Howie Schaffer
Howie Schaffer is a Vice President at Cook Ross Inc. He is a respected speaker, trainer, and facilitator on cutting-edge topics in diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency. His recent content, product, and research efforts focus on Exploring Unconscious Bias, Setting the Boundaries of Cultural Competency, Overcoming Diversity Fatigue, and Disability Etiquette: Focusing on Ability. Howie is an esteemed personal counselor and executive coach. His areas of focus include: Succession Planning for Women of Color, Multicultural Marketing, The Business Case for Hiring People with Disabilities, How to Strengthen Intergenerational Teams, Re-Invigorating Employee Resource & Affinity Groups, Global Diversity 101, and Using Mentoring to Increase Your Diversity Advantage. Previously, Howie was Vice President, Communications, Research & Publications at Diversity Best Practices. His areas of key responsibility included diversity branding; press and media outreach; publications development; e-newsletters; diversity research and data collection; benchmarking; speechwriting; and client services. For more than a decade, Howie served as the Public Outreach Director at Public Education Network (PEN) in Washington, DC. He created and edited the award-winning PEN Weekly NewsBlast, oversaw PEN’s online advocacy campaign (GiveKidsGoodSchools.com), supervised, wrote, and edited all print and online communications, and served as PEN’s media spokesperson. Prior to working at PEN, he worked for a variety of political organizations including election campaigns and legislative work. He has taught at the undergraduate level as an adjunct faculty member at the State University of New York Institute of Technology and served as a guest lecturer on diversity topics at George Mason University School of Management. Howie has served on boards of directors and advisory committees for: Cornell University, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Bell Multicultural High School, Good Schools Pennsylvania, and numerous political and marketing campaigns. Howie has an undergraduate degree in communications from Cornell University and a graduate degree in philosophy of education from Teacher’s College at Columbia University. He is a proud husband and the father of two dazzling sons. |
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