Buying patterns, economics, trends and demographics are changing. Whatever your business, you are in the people business, and the diversity in your business has a wealth of sequestered human capital that can be used to:

• Fuel Growth
• Stimulate innovation, creativity, engagement and...
• Build a unique core competency around diversity of thought

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Is your organization's D&I platform as strategic, successful and sustainable as it can be? Looking to engage more diverse perspectives that lead to breakthrough thinking? Earnest inclusionary practices yield measurable positive outcomes, and tangible organizational benefits. Learn how to effectively link financial results with advanced D&I practices. Let me help you in:

• Diversity Climate Analysis
• Diversity Communication Strategy
• Change Management
• Outreach and Business Alliances
• Diversity Councils
• ERG or Affinity Groups
• Supplier Diversity
• Succession Planning

Where is your organization in the Diversity continuum?

Traditional Diversity & Inclusion "Activities," or generalized annual training, are usually regarded as symbolic events with little return. True Diversity represents intellectual diversity among qualified individuals and not racial or gender diversity for the sake of optics. Equip, encourage, empower and grow your business with my premiere methods to catapult your business to new heights!

Liberate Latent and Suppressed Employee Potential!
Create a Positive Work and Customer Environment
Forge Profitable Ventures
Discover Innovative Paradigm Shifts

It is no surprise that employees play a pivotal role in our businesses but are they as active, engaged and motivated as they could be to realize the best efficiencies? Are they just meeting your organizations expectations of production or are they exceeding your expectations with zeal? Are your team members willing to give you insights into their personal stores of brain power and self-motivation to help improve business? Can your team's level of integration be improved? What is the team maturity level?

Diversity Management

Effective diversity management is both an ethical and business imperative. Diversity is an asset for any entity that values differences and promotes inclusion in spite of superficial identifiers such as race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical disability or other external features.

1. Multicultural Sales and Marketing Objectives
2. Financial/Business Performance Objectives
3. Operational/Functional Objectives
4. Product/Service Objectives
5. Image Enhancement objectives
6. Internal Objectives
7. Other Business Objectives (e.g.- strategic alliances)

"At Google, we don't just accept difference - we thrive on it. We celebrate it. And we support it, for the benefit of our employees, our users, our culture and students interested in the technology industry."

Diversity@Google: A place to be you, Founded by an American and a Russian born American in 1998. Their mission statement was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." 2011 unaudited sales were $37.9 Billion.

My team helps educational institutions, corporations and government entities embrace diversity with an informed view, empowering teams and building stronger relationships. This fun, substantive, educational and interactive training sets itself apart from traditional symbolic programs that are perceived as ineffective, cosmetic and counterproductive. (Source)

Let me show you how!

Benefits

Organizations that implement compelling diversity management initiatives report marked improvements to their profits and goal achievements. The Diversity Index Portfolio, which is based on the performance of the DiversityInc. top 50 companies for Diversity, over a ten year period outperformed the S&P 500 by 24.8% and the Nasdaq by 28.2%. Experience, culture, heritage can offer new ideas, vantage points, markets and improved processes.

Are your team members voicing their opinions, or just "going along?"

Maximize the investment your organization has already made in hiring a team.

"I had all the disadvantages required for success."

Larry Ellison, Oracle founder, College dropout, Billionaire

• Develop and inspire broad multi-cultural relationships
• Expand employee's knowledge, tasks and decision-making responsibilities
• See beyond personal horizons, past personal biases
• Avoidance of legal entanglements
• Understanding, altering, leading and controlling individual behavior
• Team collaboration and greater accountability
• Build social capital
• Tap wells of creativity and "free" intellectual capital
• Profit from efficiency gains

"If the rate of change inside an organization is less than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight."

Jack Welch, Former Chairman and CEO of General Electric

Communication shapes the future of the leader, and the organization. Gain the most competitive advantage possible. Leverage individuality, uncover fresh perspectives, engage and discover intangibles that offer more value, synergy and loyalty.


Employees generally clamor for Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose!
If they are guarded, self-censorship is at play.

• Encourage creativity,
• Enhance productivity,
• Spawn greater motivation,
• Build solid relationships and favorable publicity
• Reap savings from a variety of diverse suppliers
• Decrease EEO complaints/Lawsuits
• Increase employee engagement and retention,
• Inspire and drive innovation from the "knowledge workers" in your organization

Organizational performance increases in direct proportion to increases in morale, engagement, contribution and efficiency. This organizational effectiveness depends on effective leaders AND managers.

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker

Poor Morale

Sears showed that employee attitudes are directly related to customer retention where a 0.05% rate of employee dissatisfaction equaled a 1.3% rate of customer dissatisfaction; this relationship translated into a 0.05% revenue loss, or $200 million in lost sales. Unengaged U.S. workers admit to squandering 2.09 work hours per day (price tag for lost productivity: $544 billion annually). (Source)

Mistrust between management and workers

More companies are striving to retain their high performers, who drive their organization's performance, productivity and profitability. Compensation alone though, is not enough to keep the highly skilled, motivated and experienced workforce that your organization needs to excel. The Tangerine Watson Impact Study of 2011 indicated that forty-nine percent of white agency employees intend to remain with their agency for the next two years, compared with just 26 percent of Latinos, 25 percent of Asians, 22 percent of African Americans and 21 percent of other ethnic groups. The issues motivating multicultural employees to jump ship? Lack of diversity, few career advancement opportunities and limited salary potential. The sentiments expressed in a 2010 survey showed that 66% of employees are unhappy with their jobs, (Source) and are planning to leave to remove themselves from what they perceive as either a role without opportunities or an uncaring culture. An uncaring culture and poorly trained management yielded over 100,000 costly discrimination complaints in fiscal 2011 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the highest ever! This trend represents HIGH management risk and must be reversed.

Find out how YOUR Organization can gain with our complete Action Guide and Employee Acknowledgement forms to enhance, protect and build your business.

Introduction

Enrique (Rick) Ruiz is an experienced leader with a proven ability to manage complex simultaneous projects aligning results to organizational goals. PgMP and CM certified. Global expertise spans commercial, defense and IT industries on two continents. Successful Leadership building diverse, dynamic and multicultural teams with workforces up to 15,000 strong. Keynote Leadership and Diversity Management speaker/author.

Living in three countries (two continents) and experiencing several religious faiths from the inside he has been able to educate and unite. Testimonials include United Nations, Fortune 500 and Diversity Consulting Experts. With 4 books... you have a dynamic, entertaining speaker that resonates with multiple business, ethnic and personal cultures enabling the kind of positive change your organization expects.