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Lee Gardenswartz,
Ph.D.
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Lee
Gardenswartz is a partner in the
management consulting firm of Gardenswartz
& Rowe of Los Angeles, California.
Since 1980, Gardenswartz & Rowe has
specialized in shaping corporate culture
for a variety of clients across the
country, helping them build productive and
cohesive work teams and create
inter-cultural understanding and
collaboration in the workplace.
Lee
is a native of Denver and a graduate of
the University of Colorado at Boulder.
After working as a secondary teacher and
staff development facilitator in the Los
Angeles Unified School District for a
number of years, she returned to academia
and earned her Doctorate of Human Behavior
from the United States International
University in 1981. She wrote her
dissertation on organizational stress and
what a company can do to minimize its
negative effects.
Lee,
and her partner, Anita Rowe, have
co-authored a series of articles and
numerous books: Beyond Sanity and
Survival, a stress management workbook;
What It Takes (1987), a new
model for success and achievement and
Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk
Reference and Planning Guide (1993, 1998) which has served as a
primary guide to organizations in
structuring their diversity initiatives,
providing not only conceptual information
but techniques and tools as well. In
addition to Managing Diversity, which
received the book of the year award from
the Society for Human Resource Managers
(SHRM), they have co-authored Managing
Diversity Survival Guide (1994), The
Diversity Tool Kit (1994), Diverse Teams
at Work (1995, 2003), Lending and Diversity
Handbook, and Lending and Diversity
Workbook (1996), Managing
Diversity in Health Care, (1998)Managing Diversity in Health Care Leader's Guide (1999) and The Global Diversity Desk Reference (2003) They also write a regular
column in Managing Diversity and Mosaics
newsletters, have written articles on
diversity for publications such as
Physician Executive, College and
University Personnel Journal and Cultural
Diversity at Work and have been featured
in Personnel Journal.
Among
Gardenswartz & Rowe's clients are
Nissan, GTE, Southern California Gas
Company, IRS, Lucent, The Los Angeles
Times, The Home Depot, Kaiser Permanente,
National Atmospheric & Oceanographic
Administration, Mattel, Walt Disney World,
State of California Department of Health
Services, British Telecommunications, and
The Prudential. Anita and Lee have
lectured widely, giving keynote speeches,
facilitating team building retreats and
teaching seminars across the country. They
have made guest appearances on such
programs as Mid-Morning LA, CNN's News
Night, Sun Up San Diego, AM Northwest,
Crier and Company and the Michael Jackson
show. Gardenswartz & Rowe's principals
also continue to teach about diversity,
not only through training in client
organizations, but also through
institutions such as the
Intercultural Communication Institute in
Oregon.
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Anita
Rowe, Ph.D.
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Anita
Rowe is a partner in the management
consulting firm of Gardenswartz & Rowe
of Los Angeles, California. Since 1980,
Gardenswartz & Rowe has specialized in
shaping corporate culture for a variety of
clients across the country, helping them
build productive and cohesive work teams
and create inter-cultural understanding
and collaboration in the workplace.
Anita
Rowe is a native of Los Angeles and a
graduate of UCLA. After working as a
secondary teacher and staff development
facilitator in Los Angeles Unified School
District for a number of years, she
returned to academia and earned her
Doctorate of Human Behavior from the
United States International University in
1981.
Anita,
and her partner, Lee Gardenswartz, have
co-authored a series of articles and
numerous books: Beyond Sanity and
Survival, a stress management workbook;
What It Takes (1987), a new
model for success and achievement and
Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk
Reference and Planning Guide (1993, 1998) which has served as a
primary guide to organizations in
structuring their diversity initiatives,
providing not only conceptual information
but techniques and tools as well. In
addition to Managing Diversity, which
received the book of the year award from
the Society for Human Resource Managers
(SHRM), they have co-authored Managing
Diversity Survival Guide (1994), The
Diversity Tool Kit (1994), Diverse Teams
at Work (1995), Lending and Diversity
Handbook, and Lending and Diversity
Workbook (1996), Managing
Diversity in Health Care, (1998), Managing Diversity in Health Care Leader's
Guide (1999) and The Global Diversity Desk Reference (2003). They also write a regular
column in Mosaics newsletter, have written articles on
diversity for publications such as
Physician Executive, College and
University Personnel Journal and Cultural
Diversity at Work and have been featured
in Personnel Journal.
Among
Gardenswartz & Rowe's clients are
Nissan, GTE, Southern California Gas
Company, IRS, Lucent, The Los Angeles
Times, The Home Depot, Kaiser Permanente,
National Atmospheric & Oceanographic
Administration, Mattel, Walt Disney World,
State of California Department of Health
Services, British Telecommunications, Starbucks, Toyota, and
The Prudential. Anita and Lee have
lectured widely, giving keynote speeches,
facilitating team building retreats and
teaching seminars across the country. They
have made guest appearances on such
programs as Mid-Morning LA, CNN's News
Night, Sun Up San Diego, AM Northwest,
Crier and Company and the Michael Jackson
show. Gardenswartz & Rowe's principals
also continue to teach about diversity,
not only through training in client
organizations, but also through
institutions such as the
Intercultural Communication Institute in
Oregon.
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