Bio

Julie O’Mara is transitioning into retirement -- thus, semi-retired. She is available for pro bono DEI consulting and information and sales about the DiSC products. She is coauthor of the free Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB): Standards for Organizations Around the world along with Alan Richter, PhD, and Nene Molefi. It may be downloaded at www.centreforglobalinclusion.org She has mostly retired from O’Mara and Associates, an organizational development consulting firm specializing in leadership, workplace effectiveness, facilitation, and the managing diversity process. She is retired as founder and voluntary ED of The Centre for Global Inclusion. She is a shareholder of and served on the Board of Directors of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, an independent publishing firm with a mission to connect people and ideas to create a world that works for all. As a Wiley Authorized Partner, she uses and distributes learning tools including the DiSC products. A former National President of the 50,000-member American Society for Training and Development (ASTD, now ATD, the Association for Talent Development), Julie has been a volunteer leader for ASTD/ATD since 1977. She also belongs to the Organization Development Network and the Society for Human Resource Management. For 10 years she was adjunct faculty at U.C. Berkeley Extension and John F. Kennedy universities. She is an Emeritus Member of the Diversity Collegium, professionals dedicated to advancing the field of diversity & inclusion through research and learning; and a Sponsor Emeritus of Diversity 2000, a learning community of diversity professionals. She is coauthor of Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage, a bestseller published by Jossey-Bass in 1991; and author of Diversity Activities and Training Designs, a manual of activities, lecturettes, and guidelines for effective diversity training, published by Pfeiffer and Company in 1994.