Julie O'Mara

Julie O'Mara is a renowned organizational development consultant, leadership expert, and diversity and inclusion champion. She is the President and Board Chairman of The Centre for Global Inclusion and President of O'Mara and Associates, her consulting firm that specializes in leadership, workplace effectiveness, facilitation, and managing diversity.

Julie is a strategic thinker who is certified to use the Leadership 360, Strategic Directions, and leadership coaching processes of the Management Research Group, where she is an associate. She is also a Wiley Authorized Partner, using and distributing learning tools such as the DiSC products.

Her professional achievements include serving as a volunteer leader of the American Society for Training and Development since 1977, where she was once the National President. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and belongs to the Organization Development Network.

Julie is the co-author of Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage, which was published by Jossey-Bass in 1991, and the author of Diversity Activities and Training Designs that Pfeiffer and Company published in 1994. In 2006, she co-authored the Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks with Alan Richter, providing standards for organizations worldwide.

Julie holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the University of Missouri and was formerly an adjunct faculty at U.C. Berkeley Extension and John F. Kennedy universities. She is an Emeritus Member of the Diversity Collegium and a Sponsor Emeritus of Diversity 2000 and currently serves on the Society for Human Resource Management's Task Force to develop Diversity and Inclusion Standards.