Jo Ann Morris
Founding Partner
Jo Ann works with White Men as Full Diversity Partners to develop cutting edge leadership, organization and culture development consulting services that transform business partnerships between white men, non-white women, white women and men of different nationalities who work in the United States and Europe. She believes that building intercultural competency is a required skill at all levels of an organization, regardless of its services and product offerings.
Ms. Morris is an executive coach and organization change consultant who has provided innovative coaching and business performance strategies to her clients for more than 20 years. She founded Integral Coaching, LLC to provide executive coaching, leadership and organization development and business performance strategies to Fortune 500 clients.
Jo Ann has coached CEOs, presidents, general managers, emergency room physicians, CIOs and information technology gurus. One thing is consistent in the way she works with clients regardless of their industry or level: she focuses on evidence-based action and behavior that makes a clear and positive difference to the client as an individual contributor, his or her team, and the organization’s business performance.
Jo Ann completed a Masters in Organization Management and Development at Fielding Graduate University. She is an Intercultural Development Inventory Administrator and holds certification in several leadership assessment psychometric tools. Jo Ann is holding onto her dream to complete a doctoral program in Human Development.
Personal/Professional Philosophy: Words are cheap. Feelings, circumstances and fortunes change, they even lie. What matters is doing my ethical best in the face of all of it with compassion and respect for myself and others. I will trust that you are doing the work only you can do. I will do mine, not yours. Together we can make our corners of the world better, for all of us. It’s a choice that demands work, not a fortunate accident.
A Favorite Book: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon.
Lessons Learned: I have learned over and over again that we are living miracles. Our most hardened positions, held as unshakeable beliefs, can soften. Personal and professional growth and the ability to change is a choice that requires conscious attention.
To introduce our selves to each other is a radical act.
