As part of their research, Deloitte*, one of the world’s largest global consulting firms, recognized cultural intelligence as one of the Signature Six Traits of the lnclusive Leader.
We couldn’t agree more. CQ is core to Inclusive Leadership. In fact, CQ is what gives leaders the skills and confidence to effectively lead diverse teams.
Join us for our upcoming webinar on “CQ and Inclusive Leadership.”
Dr. Sandra Upton, VP of Global Diversity Practice, will be joined by a panelists of CQ and Leadership Experts from Harvard to the CEO of a global consulting firm in Switzerland.
Participants will learn:
1) What Inclusive Leadership Is and Why CQ Matters
2) The Characteristics of an Inclusive Leader with high CQ
3) The Consequences when CQ is missing
4) Best Practices for Including Everyone
Cultural Intelligence, or CQ, is the foundation and strategic link to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). As you develop and execute your DEI initiatives within your organization, we recommend doing it one step (or block) at a time. Remember, it’s a journey.
Assess > Explore > Execute > Measure > Sustain
VP, Global Diversity Practice
Cultural Intelligence Center
CEO/Founder
Inclusion Wins
Senior Director, HR Consulting for FAS
Harvard University
President
Tiffin University
Lead Consultant
The Cultural Intelligence Center
VP, Global Diversity Practice
Cultural Intelligence Center
Dr. Sandra Upton is Vice President, Global Diversity Practices with the Cultural Intelligence Center, and is responsible for providing leadership and expertise on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) matters for CQC clients across the globe. She has over twenty-five years of experience training and consulting with businesses, educational institutions, governmental agencies, and non-profits around the globe. She has led CQC’s response to the growing demand from global companies such as Amway, Starbucks, Steelcase, Hallmark, Fiat-Chrysler, Perrigo, Cintas and institutions and schools like Harvard University, London School of Economics, University of Michigan, Queensland University, Stanford University, Cornell University, Boston Public Schools, Dallas ISD, that are committed to integrating CQ into their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Sandra is also the subject matter expert for the Center’s work in unconscious bias and has led the Center’s unconscious bias certification programs across the globe. She is a frequent speaker and consults with numerous businesses and institutions on how to effectively integrate CQ and unconscious bias assessments and training into business and educational settings. She travels frequently and has consulted with organizations and facilitated trainings in places such as Brazil, China, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, and several countries throughout Europe.
She and her husband Robert, are the proud (and excited empty-nesters) of two amazing college-aged children, Alexis and Devin.
CEO/Founder
Inclusion Wins by A. Johnson Partners
Inclusion, organizational effectiveness, behavioral science expert consultant
For over 20 years, Amri Johnson has been instrumental in helping organizations and their people create extraordinary business outcomes. He is a social capitalist, epidemiologist, entrepreneur, executive coach, and inclusion strategist. Amri’s dialogic approach to engaging all people as leaders and change agents (previously at the research division of Novartis, as Global Head of Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion) has fostered the opening of minds and deepening of skillsets with organizational leaders and citizens enabling them to thrive and optimally contribute to one another and their respective organizations.
Currently, as CEO/Founder of Inclusion Wins, he is building a global cooperative of people-focused solution providers whose work are informed and enhanced by inclusiveness.
Amri is currently writing a manuscript for change makers with the intention of systemically embedding inclusion in a manner that is accessible (for all), actionable (unambiguously prioritized), and sustainable (aligned with organizational purpose).
Born in Topeka, Kansas (USA), Amri has worked and lived in the U.S., Brazil, and currently lives in Basel, Switzerland, with his wife Martina and their three kids.
Senior Director
FAS HR Consulting, Harvard University
Gary P. Cormier brings a career of over 35 years’ experience in both Human Resources
and leadership management, the last 20 of which have been at an executive management
level. Gary has had a variety of experiences in leading various departments and functions
through periods of growth and change in a variety of different sectors. Gary has had overall
management responsibility for departments of over a hundred employees all the way down
to small team in an internet start-up and as an interim leader on management consulting
assignments.
Gary’s direct work experience has been in high growth companies (such as Lotus
Development), large enterprise organizations (such as IBM), HR solution providers (such
as BrassRing) and currently in the realm of academia (at Harvard University in a
leadership role as Senior Director of HR Consulting for the main university of Faculty of Arts
and Sciences, managing a team of ten Senior HR Consultants). Prior to this, Gary has also
been a co-founder of a startup company called MyPerfectGig, a recruitment sourcing
technology solution, having raised two rounds of venture funding in the amount of $11M.
Gary has been a marketplace presenter and OD/Management Facilitator on a wide variety
of topics related to HR best practices and innovative approaches to both HR and leadership
management. His work at Harvard University is in the capacity of a facilitator and trainer,
where he also delivers teambuilding sessions utilizing many team and individual
assessment tools.
Education:
Gary has a double BS Degree from Assumption College, Worcester, MA in both Biology & English Literature as well as a Masters in Theological Studies/Pastoral Counseling from Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, MA.
President
Tiffin University
Professional Highlights
Professional Experience
Notable Involvement and Recognitions
Professional Education
Lead Consultant
The Cultural Intelligence Center
Tina is the Lead Consultant, Trainer, and subject matter expert in the corporate sector for the Cultural Intelligence Center. With over two decades of leadership and team development experience, she has an extensive production track record in video games and software development. Extended periods in senior leadership roles while living as an expat in Romania, Sweden, and the UK provided unique cultural insights and experience in enhancing effectiveness as a global leader, facilitator, and coach.
Tina is passionate about sharing the significant benefits of applying the CQ framework to accelerate innovation, excellence, and productivity within organizations. She is also passionate about helping individuals and leaders build more inclusive and collaborative workplaces.
Join us as we take a deep dive into the topic CQ & Inclusive Leadership with an amazing panel of CQ and leadership experts.
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*Deloitte White Paper titled “The six signature traits of inclusive leadership.”
The Cultural Intelligence Center is dedicated to the worldwide assessment and development of cultural intelligence or CQ–a globally recognized way of measuring and improving intercultural effectiveness. It owns the only academically validated CQ assessment in the world and offers certification and training for using the assessment. More information about the Cultural Intelligence Center can be found on our website located at http://www.CulturalQ.com.
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Also in Chicago, our in-person CQ Certification is being conducted by two global experts – Dave Livermore and Linn Van Dyne. If you’ve been wanting to get certified in CQ, learn more here.