Executive Leadership & Life Coaching
ARTS Inc. began establishing coaching clientele in 2005 after founder, Todd Allen, received his certification in Advanced Human Resources Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Early clients included vice-presidents, college deans, PhD candidates, professional clergy, marketing professionals, business colleagues and friends. Recognition of an inherently friendly ability to actively listen, empathize and quickly develop rapport with people of all cultures, experiences, and beliefs, and to establish trust and commitment to achieving their goals, led to a certification in Executive Leadership and Life coaching in 2006 at the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, CA. (HISB)
ARTS Inc. developed its current coaching frameworks through 4 years of work with over 200 international clients in 30 countries as part of its HISB post-certification work. In 2011 ARTS Inc. created and began successfully using the Me Five Coaching Model©, and in 2015 began coaching of small business owners, inventors and entrepreneurs.
Diversity & Inclusion
ARTS Inc. is a global think-tank and professional resource for Diversity & Inclusion business initiatives. Our talents and capabilities in Diversity & Inclusion success consulting include:
• Organizational alignment to vision, mission and strategies
• Connecting diversity initiatives to the highest business-value opportunities
• Executive Leadership Coaching (ELC)
• Defining, designing and achieving Diversity Excellence
• Organizational and cultural assessment
• Optimizing employee job design for maximum contribution
• Managing and communicating change
We apply proven philosophies, tools and methodologies, such as appreciative inquiry, performance gap analysis and continuous improvement. Our own developed tools include the Managing Diversity model, the Diversity Maturity benchmark, Continuous Innovation methodology and the Talent acquisition and New hire onboarding success model.
ARTS Inc. founder, Todd Allen, has been globally recognized and awarded as a passionate and successful change agent and champion for developing and deploying effective diversity and inclusion strategies for over 30 years, and his contributions and achievements include:
- Designing and hosting the first grassroots conference that articulated the value propositions of diversity and inclusion, leading to the establishing of the Johnson & Johnson Office of Diversity, the Consumer Companies New-hire Success Program, and the ASME endowment of the J&J Consumer Companies Diversity Award.
- Facilitating and sponsoring nationwide employee gatherings and conferences that developed the value propositions and proposed position statements of diversity and inclusion, leading to the formation of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation Employee Networks and affinity groups.
- Co-developing the Diversity and Inclusion framework, position statement, and policy for (ASME) the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (140,000 members) and developing strategies and continuous improvement initiatives to double the number of female professional members.
- Co-leading efforts of the Corporate and Foundational Alliance to support the National Science Foundation (NSF) in identifying and disseminating diversity-best-practices at US colleges and universities, and serving as co-Principal Investigator, with the NJ Center for Advanced Technological Education, of a $640k NSF grant to train 600 teachers nationwide in robotics.
- Co-organizing an employee advisory group to advise the President of Shell Oil Company on how best to value and leverage the company’s employee diversity both domestically and globally.
- Leading efforts of the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) to foster partnerships and collaborations with 40 engineering and professional societies to increase diversity effort and develop a portfolio of diversity initiatives that supported the engineering pipeline, i.e. K-12 through professional career.
- Co-organizing grass-root efforts and co-developing strategies that led to the establishing of the Office of Minority Development (OMED) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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