Dr SUSSMAN Harris

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Harris Sussman is an educator-at-large, galvanizing people's thinking across a wide variety of settings and time zones. He conducts briefing sessions and retreats for leadership teams in many enterprises. His lifelong concern with issues of social conscience is reflected in his speaking, writing, and consulting.

He is a graduate of nontraditional, interdisciplinary programs at Antioch College, the Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School for Social Change, and Union University & Institute. As a student, he met Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. He taught on Hopi, Navajo, and Apache Indian reservations, has been guest instructor at 30 management institutes and universities, and has presented 300 professional development programs to groups in Europe, Canada, Samoa, Russia, and Central America, as well as the USA.

He led a think tank at the world's second largest computer corporation and was chief learning officer of a medical center. Then in 1990 he started a strategic consulting firm. He is known for his discussions of contemporary social conditions and mentality.

He has been writing the most widely-read monthly column on cultural diversity issues in the United States for more than ten years and has published chapters in three books, articles in numerous magazines, and opinion pieces in newspapers and on the Web, as well as a handbook, How Diversity Works, which outlines his model of the multiplier effect of people's diversities, increasing group and organizational capability through creating conditions that release personal and professional qualities.


Proposed themes

- "Understanding the World After 9/11/01"
A new map and compass
- "Which America?"
United or not?
- "Diversity is a Life and Death Issue"
And it's not going away
- "Learning Peace"
The future depends on getting good at it