Dee
Wood
Director - Workforce Inclusion at Delta
Technology
 A
dedicated educator, trainer, corporate executive and Human Resources professional
Dee Wood is widely recognized as a leading edge expert in the arena of
organizational development, inclusion and cultural change. She is a prolific
motivational speaker and delivers her messages
with poise, tenacity and fervor.
Dee Wood is
currently Director - Workforce Inclusion at Delta Technology. Her role
is to provide leadership, strategy development for an inclusive culture,
diversity training initiatives, delivery of cultural awareness programs,
consulting, etc. She joined Delta Air Lines in January 2000 from Raytheon
Systems Company where she had served as the Director of Diversity from
June 1998 to December 1999. Before joining Raytheon she spent eight years
with the General Electric Company, developing innovative cultural awareness
and diversity training across GE. By 1997, she had developed the initiatives,
processes, employee culture and associated behaviors to a “best
practice” status with other companies clamoring for the prototypes.
Ms. Wood, has
a broad experience in diversity leadership roles. She spent over fifteen
years in the Exxon Corporation as an employee relations specialist through
senior employee advisor on diversity issues. She was also Vice Chancellor,
Human Resources/Administration at the University of Arkansas. In addition,
she is published in several industry periodicals, including Diversity
Journal, Profiles In Diversity, University Publications, The Conference
Board’s Diversity Council I, and the 1995 fifth edition textbook
– HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Global Strategies For Managing A Diverse
Workforce by Carrell, Elbert, Hatfield – Chapter Three.
Dee earned
a MBA from Columbia University with concentration in Corporate Relations/Public
Policy and Industrial Relations/Organization Behavior and a BA in Business
Administration/Education from South Carolina State University.
Miss. Wood
sits on numerous Boards, including the Black Leadership Forum, African
American Forum, Order of Omega, and served an unprecedented three two-year
terms as National President of the National Pan-Hellenic Council. She
is extremely involved in her church and a myriad of community/non-profit
and professional organizations.
Professionally,
she effectively argues that the core element of cultural diversity/inclusion
in the corporate setting is comprised of five key tenants, each of which
has selective - though not always distinct - application within every
organization. The “pieces” as she refers to them are related
to:
1. profitability/productivity
2. legal
3. social demographics
4. personal value system
5. timing
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