Lenora Billings-Harris, is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), diversity consultant and author of The Diversity Advantage: A Guide to Making Diversity Work. With more than twenty five years of experience in the public and private sectors, Lenora has developed a unique way of presenting sensitive topics in a fun, thought-provoking and non-judgmental way. Her interactive style, and immediately applicable "how to's" have caused clients to invite her back again and again. She designs and delivers presentations and helps facilitate diversity initiatives for Fortune 500 companies as well as professional associations and educational institutions.

Lenora is the 2006-2007 president of the National Speakers Association.

She served as an adjunct professor for Arizona State University, and is currently on the adjunct faculty of the Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Lenora has presented to audiences in South Africa, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean, Canada and the South Pacific as well as all across the United States.

Before founding Excel Development Systems, Inc. a full service diversity consulting firm, in 1986, Lenora held several key positions with CIGNA, General Motors and the University of Michigan.

Whether through keynotes, half-day workshops or multi-day seminars, Lenora's thought-provoking presentations are lively, positive and non-judgmental.

• Inclusion and Diversity: The Oz Perspective - Lenora uses the characters of the Wizard of Oz as a metaphor to help you understand how you can use your brain, heart and courage to make a real difference in today's multi-cultural world. This fun, yet thought-provoking message will inspire you to embrace the gifts you have and to value the gifts of others to increase your organization's options for multicultural success.
  
  
• The Diversity Advantage: Turning Barriers into Bridges - This highly interactive, thought-provoking, yet and results-oriented, program provides an opportunity for participants to explore the biases of our society's "isms," such as racism, sexism, ableism, and ageism, as well as homophobia and other prejudices that impede productivity in the workplace. Participants of this program will be better equipped to improve their cultural competencies to enhance performance when they return to their organization.
  
  
• From Adversaries to Allies: Gender Communication in the Workplace - This fun presentation will help you improve your communication skills with the opposite gender. You will explore ways to say what you mean in a way the other gender will understand. This insightful session will help both men and women learn how to express themselves in a way that improves results. By practicing techniques that recognize communication differences without value judging, you will discover your own hidden communication strengths.
  
  
• Transformational Diversity Management - This presentation offers participants an opportunity to enhance awareness and understanding of Transformational Diversity Management Principles™ based on the work of Lenora Billings-Harris, CSP in her book The Diversity Advantage: A Guide to Making Diversity Work, and her research with the University Of North Carolina-Greensboro.

Books by Lenora Billings-Harris...
The Diversity Advantage: A Guide to Making Diversity Work