Background
Built from the trenches, not a textbook.
Joe founded 26+ companies across tech, education, real estate and community building. One became the largest software and business training company in New York City. Along the way he kept noticing the same thing: the businesses, and the lives, rose or fell on the quality of their connections.
The Connection Map is thirty years of that, turned into a framework you can use in five minutes.
90,000+
People trained
26+
Ventures built
1995
Building since
1,000+
Testimonials
Teaching since 1998
Thirty years of systems. One framework for people.
I built New York's largest software training company and taught more than 90,000 people to run their own systems: Wall Street firms, Fortune 5 executives, the CIA, Microsoft, and celebrities like Tyra Banks.
Building businesses since 1995 and 26+ ventures later, I currently run AI companies, resorts, wedding venues and a slew of other businesses. The obsession has never changed: build it so it runs itself. And the one thing no system could fix for me was a misread relationship.
The birth of The Connection Map
As I built businesses and communities, I started noticing patterns in my connections, both personal and professional. I realized that sometimes I misread what a connection truly was. I lacked a tool to see it clearly.
As someone who's neurodivergent, I needed a system to visualize my connections and recognize when a relationship was actually aligned with my desires. That's why I created The Connection Map, a way to:
- Recognize the qualities of a connection
- Visualize it in a structured way
- Use both logic and intuition to navigate relationships
It transformed how I engage with people, make decisions, and invest my energy. Now I want to share it with the world.
Communities on three continents. The same lesson every time.
Retreats, festivals, a coworking community in New York, a resort in Bali. Whatever Joe built, the thing that made it work or fall apart was how the people inside it connected.
Mission
Bring more happiness and fulfillment into the world by up-leveling human connection and revolutionizing the language of relationships.
Vision
Environments where people lead radically expressed, aligned, happy and fulfilled lives, and create huge positive impact from there.
Three pillars of Extraordinary Alignment
01
Connection
Connection shapes everything: your relationships, friendships, and the communities you build. The Connection Map gives you language for the unseen dynamics so you can build deeper bonds with the right people.
02
Communication
Clarity and skilled communication is the key to stronger relationships, leadership, and self-expression. The way you express yourself determines the quality of your connections.
03
Career
Work should align with your purpose and pay for the life you want. Joe mentors entrepreneurs and professionals in building businesses that fuel their passion.
What people say
What people say about working with Joe
“ One of my priorities in creating this business from day one was to be able to keep in my zone of genius and keep in my feminine creative flow, and for the first time, I finally feel like I have that. Joe steps so into the masculine role that makes you feel so held in your business and so structured, but in a way that still allows your flexibility of your creative mind.”
“You are one of the most incredible mentors I've ever had in my life. I've had a big success once. I've made a few million, not one time, but over a few years, and then I walked away from all of that and restarted from close to zero. And then somehow God has blessed me with everything that I have now and led me to this moment. It's such a blessing to have come into your path at this timing, when I already had something kind of formed, to refine it and unlock the potential that I didn't even really know I had. You are the first person really that I've been able to go that deep and explore my skill set and explore my mission and vision in a safe way, to be like, oh, this person supports me. And I feel really good, and I can just let it all out. And now it's like, okay, go in one set direction.”
“Thank you so much Joe, for this event because as I'm here and listening to what people say, I feel myself immediately becoming more real and more authentic, and I feel myself connecting to myself just by being here in everyone's aura.”
“I appreciate that Joe provides personal examples help us, to guide us, to speak about our own personal life.”
“Joe is an incredible and passionate facilitator. He is very caring and wants the best for everybody. I deeply trust him, not only as a facilitator but as as a friend. I really resonate with the way he shares information and the way he holds space.”
“Joe really made it so practical with the methodology. He asked pointed questions, and was very easy to follow and discover. I noticed that everybody can easily discover their own purpose in this life with passion. So it was a milestone for me to discover what is my passion.”
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A few of the companies and people I have trained over the years.
Business background
26+ ventures, 30 years
Each one represents years of focus (and plenty of distraction), countless connections, and millions of dollars moving in and out. All of them taught me what works, what doesn't, and how to create more balance, freedom and joy through better systems. For the full story, see my LinkedIn.
NYIM Training
Founder · 1999–2017 · NYC- Founded New York's largest corporate business process and software training company
- Trained more than 90,000 people from thousands of companies on data analytics, programming, and business skills
- Helped Fortune 5 CEOs, CIA, FBI, and celebrities automate and improve their business processes
- Contracted to deliver training to all NY State and City University professors
Glamp Nusa
Partner & Investor Lead · 2022–present · Bali- Led capital raising, investor relations, and development strategy for a luxury clifftop resort with 40 tented villas
- Dividends paid within 2 weeks of opening, July 2024
- 28% ROI per annum
The Connection Map
Founder & author · 2023–present- The first comprehensive framework for mapping human connection: four threads, 31 sub-categories, one map
- The Golden Relationship (book), the quiz, the Connection Lab, and 1:1 relationship evaluations
- Also: Masterminds HQ, All Sorted, HookLab, Wishwell, and Iron Amethyst Holdings
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The Book
The Golden Relationship
The new framework for finding soul-aligned love, avoiding breakups, betrayals, or divorce papers. By Joe Che.
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