SHIFT*

*driving

diversity

as a vehicle

for success

*the way you look at the world, your workforce, your community.

The world is changing at a faster pace than ever before. It’s smaller, yet bigger. Flat, yet round.

Make sense of it all and give yourself the advantage with Diversity Focus’ Signature Speaker Series: SHIFT.

Understand how global forces can impact your success by shifting your mindset to use diversity as a vehicle for success.

Attend Diversity Focus’ SHIFT speaker series featuring three internationally renowned speakers that will SHIFT how you think about diversity, challenge what you know about it and leave you with a new sense of the future and the global perspective that will

be a requirement for success in the future.

SHIFT*

Frans Johannson, April 8, 2010Innovation Expert and Author, The Medici EffectFrans Johansson is an author, speaker and entrepreneur. Raised in Sweden, Johansson moved to the states and received a BS in environmental science at Brown University and an MBA at Harvard Business School. Johansson later the founded a software company as well as a medical device company. He currently resides in New York City with his wife and daughter.

Carlos Gutierrez, June 17, 2010Former CEO/Chairman of the Board at Kellogg companyFormer Secretary of U.S. Department of CommerceCarlos Gutierrez is a former CEO and Chairman of the Board at Kellogg Company. Gutierrez is the son of Cuban immigrants who started his career at Kellogg in Mexico City doing sales. In 2005, Gutierrez became the 35th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Bush Administration and has been a strong advocate to help free the Cuban people from dictatorship.

Bill Proudman, November 4-5, 2010 with Exclusive Executive WorkshopFounding Partner/COO of “White Men as Full Diversity Partners” ®Bill Proudman became an advocate for diversity upon noticing how disengaged other white male leaders were from diversity efforts in the early 90’s. Proudman worked for Outward bound for over thirty years and became a Founding Partner and COO of White Men as Full Diversity Partners. Proudman currently spends time working in small, direct ways to contribute to global solutions towards poverty, injustice, education and personal empowerment.