Diversity SPEAKERS
Whether cultural, ethnic or gender-based, diversity in the workplace has been shown to enhance innovation, strengthen resilience and increase productivity. Our Diversity Speakers are experts at harnessing disparate voices, viewpoints and experiences to create stronger foundations for growth and productivity in all types of organizations.
And they should know; our roster of Diversity Speakers encompasses a wide spectrum of origins, experience and insight including noted speakers Vernice Armour, Frans Johansson and Lenora Billings Harris to name few.
From translation to collaboration, our Diversity Speakers help create environments where differences are recognized, embraced and synergized into powerful connections and problem-solving dynamics.
Diversity SPEAKERS
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Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour |
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It's all about the “Breakthrough Mentality": using it, Vernice “Fly Girl" Armour flew from beat cop to Marine Corps pilot in just three years and on the way became the USMC's first African American female pilot, then their first African American Female Combat Pilot. This might seem, and indeed is, a unique achievement, but after you've listened to Vernice and her inspirational “Zero to Breakthrough" flight-plan strategy you'll realize that… Read More |
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Frans Johansson |
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An expert in innovation and change management, Frans Johannson is in demand for speaking engagements throughout the world. Raised in Sweden by an African-American/Cherokee mother and Swedish father, he lives his life at the crossroads. He returned to America for his education, where he earned a BSc in environmental science from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Frans' first book, The Medici Effect, was nominated as one… Read More |
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Tamara Erickson |
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Harvard MBA Tamara J Erikson has been honored three times by the Thinkers50's list as one the most influential living management thinkers in the world. Her in-depth research and analysis on generations in the workplace is employed to provide essential presentations on preparing for the changing demographics of the workforce. An Executive Fellow of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School, she designed and is co-director of the school's premier… Read More |
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Rita Dove |
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Rita Dove was the youngest person and the first African-American to be appointed Consultant in Poetry at the library of Congress. In 1993 she was chosen as Poet Laureate of the United States and in 2004 as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Born in Akron Ohio, Rita showed early promise, being invited to the White House as a Presidential Scholar, chosen as one of the one hundred most… Read More |
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Samuel Betances |
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A passionate believer in equality, as befits a biracial, bicultural and bilingual citizen of the world, Dr. Samuel Betances challenges his audiences to embrace diversity and to work as a team for a better future. His specialty, whether working on women's issues, African-American history month, Hispanic events or the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, is to challenge negative mindsets and offer the solutions for transforming them. Dr. Betances… Read More |
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