Mike Davis – NY
Mr. Davis spent 17 years consulting and working in-house in the areas of diversity and inclusion, change management and organization development. He began his career as part of the global diversity and change management practices at Towers Perrin and continued as one of the founding members of The FutureWork Institute and several internal D&I leadership roles before co-founding Global i365.
Mr. Davis has worked in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia designing corporate diversity strategy (particularly strategies that integrate diversity into talent management and organization development strategies), conducting organization assessments, designing and delivering a myriad of diversity education sessions, developing and launching diversity councils and affinity groups, coaching executives and much more.
Mr. Davis has authored articles on various diversity and inclusion issues in publications like Profiles In Diversity Journal. Most recently Mr. Davis was one of the authors of “The Art and Science of Strategic Talent Management In Law Firms”. He is a member of the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals, SHRM and The Conference Board and actively supports many diversity related organizations like The National Association of Women Lawyers, Corporate Council Women of Color, PALS, Students for Educational Opportunity, The Anti-Defamation League’s A World of Difference Institute, The National Black Law Students Association, The National Hispanic Law Students Association and the National Asian Pacific Islander Association. He also serves on, or has served on, several Boards including the Executive Board of the Tri-State Diversity & Inclusion Council, The James J. Dudley Luce Foundation and Georgetown University’s Chief Diversity Officer’s Advisory Board helping to guide the development of the nation’s first full Masters concentration in diversity & inclusion management
Some of the companies Mr. Davis has worked with include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Sodexho, Starbucks, Tyco International, Time Warner, DLA Piper LLP, Skadden Arps LLP, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Genentech, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson and American Express. Mike is also asked to speak at diversity & inclusion related conferences and in-house events. Some recent presentations were given at The World Diversity Leadership Summit in NYC, the “Diversity Pays” conference in Madrid, The Global Women’s Leadership Forum in London, the launch of The Black European Women’s Council (BEWC) in Brussels and the recent celebration of International Women’s Day at the United Nations.
Mike, as he prefers to be called, developed his passion for diversity at an early age in his life, which derived from his experiences in growing up in and eventually starting his own multicultural family. Mr. Davis received a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Le Moyne College and a Masters degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from New York University.
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