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Faculty
Evangelina Holvino, Ed.D.
Evangelina is President of Chaos Management, Ltd. and Director of the Center for Gender in Organizations,
Simmons School of Management. She has worked in the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Latin America
and the Caribbean since 1979 specializing in collaborative approaches to organization change and social
justice.
She has consulted to a wide range of for-profit and non-profit organizations in areas such as:
developing a nationwide network of health change consultants in Nigeria, designing and implementing global
diversity strategies, developing and conducting managing differences and power educational programs, and
facilitating strategic planning processes.
She has served as faculty at the School for International
Training in Vermont, the American University/NTL Master's Program in human resource management, and has
designed and co-taught courses at the University of Massachusetts in multicultural organization development
and organization development in alternative settings.
Evangelina has a doctorate in organization development
from the University of Massachusetts and is a member and former board member of the NTL Institute and the
Boston Center of the A.K. Rice Institute. She designed and facilitated three previous workshops for Hispanics.
James Cumming, Ed.D.
James is a director of Chaos Management, Ltd. with over 25 years of experience working as an international
educator and consultant in technical, intercultural contexts within both public and private sectors in Europe, Asia,
Africa, Middle East and the United States.
He brings extensive experience facilitating multicultural and multinational
groups and addressing issues of language, culture and power differences. He also specializes in creating effective
conditions for dialogue, learning and change in groups, organizations and communities, using large group approaches
such as the Future Search Conference.
James has master's degrees in design engineering and international management,
and a doctorate in international education from the University of Massachusetts. He is adjunct faculty at the School
for International Training. Other professional affiliations include: Future Search Network, The International Society
for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations; The International Foundation for Action Learning; and The Multicultural
Mediation Team of the University of Massachusetts.
James
is the creator of the Problematic
Moment Approach to finding underlying meaning
in group dialogue.
Bernardo
M. Ferdman, Ph.D.
is Professor at the San Diego campus of the California School of
Organizational Studies (CSOS) at Alliant International University. He has 20 years of experience as
a consultant, teacher, and writer on issues of diversity and multiculturalism, ethnic and cultural
identity in organizations, cross-cultural communication, Latinos/as in the workplace, and organizational
behavior, assessment, and change.
At Alliant, in addition to teaching, doing research, directing
dissertations, and consulting to organizations, Bernardo has served as Program Director and led The
Border Project/El Proyecto de la Frontera. Bernardo has conducted workshops and consulted for a variety
of organizations, including Alcoa, The World Bank, Burger King, Bell Atlantic, Verizon,
Hilton Hotels Corporation, City of San Diego, the Federal Aviation Administration, and San
Jose State University.
He has published over three dozen books, articles, and book chapters,
and made more than 80 presentations at professional conferences in the areas of ethnic, cultural,
and gender diversity, diversity training, and organizational psychology. Bernardo has been
affiliated with Chaos Management, Ltd. since 1999 and with Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.
since 1989. Bernardo currently serves as President of the Interamerican Society of Psychology (SIP)
and is the Program Chair for the Academy of Management's Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division.
He is also a Charter Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. From 1986 to 1993
he taught at the University at Albany, SUNY, in the Departments of Psychology and of Latin American and
Caribbean Studies. Bernardo received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University in 1987, and completed
his undergraduate degree at Princeton University. Bernardo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was
raised there, in New York City, and in Puerto Rico. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Andrea Szulik,
and their two children.
Josephine H. Gallagher, M.A.
Josephine is an independent organizational development (OD) consultant with a proven,
28-year track record in Human Resources, building and leading teams and developing programs to improve business
efficiency. This includes independently consulting with business leaders to assess, design, and deliver
business-specific training, implementing change initiatives, facilitating global teams to function more
effectively, designing leadership development and training programs, and leading business process
re-engineering projects.
Josephine has held various senior-level positions in such industries as
chemical, computer, telecommunications and publishing. She has created Global Training and Organizational
Development functions at Union Carbide, Hewlett-Packard, Global One, Scholastic and Vialog. As an internal
consultant responsible for the diversity initiative at Union Carbide, she developed and executed a diversity
management strategy and communication plan to improve the reality and perception of workforce diversity that
included executive commitment, employee involvement, measurement, education, and communications.
She is a
member of the Joan Goldsmith OD Consultant team; proposing, designing, and facilitating solutions to
overcome gaps in skills and knowledge needed to achieve business goals in Cuba. Committed to promoting
intercultural awareness and a harmonious and productive environment in the workplace, Josephine leads
seminars in a variety of contexts focusing on team building; integration of new corporate cultures;
leveraging multiculturalism; and sharing business tools and concepts to optimize communication, change,
and efficiency in the workplace.
She is Afro-Cuban and fluent in Spanish and French. Josephine has a
bachelor's degree and New York teacher certification from Marymount Manhattan College and a master's
degree in French and Spanish Literature from the City University of New York. She resides in Reston,
Virginia with her husband Richard and two sons.
Plácida
I. Gallegos, Ph.
Pl�cida is a social psychologist who has spent her career in academia and organizations working to
create healthier, more inclusive cultures where people can thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
Pl�cida has worked extensively in a wide range of corporate clients across the country including
manufacturing, insurance, financial and educational institutions. She provides organizational
consulting to companies in the areas of strategic culture change, supervisory and management skills,
leadership styles, career development, conflict management and team building.
Pl�cida attended Loma
Linda University and received her master's degree in marriage, family and child counseling in 1981.
She conducted research in organizational behavior and enrolled in the social psychology graduate
program at the University of California at Riverside where she received her second master's degree
and Ph.D. in 1987.
Pl�cida has written articles and presented at numerous conferences throughout the
country on a wide range of diversity and multicultural topics. She is currently on the Board of
Directors of the Kaleel Jamison Foundation. She is also a member of the national Hispanic Women's
organization, MANA, where she serves as Development Advisor to the Board of Directors.
David Luna, MBA, JD
David Luna is an organizational consultant who helps his clients develop and implement strategies in a number of areas,
including workforce diversity, change management, organizational design and planning, and team effectiveness.
He has
served corporations, small businesses, educational institutions, not-for-profit groups and government agencies. As
Director of Diversity for Unicom, a Fortune 200 energy corporation, David redesigned the company's diversity
strategies and improved its national diversity ranking by nearly three quartiles. Some of his other accomplishments
include designing a process for improving the cultural competence of managers throughout the Illinois mental health
system, designing and leading a program to train anti-racism facilitators for a national not-for-profit, and helping
a group of forty department heads develop effective diversity management strategies for Oregon Health Sciences
University.
Earlier in his career, David spent nearly a decade with the Latino Institute, a not-for-profit agency
serving Chicago's Hispanic population, where he held the positions of Director of Advocacy and Director of
Leadership and Organizational Development.
David holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master's degree
in Entrepreneurship, Finance and Electronic Commerce from the University of Illinois. He also received his law
degree from the University of Chicago.
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