The Diversity Advantage with Lenora Billings-Harris

February 13, 2015
Hosted by Chris Cooper

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Do you really understand how to make diversity an advantage in your workplace? As my guest Lenora Billings-Harris says 'a diverse workforce can assist organizations in their efforts to penetrate emerging markets, attract and retain the best talent, improve customer relations, and reduce employee complaints and grievances. All of these challenges and opportunities have strong bottom-line implications'. Lenora was named as one of the twenty top influential diversity leaders in the US. Lenora co-authored TRAILBLAZERS: How Top Business Leaders are Accelerating Results through Inclusion and Diversity and is author of The Diversity Advantage. She is also a frequent expert guest on TV and radio globally. Lenora is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), past president of the National Speakers Association, and was the 2014 president of the Global Speakers Federation. Join us to explore diversity and how to fully value, leverage and engage with it from an exceptional diversity expert.

The Business Elevation Show with Chris Cooper - Be More. Achieve More

Friday at 8 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel

The Business Elevation Show provides the inspiration to help you elevate the success of your business, your people and yourself. If you want to grow more successful businesses and teams and become the very best you can be then this show will provide you with the insight and wisdom. It will help you to Be More to Achieve More.

Accessed in over 50 countries each month the show highlights the key principles in business and personal success with guests and host who talk from experience. It’s an energizing, warm and inspiring show that supports your journey to elevated business, entrepreneurial and personal success.

Since 2011 the show has included many very successful high achievers, entrepreneurs, speakers and subject experts from around the world who inspire others to achieve more. The Business Elevation Show airs live Fridays at 8 AM Pacific/4 PM GMT on VoiceAmerica Business.

Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper helps business leaders to elevate the performance of their business, their people and themselves. With a background in major brands such as Mars Inc he worked in sales, mar-keting, HR, training, procurement and logistics to board level. His first consultancy became a multi-million pound business within 3 years.

Today, Chris helps business people elevate performance through consultancy, coaching, training, professional speaking, writing and broadcasting. His coaching programme ‘The Elevation Programme’ has helped many business owners to profitably grow their businesses since 2008.

As a speaker he talks about lessons from his book ‘The Power To Get Things Done (Whether You Feel Like It Or Not) co written with Dr Steven Levinson (published by Penguin Random House USA in December 2015).

His radio show is accessed in over 50 countries and has aired since 2011, making him a highly experienced on-line radio host. Having undertaken hundreds of interviews with international ex-perts and thought leaders he has been described as one of the most credible business experts in the UK. Chris lives in Leicestershire, England with his wife Ruth and two young boys. Hobbies include taking his soccer mad eldest son to watch Leicester City FC, playing rock guitar, keeping fit, fly fishing and transforming his Victorian home and garden into a beautiful space.

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