Damion Jones, Ph.D.

“Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” As an addendum to that statement, people’s collective behaviors and shared perspectives constitute an organization’s culture. My mission is to help people within and across organizations get out of their own way to know and achieve their purpose and goals.”

Damion has spent over 17 years working on national and global culture and process transformations in corporate America. He specializes in institutionalizing global diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies and their execution. From the start of his career, Damion has worked directly with HR leadership teams and the C-Suite to manage their executive talent review and succession planning process, led US compliance efforts, and worked in HR analytics. As a Global Head of Diversity Equity and Inclusion for two companies, he’s driven strategy execution through the creation and administration of executive I&D Councils, employee resource groups, mentoring, and sponsorship programs. Additionally, he’s done training and development on DEI topics for thousands of leaders worldwide, integrated ERGs across continents, and within leadership pipelining efforts. He’s also facilitated the creation of global gender pay equity analysis and has won awards for these efforts regarding overall DEI progress within an organization, metrics, and ERG engagement.

Damion received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Morris Brown College in Atlanta, GA. In graduate school, he double specialized and received a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Social and Organizational Psychology from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO. Damion’s primary research focused on intergroup dynamics, stereotype threat, racial identity, and diversity in the workplace. Outside work, Damion enjoys spending time with his family, engaging in lightsaber battles with his children, playing and listening to music, and watching science fiction.