MEET AL VIVIAN
THE DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP EXPERT
DIVERSITY, PATRIOTISM, BUSINESS and LEADERSHIP
DIVERSITY, PATRIOTISM, BUSINESS and LEADERSHIP
Connecting people across their cultural differences has always been my passion. My father was a member of Dr. Martin L. King Jr.’s personal executive staff. I had the blessed opportunity to grow up getting to know the legends of the civil rights movement. The people who helped shape this nation into the true democracy it had always professed to be.
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My parents raised me to believe that “… everyone is responsible to contribute to the society in which they live”. This value-set led me to join the Army where I earned the rank of captain and served for eight years. No organization develops leaders better than the U.S. Army. As a result, while there I learned first-hand the vast difference between management and LEADERSHIP.
Throughout my professional life, I have witnessed many good, well intentioned people limit their success because they were unable to fully engage their people.
Not because they weren’t good leaders, but because they lacked the competencies to engage across cultural differences. I’ve spent the past 29 years helping my clients (CNN, Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, Ford Motor, National Security Agency, U.S. Army, etc…) create diversity competent leaders at every level of their organizations.