Joe has  extensive experience as a practitioner in Mediation, Conciliation, Arbitration and Adjudication.

Joe served as the International President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2010 and is a past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Irish Branch); he is a Fellow of  the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Engineers Ireland; a Council member of the Irish Commercial Mediation Association and a former Board member and Treasurer of Mediators Institute Ireland.

In Ireland ,he sits on many professional ADR Panels of mediators, conciliators and arbitrators for bodies such as the Law Society, Engineers Ireland, Construction Industry Federation, Mediators Institute Ireland, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Eirgrid and formerly the Private Residential Tenancies Board.

Internationally he sits on the Dubai International Arbitration Centre panel of Arbitrators and the Mediator panel of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London

He designs change management solutions and dispute avoidance systems for individuals and organisations.

 Joe is a certified mediator with the International Mediation Institute (IMI), practitioner member of Mediators Institute Ireland (M.I.I.), Fellow mediator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and accredited mediator with CIArb.

He delivers mediation training programmes around the world including modules at Maynooth University in Ireland. He is a Course Director, tutor and assessor in Mediation and Arbitration training with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. 

Joe is the founder of  J P Behan Associates, Consulting Engineers and a member of the Institute of Directors.

He is a patron of Open Door in Bray,County Wicklow ,Ireland