Recognized as a gifted, inspirational, and motivational speaker, his insights and commitment to workforce diversity issues rank him as invaluable in empowering leadership in the public and private sector. As a sociologist, educator, and professor of 20 years, he has taught race relations, the U.S. Latino experience, church and society, education and reform, and gender issues. His national and international travels, media exposure, sense of humor and bilingual/bicultural roots greatly enhance his creative commitment to equity and excellence in making diversity a plus for the bottom line.
 
This great motivator was not supposed to make it. Out of the bowels of inner city poverty, stigma of minority group status, violence, welfare, and illiteracy in two languages, he arose.