Examples of Past Popular 30 to 60 minute Speech Topics:

• Topic 1 – Leveraging Your Hispanic Values in Corporate America - How Hispanic-Americans can and should bring all of their heritage, experience, perspectives and values into their careers to fully benefit themselves and their organizations
• Topic 2 – Memorable Self-Introductions - How presenting the right "personal commercial" no matter who you are (women, minority, etc) can make you more memorable and take you one step closer to being more effective and valued in any setting.
• Topic 3 – Building a Truly Powerful Network - An inspiring and informative discussion on how top networkers across all dimensions of diversity build the connections they need to drive value to their organizations and succeed

Examples of Past Seminar ⁄ Workshop Topics:

• Topic 1 – Ending the Diversity Program Sisyphus Trap- Using a Capability Maturity Model (CMM) approach to measure and improve your company's diversity practices
• Topic 2 – Doing More Then Just Getting More for Your Diversity Budget Dollars- Using a Portfolio Management approach to reduce non-ROI diversity dollar spend and invest more in long and near term ROI producing items
• Topic 3 – Putting Business Rigor into Your Diversity Strategy- How to re-purpose traditional business tools (SWOTs, Backward Planning, CMM,  Budget Portfolio Management, Etc) to put business rigor around your diversity practices (This is a longer seminar that combines and adds to the elements in Topics 1 and 2)
• Topic 4 – ERG 2.0 Taking Your Network to the Next Level- How to designed and develop an Employee Resource Group plan that meets the needs of members and the company (This is a highly focused discussion that results in a clear strategy)
• Topic 5 – Mentors for Everyone- Everyone needs mentors whether they want to go up the ladder or just do a superb job or balance life and work. This seminar teaches participants how to identify the mentors they need and become the protégé that these mentor want to help.

Past Panel Discussion as a Participant and Moderator:

Joe’s thought-stimulating panel responses - when he is a participant - and questions - when he is a moderator - always focus squarely on thought stimulating topics for diversity practitioners, organizational talent development and other executive audiences, such as:

• (1) Seeing and addressing the signs of emerging new best practices
• (2) How B2B companies address their unique diversity opportunities and challenges
• (3) Addressing the converging impact of new media, old media, globalization and diversity
• (4) How to target and drive tangible returns from diversity investments
• (5) Beyond building Human Capital; building Social Network Capital
• (6) Sales Strategy Driven Supplier Diversity (It's not just a procurement program)