Hamlin Grange

Hamlin Grange is a dynamic speaker and a skilled facilitator with expertise in managing diversity and cultural competence. For nearly a decade he has helped individuals as well as organizations to leverage diversity to increase their knowledge, awareness and skills and to grow their business.

He is president and co-founder of DiversiPro Inc, a workplace diversity training, coaching and consulting company based in Toronto, Canada. DiversiPro?s clients include television networks, healthcare providers, major corporations and other organizations looking for ways to meet the challenges and reap the rewards of a culturally diverse marketplace.

He is also co-founder of Innoversity and the Innoversity Summit, an international event that allows delegates to share ideas, showcase solutions, successes and breakthroughs in serving a culturally diverse society in a range of sectors, from media to other cultural institutions and corporate settings. www.innoversity.com

As a diversity change management consultant Hamlin facilitates employees and managers in projects related to the integration of cultural diversity into their work and work force. He has led diversity management workshops for senior managers from a wide variety of sectors including, law enforcement, media, public service, healthcare and the private sector.

Before starting a career as a diversity consultant, Hamlin had a stellar career as a journalist. He has been a reporter at Global Television and CBC Television, where he was Assignment Editor, Municipal Affairs Reporter, host, interviewer and news anchor. He was also a reporter at the Toronto Star. Hamlin has hosted two popular television current affairs programs: Workweek, on CBC Newsworld and TVOntario and the CBC?s More to the Story.

Hamlin graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado. After working as a reporter at Denver?s Rocky Mountain News, he returned to Canada as managing editor of Contrast, a black community newspaper.

He has won numerous awards including:

• Co-winner of a B?Nai Brith Human Rights Award for Journalism,
• A Black Film and Video Achievement Award and a separate award for Leadership.
• He is also a recipient of the African Canadian Achievement Award
• Awards from the New York and Houston International Film and Video Festivals.

Other activities include:

• A Trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum (Provincial Appointment)
• Member Toronto Police Services Board (Provincial Appointment)
• YMCA of Greater Toronto Board of Directors;
• Board of Directors of Innoversity
• Board of Directors Canadian Women in Communications
• Past President of the Canadian Association of Black Journalists,

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