Lisa P. Gaynier, Director of Cleveland State University’s Diversity Management Program speaks about effective leadership at Monday Morning`s Jumpstart program for job seekers.
Gaynier has 30 years experience as a business owner, leadership coach and consultant. Her special areas of practice are leadership development, building culturally competent organizations, and executive coaching. In 1997, after three years with the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, Gaynier integrated her business experience with the field of organizational development and founded creativechange.biz. Since 2006, she has been the director of the Master’s program in diversity management, an organizational leadership program for mid-career adults at Cleveland State University.
Gaynier has an MA from Cleveland State University and a B.A. in social science from Michigan State University. Shaker She is also the author of the award-winning cookbook /memoir of Hawaii and its foods, Remembering Diamond Head, Remembering Hawai’i.