Hayes is currently an independent consultant with LTBL Consultants, facilitating workforce development, diversity management and juvenile justices training workshops across the United States. After 38 years of public service, he retired in January 2014 as Director of the Probation Services Division for the Travis County Juvenile Probation Department. During his tenure as Assistant Deputy Executive Director for the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse that ended in 1995, one of his crowning achievements was his participation in the development and implementation of the Texas Criminal Justice Treatment Initiative. He has served on the National Advisory Council for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, and currently serves as a board member for Neighborhood Housing Services of Austin and the Epsilon Iota Foundation.