Joce ("Joss") Ryder is the founder of Decision Integrity Group, where they train individuals and institutions to recognize and respond to critical signals in high-risk decision moments.

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Their work is built on nearly two decades of direct facilitation in domestic violence intervention, anti-racism education, and peer-accountability organizations—spaces where decisions carry real consequences and avoidance isn’t an option. Ryder’s approach centers on the core principle that the data people most need in high-pressure situations is often the data they’ve been trained to ignore.

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Ryder is a certified Domestic Violence Intervention and Prevention Facilitator through the San Francisco Adult Probation Department. They have led alternative sentencing groups for individuals on probation for domestic violence and child endangerment, working at the intersection of accountability, behavior change, and survivor impact. This work informs their ability to guide people through high-stakes internal and interpersonal dynamics without collapsing into defensiveness or reactivity.

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In 2012, Ryder was part of a year-long domestic-violence intervention cohort, convened by Swords to Ploughshares, finding solutions to high incidences of post-deployment domestic violence among military personnel.

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Since 2015, Ryder has developed and facilitated Listening to Racism. This ongoing body of work focuses on helping white-identified people notice and interrupt conditioned patterns of racist and white-supremacist thinking. Their teaching emphasizes real-time recognition, personal accountability, and behavioral change. This work is currently being developed into a book.

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Decades of participation in peer accountability communities have shaped Ryder's ability to recognize and work with denial, resistance, and the gap between stated values and lived behavior—key dynamics in any high-risk decision environment.

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In 2024, Ryder co-created the Gender Expansive Ministry at City of Refuge United Church of Christ in Oakland, where they organize programming and public events focused on visibility, belonging, and leadership within faith-based spaces.

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Alongside this work, Ryder is a lifelong artist and cultural organizer. Their background includes writing and performing theatre and music, media production, and visual art, with a body of work that often vividly engages themes of power, identity, addiction—and the conditions under which those patterns can shift. This artistic practice informs their training style—experiential, pattern-based, and grounded in lived reality rather than theory alone.

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Earlier in their career, Ryder worked across human resources, training development, recruiting, and design—translating complex systems into accessible, usable tools. That throughline continues in Decision Integrity Group: turning complex human dynamics into clear, actionable awareness under pressure.

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Across all disciplines, Ryder’s work is defined by a consistent focus: helping people access the information already present in their bodies, perceptions, and environments—so they can make well-informed, integrated decisions when it matters most.

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