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Michael Brazzel Associate

Michael Brazzel, Ph.D. is an organization development and diversity consultant and coach, economist, former manager in U.S. government agencies, and university educator-researcher. He has consulting, university, and government experience in the areas of: organization development, diversity, evaluation, policy analysis, and university teaching and research.

Michael provides coaching and consulting services to business, government, education, and health care organizations and to unions, professional associations, foundations, and non-profit organizations. He is co-founder and faculty member of the NTL Institute’s Diversity Leadership Certificate Program, co-editor of The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change: Principles, Practices, and Perspectives (2006) and the NTL Reading Book for Human Relations Training (1999), and member of the editorial Board for the OD Practitioner. He has a master’s degree in organization and human resource development from American University/NTL Institute and a Ph.D. in economics from Tulane University.

Michael lives in Columbia, Maryland and can be reached at 301-596-6143 or brazzel@aol.com.

Personal/Professional Philosophy: As a white heterosexual man, I cannot be an effective diversity and inclusion leader without deeply knowing and accepting that

• There are multiple truths, and others’ truths are as valid for them as my truth is valid for me.
• I am both an individual and a member of many social identity groups.
• I cannot go any further with others in diversity and inclusion work than I have already gone with myself.

A Favorite Book: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, bell hooks

A Favorite Quote: “All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.”   — Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lessons Learned: Because we live in a world which is structured for inequality... diversity, inclusion, and the elimination of racism, sexism, and heterosexism are life’s work. There is always more to do and more to learn.

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