Who is Mauricio
Velásquez?
 Mauricio
Velásquez is the President of The Diversity Training Group (DTG)
in Herndon, VA. Mauricio serves as a diversity trainer, sexual
harassment prevention trainer, executive coach, mentoring trainer,
expert witness, and assists organizations with multicultural
marketing, selling, and customer service.
DTG's
clients include small and large, public and private organizations.
A partial list includes Coca Cola, International Franchise
Association, Quest Diagnostics, and Liberty Mutual, Visa USA,
Association, General Electric Financial Assurance,
Hewlett-Packard, Humana Inc., IBM Canada, Lucent Technologies,
Merrill Lynch, National Institute of Standards & Technology,
Department of Interior, National Security Agency, National
Wildlife Federation, and Ryland Homes.
Mr.
Velásquez is.....
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a
graduate of the University of Virginia (B.A. Economics and
Psychology) and The George Washington University (M.B.A.
Human Resource Management). |
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an
expert witness listed with the Technical Advisory Service
for Attorneys (TASA). |
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the
first diversity consultant/trainer on the internet, reaching
millions with his website DiversityDTG.com. |
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a
nationally recognized author appearing in local, regional,
and national publications including American Society for
Training and Development (ASTD), Society for Human Resource
Management (SHRM) publications, the Managing Diversity
newsletter, and Profiles in Diversity Journal. |
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a
teacher at American University, a past part-time faculty
member with the Johns Hopkins University, visiting lecturer
with The George Washington University, and instructor for
Howard Community and Baltimore City Community Colleges. |
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a
guest commentator on Curtis Court T.V., a nationally
recognized court T.V. show and has been interviewed on over
30 radio stations nationwide. |
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featured
all over the United States in magazines such as Landscape
News, NM Pro, The Scientist, Overhaul & Maintenance,
Graduating Engineer, and Baltimore Business Journal and
newspapers such as the Baltimore Sun, Daily Record,
Washington Times, New York Times, and Supermarket News. |
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the
past Area II Diversity Director for SHRM, and the editor of
the newsletter, "Diversity Alive."
very proud of the breadth of DTG's work in non-profit
sectors, from law enforcement agencies to Native American
tribal organizations. |
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bilingual
and has lived abroad in several foreign countries and
traveled to nearly thirty countries on three continents. |
Mauricio
is a former human resource generalist and also served as a
demographic researcher for the Internal Revenue Service where he
first anticipated the rise of diversity inside and outside the
workplace. He has had the good fortune to work with Dr. W. Edwards
Deming, Peter F. Drucker, and Jerry Harvey. Mauricio credits much
of his interest in human resource management and the earning of
his MBA to their influences.
Mauricio
has trained over 250,000 employees, managers, and executives in
the areas of diversity, gender equity, mentoring, and
multicultural marketing and selling.
Kristine L.
Snyder, M.S.W.
Vice President, Organizational Development
Kristine L. Snyder has over eighteen years experience as an
organizational effectiveness coach and consultant. She assists
organizations achieve their optimum performance through
organizational development methodologies including executive
coaching, performance management, change management, team
building, interpersonal interventions and mediations, diversity
initiative design and implementation. She has worked with
organizations in high technology, government contracting, finance,
health care, utilities, associations and state and federal
government agencies.
Kristine is …
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An
alumnus of Barry University (Master of Social Work, Large
Systems Administration) and the University of Florida (B.A.,
Psychology) |
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An
external consultant and internal director of organizational
development and training addressing various organizational
effectiveness and diversity initiatives |
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An
author of management and leadership development training
materials and facilitates programs in cultural diversity and
diversity awareness, sexual harassment, supervisory,
management and leadership skills, change management, vision,
mission and values, team building, time management, balanced
score card and measurements, behavioral hiring practices,
communication skills, and conflict management |
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A
mediator for interpersonal conflict interventions |
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A
facilitator of executive retreats focused on strategic
planning and corporate alignment initiatives |
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An
award-winning new business developer |
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An
experienced conference speaker and presenter: ASQ Annual
Quality Congress, State of Maryland Department of
Transportation, Clemson University, Professional Development
and Leadership Seminars |
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A
two-year board member for the American Society of Training
and Development, Washington D.C. Chapter |
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Certified
in Organizational Development by Georgetown University,
Myers Briggs Type Indicator, FIRO-B and ISO 900 BSI
Auditor/Lead Auditor. |
Kristine L. Snyder is a role model of servant/leadership as
she coaches others in achieving their maximum levels of
performance.
Willard
W. Eng
Vice
President
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Willard W. Eng has
extensive experience coaching senior executives and managers,
internationally and nationally, in organizational and management
development, organizational reengineering, change management, team
building, quality improvement and developing and implementing
corporate diversity initiatives.
Willard is …
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an alumnus of
the University of San Francisco (Ed.D. ABD, Organizational
Development), California State University, Hayward (M.S.,
Counseling/Educational Psychology), and the University of
California, Berkeley (B.A., Psychology). |
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a human
resources executive and management/organizational development
consultant with over twenty-five years experience. |
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a former Vice
President, Corporate Human Resources and Diversity, for Sony
Pictures Entertainment (SPE). The Corporate Diversity program
he developed at SPE received the 1999 HR Best Practice Award
from the Employers Group. |
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a
past Vice
President of Human Resources for Koh-Operation Inc., former
Director of Human Resources for Deloitte & Touche and former
Director of Career Counseling at the University of San Francisco.
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Willard has
consulted for a variety of corporations, including AT&T,
Pacific Bell, Chevron, General Electric, The Prudential, Merrill
Lynch, Eastman Kodak, Procter & Gamble, Kaiser Permanente,
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom,
Ernst & Young, Arthur Andersen, Department of Energy, Lucent
Technologies, US Forest Service, Federal Aviation Administration,
Tribune/Los Angeles Times, and the Taiwanese Ministry of
Education.
Illysa
Beth Izenberg, M.B.A.
 Illysa
Beth Izenberg, a diversity educator and strategist, conducts
diversity culture audits and needs analyses, devises strategies and
action plans, and facilitates diversity, sexual harassment
prevention, multicultural customer service, and inter-group
communication workshops. She works with each client to better
understand its employees, customers, and other constituencies for a
more productive and profitable future.
Illysa has consulted to corporations, government agencies, and
not-for-profit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. She has trained
employees from the senior executive suite to the factory floor.
Illysa is . . .
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A graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Business (M.B.A., General
Management) and Brandeis University (B.A., English and American Literature;
minor in Education). |
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Certified by A World of
Difference as a workshop facilitator. A World of Difference, a
not-for-profit project of the Anti-Defamation League, is dedicated to
fighting prejudice and bigotry through education. |
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Trained by the National
Conference Dismantling Racism Project. The National Conference focuses on
ending racism-particularly institutionalized racism. |
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Selected to the Clayton City
Government Subcommittee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity. This task force
tackled community-wide diversity issues such as education, neighborhood
cultural composition, and business demographic changes and challenges, and
presented its findings and recommendations to city government leaders. |
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A capable and experienced
trainer and public speaker on the broad subject of diversity, as well as the
specific topics of gender, age, race, sexual and other harassment
prevention, team-development, and others. |
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Experienced in corporate
environments in a range of industries. Ms. Izenberg has had profit-and-loss
responsibility and understands the challenges faced by both front line
managers and headquarter staff. |
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A world and U.S. traveler,
having visited Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. She visited Europe as a
member of a contingent from Harvard Business School. The group's purpose was
to meet with business leaders to discuss the emergence of the European
Economic Community and its possible effects on relationships with American
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Illysa has presented to or
trained over 6,000 employees, managers, and executives in a broad range of
industries including technology, health care, financial services, and retail.
Her practical knowledge in business management enables her to understand
corporate perspectives and business needs.
From the combination of business education and experience comes her belief that
managing and valuing diversity is part of a sound organizational development
strategy.
Kelly N.
Burrello, MSc.
Senior Associate
 Kelly
Burrello strengths lie in her ability to listen to clients and
assist them to assess, and implement resolution approaches that
effectively address their internal issues. She conducts extensive
research in organizational assessment, workforce demographics and
benchmark studies for corporate and government clients such as
Thomas Havey, LLP, ECMC Management Services Corporation, and the
Food and Drug Administration
Kelly
is …
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a graduate of
George Mason University's Institute for conflict Analysis and
resolution (M.S. Conflict Analysis and Resolution) and Trinity
College (B.A., Human Relations). |
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a recipient of the
David L. Boren, National Security Education Fellowship (funded
by the Department of Defense). As an NSEP Fellow she traveled to
Lagos, Nigeria to design and implement a conflict resolution
skills training program for secondary school students. |
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an experienced
facilitator. She has co-facilitated residents of the District of
Columbia as part of the Mayors city-wide initiative to design a
vision for the future of the city's neighborhoods. In addition,
she has facilitated dialogue sessions with women NGO's
representing 13 African countries on topics related to conflict
transformation, and has facilitated dialogue with Ethiopian
youth to address conflict issues in their country and approaches
to resolution. |
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an experienced
mediator. Specifically, she has successfully co-mediated cases
between internal staff of the World Bank; juvenile
victim/offender cases; and has liaised for George Mason
University interns and corporate employers. |
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experienced in the
design and implementation of the workshops on basic conflict
resolution skills, and intercultural communication for corporate
clients, and the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy. |
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is a contributing
writer to the conference reader of the United Nations
Organization on Youth Annual meeting held in South Africa, and
has contributed articles to the Diversity Training Group website
related to diversity issues. |
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a volunteer in her
community, and a mentor to grade school children |
Kelly believes
companies that value diversity are better equipped to effectively
address a variety of workplace issues, such as co-worker disputes,
management and staff relations, and organizational change. She
effectively uses her listening, analysis, and people skills to
assist clients in creating positive work environments for all of
their employees.
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