The Empowerment Group

Founded in 1989 by James Cox, the Empowerment Group has been helping leaders enhance their abilities and providing them with the tools to be their most effective. The MOVVE!™ communication technique has been taught to hundreds of groups across the nation, impacting lives, improving communication and igniting success.

MOVVE!™ communication techniques are being used in numerous different businesses, school districts, government agencies and health/social services organizations where audiences ranging from apathetic to enthusiastic have participated in seminars. The results have been realized through better attitudes, increased productivity and greater teamwork.

About James Cox, founder 

With his parents working in live television in New York City, James grew up behind the scenes playing on a soundstage and watching people get into character. From camera operators to support staff, everyone on the set teamed to create productions - even when scripts didn’t arrive on time. He saw how scenes played in sequence using communication and appropriate emotions to move toward desired endings. After completing his degree in education, James used his television experience to create a practice where participants could master communication skills, goal achievement and emotional intelligence. He calls this success-energizing process MOVVE!™

MOVVE!™ overcomes obstacles to achieve genuine improvement – getting people to actually apply knowledge and make productive change. So often, learning is defeated or hindered by a person’s traditional and lone reliance on information and IQ. Typically, our culture emphasizes passive IQ over the more active EQ. EQ - emotional intelligence quotient – is the key factor needed to apply information because it energizes action. We often know what to do, but too often we don’t do it. MOVVE!™ is EQ-in-motion, increasing capabilities through get-out-of-your-seat experiences, giving participants remarkable skills to produce improvements.

James has held MOVVE!™ seminars across the nation, creating true, sustainable and positive change. His leadership training has been credited with corporations significantly increasing profits, with teams increasing their functionality and with people bettering their lives.

Education

• Post Graduate Counseling Studies, University of AK
• Masters in Education, Boston University
• BA in Psychology, University of Alaska
• Associate Nursing Degree, Anchorage Community College
• Associate Degree in Electronics, Lackland AFB, USAF

Professional Expertise

• Created Dram-edy (now called MOVVE!™), an award winning interactive communication technology for engaging and empowering emotional intelligence in even "hard to reach" populations
• Trained as a facilitator of Here's Looking At You 2000, a comprehensive program for drug/alcohol education
•  Worked with Impact - a program for the identification, intervention and referral of chemical dependency abusers
• Counseled students in R.E.A.C.H. - a student assistance program to provide support groups, refusal skills, stress management and other critical life skills for combating substance abuse behaviors;
• Worked as a counselor in Active Peer Helpers - a comprehensive school and community based peer helper program that provides visible role modeling, referral services and peer support groups
• Worked as a counselor in Achieving Your Potential, Edge and a host of personal and professional programs for increasing human effectiveness in home, school and on the job.

Awards & Recognitions

• Anchorage Chamber of Commerce Networking Award, 1991
• Special Recognition for developing Dram-edy - Alaska Legislature, 1988
•  Executive Governor's Proclamation establishing Dram-edy Week, 1986
• Executive Mayors Proclamation establishing Dram-edy Day, 1986
• Governor's Health & Safety Award - Outstanding Community Service, 1985