Greg Jenkins is a dedicated leader, facilitator, trainer, coach, mentor, and small-business owner, committed to helping people and teams achieve higher performance. Greg completed a successful 28+ year US Army career that included overseas duties in Germany, South Korea, and combat duty in Iraq plus several stateside assignments culminating in Washington, D.C.
Greg is a certified Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), Qualified Administrator (QA) and passionate volunteer who actively mentors and coaches leaders, educators, US military service members, and veterans.
Hear Greg answer these questions:
1. How did you initially get involved with DEI?
2. What was it about your US Army experience that connected you to DEI?
3. In your experience, how does DEI intersect with leadership and team building?
Takeaways
1. What experience can you recall where you felt welcomed, respected, valued, and heard? And, how could you replicate that experience?
2. With our continually evolving US demography, what’s the best way to help the country move forward inclusively?
andra M. Moore is managing director and chief impact officer at Advantage Capital. The firm focuses on high growth and high wage business investing in communities where access to investment capital has historically been hard to find.
Luis Martinez-Fernandez is a Professor of History, University of Central Florida teaching Latin American and Caribbean history. He is a multiple-award winning author who has recently reinvented himself as a syndicated columnist at Creators Syndicate.
Jed Mescon is a relationship builder, brand ambassador, dynamic speaker, creative thinker, persuasive communicator, veteran fundraiser, and community advocate. He is well known in Chattanooga having served as the host of the radio talk show Chewin the Chatt and as the morning news anchor for WRCB-TV.
Cat is Vice President, Clinical Transformation, Immunology and Integration Leader at Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Jack Myers
MediaVillage’s mission is to advance advertising supported media industry growth through investments in diversity and education, highlighted by the industry’s first-ever Advancing Diversity Week that took place September 2021, culminating with the 4th annual Advancing Diversity Hall of Honors Induction Experience and inaugural Gen-Z Town Hall Meeting.
Chattanooga Council Against Hate
Originally a professional educator from Ukraine, Fiona Citkin is among the successful women immigrants to the US. She came to America as a Fulbright Scholar studying languages and cultures. She holds 2 doctorates, speaks 3 languages, and has published several books, including the award-winning Transformational Diversity. Fiona is Managing Director of Expert MS Inc. For her latest book, How They Made It in America , she interviewed 100 immigrant women and profiled 18 of them in this book.