Speaker Profile

Michelle T. Johnson

View a printable version of this profile. Location of Speaker: Kansas City, Mo. Fees: $2,000 - $5,000

Specialties:  After Dinner Keynote Panel Consultant - Project Consultant - Process Topics:  Diversity Employment Law Issues Conflict Resolution Career Focus Corporate Culture Speech Titles Managing Up as Well as Down Workplace Karma – How Managers Can Do Right to Do Well How to Talk about Race at Work Cultural Understanding – It’s the Little Things Dealing With Difference About This Speaker: Michelle T. Johnson, author of “Working While Black: The Black Person’s Guide to Success in the White Work Place” published January 2004 by Chicago Review Press. Articles: “The Car Wreck You Can Stop” published in the December 2003 issue of Workforce Magazine “We’ve All Had A Boss Like The Donald” on Black Men In America April 2004 website ________________________ Michelle T. Johnson - Interviewed by newspaper and local radio and television media in Kansas City, St. Louis, Detroit, Philadelphia and Los Angeles on diversity issues "This book examines in an insightful way a delicate and difficult issue the triumph and tragedies of black upward mobility. Don't miss it!" - Cornel West, Author of Race Matters ______________ "I believe all employers should read Working While Black so they might learn how to work more effectively with African American employees. If employers used that knowledge and responded in a meaningful way, the workplace would be much more productive and healthier for all employees." - Kirk P. Perucca, President/CEO, Project Equality, Inc. _____________ "Ms. Johnson's book is well written and full of thought provoking insights. I wish I had this book when I was starting off my career. It should be required reading for every black person entering the work place." - President, Pitney Bowes Global Credit Services ________________________ Michelle T. Johnson's Clients Include: Executive Director of Project Equality President of EEO Networks Director of Affirmative Action of American Friends Service Committee CEO of Corporate Integrity Former president of Kansas City Chapter of National Black MBA Association ________________________ Recent Speaking and Journalism Engagements: "Black Out: The Black Person's Guide to Redefining A Career Path Outside of Corporate America" debuts March 2007, published by Amber Communications Group _____________ Selected by the Kansas City Star to be one of 10 guests columnists to write periodically in 2007 _____________ Guest speaker at SMU campus in Dallas, Texas in conjunction with the Office of Diversity on April 5, 2007 _____________ Panelist at the 30th Annual Black Studies Conference at Olive Harvey College in Chicago, Ill. on April 22, 2007 _________________________ Michelle T. Johnson's Degrees and Certifications: Doctorate of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia, May 1995 Bachelor of Science in Journalism, University of Kansas, December 1986 Civil Mediation Certification, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law’s Center for Dispute Resolution, June 2003 Licensed to practice law in Missouri and Kansas

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