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Antonio Cortes, PhD

Our Managing Director for People & Organizational Strategy, Antonio L. Cortes, PhD, is an Industrial/Organizational and Business Psychologist with extensive experience in the nonprofit sector. In his current role, he provides strategic and operational leadership to the People & Organizational Strategy practice area. Areas of support include Organizational Assessments to uncover oversights in operations that lead to inefficiencies and inequities, strategy development to solve unique organizational issues in the talent management space, global application of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for multinational organizations and training on topics such as Emotional Intelligence, Authentic Leadership, Building a Business Case for DEI, Implicit (Unconscious) Bias, Systems Theory Application to Workforce Development.

In his previous role at a large national nonprofit, Antonio oversaw national organizational development strategies that contributed to the growth of an existing membership base consisting of three billion dollars in annual revenue across 2,700 U.S.-based locations. Antonio has engaged in work focused on improving multiple levels of organizational functioning from personnel development to business model redesign to meet the needs of evolving customer groups. Antonio has significant experience facilitating workshops with nonprofit organizations of varying sizes and geographies in addition to serving as an adjunct faculty member leading graduate-level courses in Global HR, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Leadership, Advanced Consulting and Managing Organizational Diversity.

Antonio holds an Associate of Arts (AA) degree in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in General Psychology from Purdue University in addition to a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Business Psychology both from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. When asked for a fun fact about himself, he shared that he takes pride in the fact that he has never once lost his keys or his wallet.

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