Meet Mauricio Velásquez, MBA
President of The Diversity Training Group
Mauricio serves as a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) strategist, consultant, trainer, sexual harassment prevention trainer, emotional intelligence, unconscious bias, employee engagement/trust trainer, 360/executive coaching, and expert witness. He assists organizations with “winning the war for talent” and “being employers of choice” including Ombudsman/Retention Services (investigations, stay, exit, post exit interviews). DTG’s headquarters are located in Herndon, Virginia.
DTG clients include small and large, public and private organizations. A partial list includes Major League Soccer, Pool Corp, National Policing Institute, Checkered Flag Car Dealership Group, Phillips Schools, Public Sector Risk Management Professionals (PRIMA), Supreme Court, Congress, LOC (AOC), Habitat for Humanity (SHR), MBP, NIST, and Department of Homeland Security. Past clients include Dominion Energy, Fannie Mae, Perdue, The White House, HP, Black & Decker, BP, OMB, SSA, US Coast Guard, NASA, Visa USA and more.
Mr. Velásquez is…
• A graduate of the University of Virginia (B.A., Economics and Psychology – Double Major) and The George Washington
University (M.B.A., Human Resource Management).
• The first diversity consultant/trainer on the internet, reaching tens of millions with our website diversitydtg. com.
• An executive coach brought in to coach executives 1:1. 360 accelerated assessment and coaching – proactive and
reactive.
• A former human resource generalist, also serving as a demographic researcher for the Internal Revenue Service.
• A nationally recognized author, consultant appearing in local, regional, and national publications including American
Diversity Reporter, American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Society for Human Resource Management
(SHRM), the Managing Diversity newsletter, Workforce Diversity Network, IPMA and Profiles in Diversity Journal.
• A past part-time faculty member with the Johns Hopkins University (5 years in PELP), past adjunct instructor at American
University, visiting lecturer with The University of Virginia, The George Washington University, George Mason University,
and Salisbury University, and an instructor for Howard Community, Wor-Wic, and Baltimore City Community Colleges.
• A guest commentator on nationally recognized Fox and Friends, Hispanic Today and dozens of radio stations.
• Featured all over the United States in magazines and newspapers from WSJ to NY Times, WBJ and Diversity Executive.
• A regular contributing author and speaker for Workforce Diversity Network, American Diversity Reporter
• A presenter at national diversity conferences sponsored by Workforce Diversity Network, IPMA, Society for Human
Resource Management, International Quality and Productivity Center, Linkage International, and others.
• Son of immigrant parents, bilingual, Mauricio has lived abroad in several countries and traveled to over 70 countries.
• Author of new book “Tackling Toxicity” and recent E-book D&I Starter Kit and dozens of published articles.
While working as a demographic researcher for the Internal Revenue Service, Mauricio first anticipated the rise of diversity inside and outside the workplace. He had the good fortune to work with Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Peter F. Drucker, Drs. Crosby, Jurand, and Jerry Harvey. Mauricio credits much of his interest in human resource management and the earning of his MBA at George Washington University to their influences.
Mauricio and the DTG team - our focus, our work - has moved DTG toward this nexus or “sweet spot” where valuing diversity and being inclusive in workplace and marketplace intersects with respect, trust, employee engagement and higher performance. They believe if you respect all differences in your workplace, your people feel valued and respected and hence, they are more engaged and perform at a higher level. This is why we often focus on respect, trust, and employee engagement.
Mauricio has trained and educated over 1 million employees, managers, and executives in the areas of diversity, gender equity, mentoring, respect, dignity in the workplace and marketplace, and trust and engagement in higher performance. He has worked in every state but North Dakota and has traveled to more than 75 countries.
Mauricio specializes in hostile or challenging audiences – disarming them and ensuring learning and development. From “Gitmo” to the White House to Law Enforcement to Military to Native American Tribes to Law Firms, Manufacturing, High- “gives back” – Co-Chair, Elimination of Prejudice, Past Chair, Institute for Conservation Leadership, Chair, Omega Alpha Chapter, Pi Lambda Phi, UVA (1st non-sectarian fraternity in US) and he just put out an E-Book.
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