Daniel Penn Associates Senior Consultant LeRoy Thompson has 30 years of expertise in delivering solutions to meet a wide range of organization development, executive coaching, managerial, supervisory, and employee training needs. He works with a broad range of clients in racial equity, diversity, and inclusion. Thompson's work in the public sector has included the U.S. departments of Energy, Interior, Justice, Defense, Agriculture, Treasury, the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, Arlington (VA) County, Riverside (CA) County, and Sarasota (FL) County. Clients include T. Rowe Price, Cox Communications, Marriott Corporation, McCormick, Gannett, the American Bankers Association, the American Cancer Society, United Way of America and local United Ways across the country. In the wake of renewed focus around racial equality, he has facilitated sessions for federal agencies, developed engagement strategies for municipal governments in the selection of new chiefs of police, and created and delivered training curriculums for organization-wide racial equity training to state agencies.
Thompson served in positions at McKinsey & Company, Kepner-Tregoe and Booz Allen and Hamilton. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a master's degree from Columbia University School of Business. His award-winning TV broadcasting and publishing credits include "Written Skills for Business Communications" (AMA-By-Satellite), the book "Mastering the Challenges of Change" and the Strategy and Leadership magazine article "e-Commerce: Changing the Rules of Strategy Implementation". He is a Certified Agile Scrum Master, Certified Virtual Presenter and Certified Virtual Host.