An author, speaker, facilitator, business coach, and certified management consultant (CMC), Dr. James O. Rodgers has spent more than twenty years teaching businesses how to utilize the principles of diversity management to drive innovation, superior performance, and better business results overall.

Jim has worked with more than 200 organizations, offering audiences a compelling message in direct, digestible language that uses humor, wisdom, and thought-provoking dialogue to drive his points home. Jim’s focus on how to achieve bottom-line results through the practice of diversity management sets him apart from other thought leaders in the field. He is unique in his ability to balance the hard, strategic, and logical aspects of management theory with the soft, interpersonal, and human-centric skills of management practice.

Key Speaking Topics:

• Diversity + Management = Team Performance
• How Frontline Managers Actually Practice Diversity Management
• The Management Principles That Make a Difference
• How The Under-management Epidemic Affects Workplace Dynamics (And What to do About It)
• Why Culture Matters for All Change Efforts
• The Simple Path to Effectively Managing Diversity