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Henry Bourgeois

Mr. Bourgeois has twenty years of experience teaching foreign languages, media production and mass communications in various universities in the United States and Latin America. For the past six years, he has been a training consultant for the Department of Defense in equal opportunity, cultural diversity and intercultural communication issues in the workplace. During this time, he has conducted climate assessment studies, developed curriculum and course materials, and facilitated scores of workshops in the above areas for over 3,500 supervisory and non-supervisory personnel in the Office of the Secretary of Defense/Washington Headquarters Services (OSD/WHS), Defense Protective Service, DOD/IG, the Armed Forces Information Service, the IRS and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Henry has also successfully experimented with new approaches to teaching diversity-related issues and intercultural communication in the workplace by using feature films and literature. Additionally, he designed a five year strategic plan for developing and implementing a comprehensive diversity initiative within OSD/WHS and throughout DOD.

Mr. Bourgeois received an undergraduate degree from Columbia Union college. He earned graduate degrees from Syracuse University, Middlebury College/University of Madrid, the London Film School, and the University of Paris, Sorbonne. He also completed two years of additional post-graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to a well-rounded education in the United States and Europe, Henry has received extensive training in equal opportunity, diversity, communication and cultural competencies for the workplace.