"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Gandhi
Providing organizations with a comprehensive, strategic, business-relevant diversity and inclusion process that benefits organizations, employees and customers is what PRISM's founder Ms. Linda Stokes envisioned. Her goal was to create a
unique team where dedicated diversity professionals
could applied their business experience, knowledge and passion for creating change in their workforce, workplace, marketplace and community.
Leading PRISM over the past 15 years, she has built an organization that serves over 1.25
million employees in over 160 organizations in
nineteen countries on six continents with services and programs offered in a variety of languages and dialects for organizations such as Verizon, MasterCard, Alaska Airlines, IBM, Siemens, We Energies, John Deere, Unilever Best Foods, General Dynamics Land Systems, Medtronic and Michelin North America to name a few. In addition to her roles as PRISM's President & CEO, author, speaker and executive consultant, Linda enjoys volunteering in her community providing diversity training to
Central Florida elementary schools.
Linda has received the Orlando
Women's Executive Council's Award for Business
Ms.
Janice Bowman is the President of PRISM's newest division the Association of Diversity Councils. With over 18 years of organizational leadership in workforce diversity/inclusion, Janice leads the division's business and content development. She is
one of the country's leading diversity council experts. Her most recent article "Winning the Race for Diverse Talent: the Role of the Diversity Councils" appeared in "Diversity Best Practices Winning the Race for Diverse Talent: A Major Report "while a recent presentation was featured by the Society of Human Resources in
their published Workplace Diversity Library Case/Studies/Best Practices. As the former Manager of Workforce Diversity for We Energies, a Wisconsin Fortune 500 utility, she provided
diversity leadership by converting their tactical diversity process to a strategic approach that linked to business
objectives, directed the implementation of Employee Network Groups and
developed the company's first diversity scorecard.
Mr.
Erv Walker is Senior Vice President of Client Relationships at PRISM.
In addition to his sales role, Erv provides
assessment services, executive consulting and
contributes to new product/service
development. Prior to joining PRISM, he was the Director of Client Services at Novations where he provided
diversity consulting, training and business development services. Prior to Novations, Erv enjoyed a 30 year career with the BellSouth Corporation and its subsidiaries where he held numerous senior leadership positions.
Alan Partin is Vice President of Client Relationships at PRISM. His career experience spans Banking, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Security, Sales and Marketing. Before coming to PRISM, Alan discovered the bottom line impact that can be achieved by leveraging a diverse workforce to meet marketplace goals.
He started a Hispanic sales force to serve the emerging
Hispanic market and was able to increase company's sales by 20%. Because of his innovation and success, Alan was appointed to the company's President's Advisory Board.
Bobby Gordon is Vice President of Client Relationships at PRISM. He is a former cultural diversity practitioner with the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) where he developed, revised and conducted training for managers and senior military leaders in communications, organizational effectiveness and conflict resolution. His DEOMI experience took him to over 30 states and US territories and Germany and South Africa. Directly responsible for the needs analysis, instructional design, and leadership duties on diversity seminars for requesting civilian and military organizations, Bobby served as a participating think tank panelist in developing strategies on increasing the diversity of the Army and Air National Guard.
Natalie Pesantez
is the Membership Coordinator for the Association of Diversity Councils. She provides years of customer service experience gained from working in healthcare services, telecommunications and retail. Natalie came from the parent company PRISM International, Inc., where she was involved in many aspects of diversity and council work.
Marsha Pangburn is Manager of Customer Fulfillment at PRISM. She oversees the production and customization of client training materials; the shipping and successful delivery of client training materials; the scheduling of training and consulting personnel to client sites; invoicing and reorder processing. Throughout her nine years with PRISM, Marsha and her team have establish a consistent 99.9% annual quality service record for meeting production, shipping and delivery goals.
"Each person must live their life as a model for others." - Rosa Parks
Inclusion & Involvement is one of the six PRISM Values developed and written by PRISM team members. This value challenges PRISM team members to incorporate their various perspectives, skills, experiences, backgrounds, knowledge and talents to improve and expand team thinking and enrich products, services and lives. PRISM team members demonstrating these traits include Mr. Sam Smith, former Manager of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action at IBM; Dr. Harold Belcher, former Corporate Diversity Consultant at SBC;
and Ms. Kelly Thayer, formerly with the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI).
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"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle
Community is another of the PRISM Values. Living the Community Value, PRISM team members give back their money, time, interest and talents to their community. On the
right, Natalie Pesantez, Membership Coordinator for PRISM's
division - the Association of Diversity Councils and
PRISM Vice President Alan Partin volunteers in the warehouse during the Sanford Salvation Army
Christmas Toy drive.
"The future belongs to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment..." - Robert Francis Kennedy
Customer Focus, Quality, Respect and Honesty & Integrity conclude the remaining four PRISM Values. PRISM team members pledge a personal commitment to ensure that relationships demonstrate professionalism and caring and that communication with each other and with customers is clear and correct. PRISM team members exemplifying a high commitment to these values include Dr. Darshana V. Nadkarni, Dr. Christine A. King and Mr. Miguel Valenciano.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
PRISM's customers know that they are doing business with more than just a company. They are partnering with the PRISM Team -
65 dedicated people who have demonstrated corporate diversity and cross cultural knowledge and experience, compassion and commitment to be the change that makes the difference.
Some PRISM Team Members breaking for a photo during the 2008 Company Annual Meeting.
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