Lewis Brown Griggs grew up in Minneapolis-St.Paul and now resides in San Francisco with his family. Mr. Griggs has a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He has thirty-five years of experience in marketing and sales with particular expertise in new enterprise management, has also worked in the government and non-profit sectors, and co-founded Griggs Productions over twenty-six years ago in 1982.
He is the co-author of two books : Going International: How To Make Friends and Deal Effectively in the Global Marketplace (Random House) and Valuing Diversity: New Tools For A New Reality (McGraw-Hill) as well as the Executive Producer of the Going International, Valuing Diversity, Valuing Relationship, and Human Energy at Work video series, the 3-part No Potential Lost interactive multimedia cd-rom series and the subsequent internet/intranet e-learning program The Potential is Yours.
He has been interviewed on the CBS MORNING NEWS, NBC’s TODAY SHOW and numerous other national and local television and radio shows across the country. He has presented at conferences and seminars nationwide and is a frequent speaker on the personal & interpersonal & organizational impact of effective relationship across individual and cultural differences, and is in production of a new training tool called Human Spirit at Work.
Personal Training -
Any of the above products can stand alone or even complement other products or even be used internally by other outside diversity trainers, but I am certainly available to personally facilitate my favorite diversity training tool of all - human interaction!
I can do two-hour or half-day or full day sessions to reach attending employees in whatever size groups preferred to fit their schedules over a one or two or three day period. In those sessions, I would convey key concepts in a combination of lecturing and exercises, and facilitate personal and interpersonal interactions and exercises, and use at least one of the above mentioned training tools in a video and/or cd-rom format projected on a large screen via an LCD projector if available.
Essential Message:
The language of my message changes to fit with the audience, as not all are as interested in spirit or in energy as I am, but in different ways and words I try to convey and facilitate all attendees to walk away with increased consciousness of the following:
Our spirits all come from the same source of energy and abide in mostly similar human bodies and accordingly have much in common, yet each of us lives within the only combination of uniquely diverse DNA and subsequent life experiences that has ever existed in the history of life on earth.
Turning Points come for each of us as we evolve constantly, the old way not working as well as it was working and the new way not working as well yet as hoped. Changes come at us so quickly and at times so many at once that our response to change varies in its effectiveness.
As vastly diverse human resources of energy and spirit we are sometimes the least (and/or most dysfunctionally) responsive to change, yet we are often the most subtly and flexibly responsive resource of energy with which we as individuals or teams or organizations can possibly respond to change, especially if we are enhanced to become (rather than depleted from becoming) our fullest and most expressive selves in all our diversity.
All too often we respond to our own or each other's differences by denying (as if not real) or ignoring (as if not relevant) the very real and relevant differences which are unique gifts to ourselves and/or to one another, to our organizations, and to the task at hand.
Our effectiveness with each other is at all times influenced by three overlapping and simultaneous circles of influence: group/cultural differences, individual uniqueness, and our relationship dynamics. Every system (body, computer, chair, tree, etc.) only functions precisely as it does because its parts are diverse and relate to one another as they do, i.e. functionally and/or dysfunctionally.
So the quality of our energetic and spiritual relationship across our differences is the key to our personal and interpersonal and organizational wholeness and fulfillment, and thereby to our effectiveness and co-creativity and co-productivity and long-term profitability.
Market Focus:
I speak & train & facilitate dialogue within and/or sell video & print & cd-rom and e-learning training materials to corporate, government, non-profit and educational organizations, since the same essential goal of personal & interpersonal & organizational effectiveness is true in all organizations.
However, since it's only my own personal process/work/growth in which I have any direct experience and thereby any expertise (since ‘it takes one to know one’), I seem to have my greatest impact among similar people at least recognizing the need to gain similar consciousness (mostly mid-level to senior-level white male managers and executives).
Over twenty-five years of doing this work since 1982, my use of print, video, television, radio, workshops, conferences, personal training, speaking, cd-roms, and now on-line e-learning programs, has been intended to give clients whatever learning tools and vehicles they most prefer in order to reach the greatest number of people with the essential message at the least cost.
Lewis Brown Griggs
Speaker / Trainer / Producer
Cultural Diversity / Spirit at Work / Near Death Experiences
Griggs Productions
San Francisco CA
1-800-210-4200