981 Outstanding Junior Man.

In 1985 Michelli co-authored the research paper A Brief Test for Measuring Malingering in Schizophrenic Individuals that was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Additional academic publications from his studies included articles in the Journal of Pediatric Psychiatry and Law and Human Behavior, as well as a chapter of the third edition for Behavioral Assessment: A Practical Handbook.

Michelli is also the author of financial and economics publications.

Michelli worked as a clinical psychologist for the Penrose-St.

He graduated with his PhD in 1988 from the University of Southern California, completing his thesis entitled Observational Bias in Spouse Observation Integrating Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches to Marital Distress.

During his undergraduate studies he co-authored an article for Psychology Today entitled Would You Believe a Child Witness.

Francis Health Care System in Colorado during the 1990s.

He took an eight-year break from radio while attending graduate and post-graduate school, but returned to radio in 1990.

That year Michelli began hosting what would become a nationally syndicated radio show called Wishing You Well on the Business News Network.

As a radio host, he was interviewed for major newspapers to respond to current events involving psychology.

Michelli also hosted The Joseph Michelli Show on KVOR in Colorado Springs, CO, a daily 2-hour afternoon drive talk show that ran from 1997 to 2007.

The show continued until 1999.

Michelli continued his practice as a psychologist through the late 2000s, serving as a forensic psychologist in Colorado and special investigator for public prosecutions.

He has also been interviewed as an expert of forensic psychology on CNN.

Since 2004, he has written business books, including The Starbucks Experience, The New Gold Standard, Prescription for Excellence, and Driven to Delight. He is a visiting assistant professor at Campbellsville University.

Due to his work as an author, as of 2007 Michelli would host the show over the telephone on the road while doing book signings, speaking engagements, and other events.

He left the show in June 2007.

Upon his departure from the radio business it was claimed he had "raised the talk show bar" in Colorado, as Michelli left to work full-time on his books.

Michelli's commentary on social issues was sometimes the cause of controversy.

The group Media Matters stated that he had failed to deter frequent callers from making insensitive remarks about homosexuals, and had allowed a guest host for his show to make similar remarks.

Michelli is also a consultant that works with companies on customer retention strategies.

Michelli has written or co-written a number of books on the culture of individual businesses.

Michelli married Nora Leigh Smith, with whom he had two children, Joseph Andrew and Fiona.

Nora died from breast cancer on February 11, 2013.