Cultural Agility is us.™

Our DiversityWealth team reflects a range of cultural backgrounds, expertise, and national and international experience. Our insights come not only from education – but are primary: a wealth of lived experience in tandem with our professional expertise.

We have grown and connected with one another and built trusting, established relationships with our clients because our work is also our passion.

We match the best mix of consulting and training talent with every client project, along with staff who ensure ongoing support is strong and adaptable to changing needs.

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Tasnim McCormick Benhalim

Founder & Chief Learning Officer

Tasnim offers over 20 years of experience in diversity, inclusion and cross-cultural work. She is a popular speaker, trainer, consultant and coach recognized for her special talent of putting people at ease and her effectiveness in creating environments that build trust and communication across diverse populations. Tasnim has a strong background in education, diversity and cross-cultural training and facilitation, including a B.A. in humanities from Oklahoma State University and an M.S. in education from the California State University, Fullerton.

She contributed her expertise to clients and students from more than 25 countries at home and abroad, from the North Slope of Alaska to London to Amman to Shanghai and Beijing. She is a dynamic, enthusiastic and highly creative professional with a proven ability to analyze, design, and implement successful initiatives in any culture.

Tasnim continues her frequent travels, and wherever she goes always manages to find time for meaningful conversation over a good cup of tea; these are her favorite moments. She treasures practices that engage her in a rich and full life.

Warner “Terry” Howard

Diversity Leader & Bridge Builder

Terry is a Senior Associate with DiversityWealth. His expertise as a diversity leader, corporate storyteller, writer and bridge builder spans over 30 years working with companies large and small. His career includes 15 years at AT&T in Human Resources and Diversity and 15 years at Texas Instruments as Global Director of Diversity before retiring. While there he supported the TI Diversity Network, along with the black and Hispanic employee initiative groups, and managed external development programs and the awards process for diverse talent and global learning labs.

Terry’s leadership and vision are far-reaching through the Global Diversity Consortium he founded eight years ago. The consortium is a strong community of 50-plus companies where members safely share and openly discuss current trends, issues, and best practices in the diversity field.

Over the last two decades, Terry has conducted a range of learning experiences (initiatives | programs | sessions | forums) and delivered keynote speeches across the U.S., Europe, Asia and India.

Areas of expertise for Terry include cultural agility, culture-based patterns of difference, building trust, performance feedback, workplace bullying, hidden bias, succession planning and developing a personal brand.

His honors include the Corporate Diversity Award from the Society of Black Engineers, the Diversity Champion Award from the University of Texas at Dallas, the Alex Casimiro Empowering Others Award from TI, and MVP-2013 Blog of the Year for his hard-hitting monthly “tough issues” diversity column.

Terry is an avid reader and writer currently engaged in work on his book, “Tap Dancing & Tiptoeing – Navigating the Contemporary Workplace Landscape.” When time allows, he loves fishing and is a fan of “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Columbo” reruns. He adores playing with his two grandchildren and passing on important values.

Ishani Baruah

Cross-cultural Subject Matter Expert & Facilitator

Originally from India, Ishani has lived, worked and raised a child in the US, the UK and France. Her passion for research and development in intercultural training continuously challenges her to incorporate new ideas into the programs she designs for an ever changing global workforce. Ishani has a Master’s Degree in English Literature from Delhi University as well as a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Development from the University of Minnesota.

She has worked as a Global Network Recruiter and her education and life experiences make her an extremely insightful and valuable resource. Ishani is an esteemed contributor on the DiversityWealth program development and facilitation team.

Ishani is fluent in English and Assamese and speaks and understands many Indian languages, such as Hindi and Bengali. She also speaks basic French. She enjoys good food and will travel to eat! Apart from enjoying her mom’s cooking in India, the breads, wine and chocolates in France, the bagels and cupcakes in the US, her food quests and travel interests have led her to England, Guatemala, Canada, Belgium, Amsterdam, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Spain and Turkey.

Mark Gonzales

Senior Facilitator & Designer — Creativity & Innovation

Mark has over a decade of international speaking, facilitation and coaching experience focused on human development, emotional intelligence, sacred education, and design thinking. He’s the premier voice in the role culture has in reshaping genetic memory. His portfolio of clientele has spanned 14 countries and includes The Institute of Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, commissioning a class that engages the relationship between global culture and personal power and multiple TEDx talks on the ability of words to heal intergenerational trauma. His design and development work includes the World Islamic Economic Forum held in the U.K. and a training series on Maximizing Idea Capital for young social entrepreneurs.

In 2014, Mark co-founded the Institute for Narrative Growth, an online learning platform for advancing story-based approaches to human identity, global health and wellness. The Institute provides personal and professional courses to cultivate storytelling documentation for young families and elders to preserve family journeys. The Institute offers training to creative and health practitioners in non-medically invasive techniques for mental health. Each of these strands of work is done by focusing on the primary engine of human behavior and development: story.

While Mark’s work takes him around the world, he remains connected to and is extremely proud of the small village in central Mexico his father’s grandparents came from, his childhood town in Alaska, and the village in Tunisia his wife is from. As with so many of us, these are the places that make him smile for they are the ones that he calls home.

Morgan May

Multi-lingual Expertise — Facilitation — Project Management

Morgan May is a diversity and multilingual (Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian) educator and web developer. She has a background in second language acquisition and management information systems, specializing in information and instructional technology, linguistics, and diversity.

Morgan’s career has included work on international virtual teams as a programmer and quality assurance analyst for small start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Morgan has lived, worked, and studied in several countries in Africa, Asia, Central America, and Europe. She holds a Bachelor’s degrees in Management Information Systems and Foreign Languages as well as a Master’s degree in Education from SMU.

Morgan is currently a lecturer on multicultural studies, human diversity and English as a Second Language (ESL). She also conducts private executive language coaching in English, French, Spanish, and Japanese.

In her spare time Morgan serves as a volunteer for the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth and the Dallas Museum of Art. In addition, she is Advisory Director of City Credit Union. She finds it rewarding to serve the communities in which she lives whether at home or abroad.

Amy Perez Ortiz

Business Development Consultant

Amy consults from 18 years of experience in business development, diversity and inclusion, customer service, communications, and leadership. Amy partners with clients to understand their business issues and goals to create inclusive and high performing work environments to provide maximum business results. She has a passion for quality program content that delivers innovative and positive behavior change. By understanding clients unique cultures and specific needs, Amy is able to direct implementation steps to achieve goals. She works with each client to develop an action-oriented, practical, and successful solution with measurable long-term results. Amy is an accomplished relationship builder with diverse industry experience from the C-Suite to the front lines. She has success in delighting the most discerning clients.

Amy has strong interests in diversity and inclusion, culture, philanthropy, community affairs, arts, language, education, travel, environmental issues, botanicals and wellness. Through everything she does, Amy is committed to creating positive change in the world. With a bilingual family, Amy regularly speaks Spanish in her home and volunteers at the International Spanish Language Academy (ISLA). Inspired by her own family, she is exploring writing a bilingual children’s book focused on cross-cultural families. However, as she’s continually improving her driving skills – there’s not much time to write!