ADAMS - Key Persons

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• Founder of GAR ( Gender, Age, and Race ) Diversity Consulting

Dr. Adams is the Founder of GAR (Gender, Age, and Race) Diversity Consulting, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an expert in organizational development and has a great passion for workforce diversity and inclusion. She consults with technology, healthcare, educational services and government clients throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. She is a former director in the National Diversity & Inclusion Office at Kaiser Permanente (KP), ranked #1 in the 2016 DiversityInc Top 50 survey. Before KP, Dr. Adams worked for ten years as a global management and technology consultant. She holds a Doctorate of Psychology degree in Organization Development. Dr. Adams is the author of the forthcoming book: Women, Minorities, and Other Extraordinary People: The New Path to Workforce Diversity. She has been featured in The Sacramento Bee; SiliconValley.com; WallStreetSelect; Miami Herald; MercuryNews.com; and SignOn San Diego. She resides with her family in Northern California. Contact her at www.drbarbadams.com Dr. Adams is a former director in the National Diversity and Inclusion office at Kaiser Permanente (KP). KP is consistently ranked in the top 5 of the Top 50 companies in the annual DiversityInc survey. Dr. Adams maintained responsibility for inclusive leadership development, execution of unconscious bias learning solutions to a workforce of 175,000 people, and design of a virtual leadership academy for multicultural business resource groups. She is a past member of National Speakers Association.