Jacksonville, Fl – Jacksonville, Florida based company Team Pegine, Inc. has been awarded an United States Air Force contract by Maxwell Air Force Base on behalf of The Squadron Officer College (SOC).  Team Pegine, Inc. will be supplying 24 role players and creating tribal villages for the Air Force’s Cultural Leadership Exercise. Approximately 20,000 Air Force officers will interact with Team Pegine, Inc. role players.  The contract is $350,000.00 and begins April 2012.

The purpose of Cultural Leadership Exercise is to provide officers an opportunity to employ leadership and cross-cultural-competency in a time-compressed, team-oriented mission that requires intercultural-communication, problem-solving and decision-making skills under stressful conditions.

Team Pegine, Inc. (TPI) is an award winning (SBA Women in Business Champion for State of Florida) SBA 8(a) and SBA 8(m) company located at the Beaver Street Enterprise Center.  Team Pegine, Inc. (www.TeamPegine.com), is a think tank on leadership, diversity and inclusion, providing a variety of scalable services including, role players and trainers, training, curriculum design, management consulting, strategic planning and event management service relating to leadership, diversity and inclusion, communication and cross-cultural-competency. TPI provides tools and strategies so people are great employees, great leaders, great entrepreneurs and great warriors who manifest success in a diverse world.

“We are grateful that we have been selected for this important mission” says TPI CEO Pegine Echevarria, MSW, CSP “It is an honor to work with the Air Force and those that serve our country.”

Team Pegine, Inc. serves the US Army, US Marines, US Air Force, US Navy, Coast Guard, National Guard Bureau and over 30 National Guard States.  NASA, Social Security Administration and other federal agencies utilize their services.  Corporate clients include HSBC Bank, Intel, Colgate Palmolive, Uniliver, and Newell Rubbermaid among others.

Pegine Echevarria, MSW, CSP testified before the Military Leadership Diversity Commission and Society of Human Resources called her one of 100 Global Thought Leaders on Diversity and Inclusion.

Team Pegine, Inc. is located at Beaver Street Enterprise Center (BSEC).  Beaver Street Enterprise Center (BSEC) is Jacksonville’s only business incubator and in 2010, achieved recognition from the National Business Incubator Association as the top business incubator of the year.

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Focus of the Thought Leadership Executive Level Think Tank Training session is compliance with EO 13583 and EO 13548 as well as diversity and inclusion in the federal sector. Strategies and best practices for diversity and inclusion within industry and other fields will be addressed. Attendees include Directors and Executives (thought leaders, influences & visionaries) from government, private sector, not-for-profits, and academia.  The workplace is changing, evolving, and diversifying.

Ms. Echevarria, MSW, CSP will be presenting on the diversity and inclusion of Caucasian men. Her keynote is titled “White Guys Are Diverse Too(tm)! after the scalable licensed program created by her which is currently being delivered to military, defense, government and federal contractors. Officers from the  US Navy, US Army, National Guard, US Marines and US Coast Guard are graduates of the training. The program is currently deployed around the country to serve officers stationed at key locations.

Ms Echevarria spoke to the US Navy Fleet Diversity Council on this same topic. Anne Hammond Capt USN Department of the Navy Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Pentagon, Washington DC shared “On behalf of the Navy Diversity Directorate and the Chief of Naval Operations, I want to thank you personally for your support. Your topic White Guys Are Diverse Too™! clearly resonated with the audience and was the subject of many enthusiastic remarks on our feedback forms. Many people specifically commented on the enthusiastic nature of your message and its applicability to their daily personal and professional lives:  ‘Yes, I appreciated the fact that she pointed out cultures vs color (i.e. white guys–Czech, Italian, Polish, Irish, etc.)’

“It is an honor to be presenting with such luminaries and leaders on the topic of diversity and inclusion.  Leadership in a diverse world requires the skills, strategies and policies that enable us look deeper at the dimensions of our workforce so that we can leverage each person’s strengths for  innovation and increased productivity.  Our country and economy is dependent on creating an environment where every person knows that they are valuable to our organizations and our country and is responsible to do their very best to produce, innovate as well as value their  co-workers and citizens.” said Pegine Echevarria, MSW, CSP

The Think Tank sessions are designed as open space format with the ability for participants to sit with the nation’s top trainers & speakers. In addition, scribes will take notes to insure all information is documented. An e-book will be forwarded to the participants after the conference and participants will have the ability to utilize these documented best practices, lessons learned, and exchange from the sessions within your organization, agency or corporation.

Diversity and Inclusion Training

Team Pegine is on the ‘tip of the spear’ for getting the training and awareness to millions of people with this dimension of diversity and inclusion. White guys must understand their contributions and differences to remain an inclusive part of the organization. Dr McGuire DEOMI, Deputy Dean of Education, Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute

If you work with a white guy, lead a group of white guys, are part of a team of white guys, work for a white guy or are a white guy… then it is a career imperative that you attend.

You are invited to the diversity and inclusion leadership training for

Military, Defense, Government and Federal Contractors Employees

called

“White Guys Are Diverse Too^(tm)!”

which will be conducted in the following cities

• Washington, DC April 23, 2012
• Jacksonville, FL April 30, 2012
• Norfolk, VA May 14, 2012
• San Diego, CA May 21, 2012

Does this sound familiar?

“Diversity doesn’t include me!”    “I’m just an Average White Guy“

or

“They’re not diverse”       “‘They’re all the same“

3 hour training

Participants will learn the following:

• Identify the demographic changes that are taking place in the US and their impact on the workplace
• Challenge assumptions that all white guys have the same perceptions, opinions, backgrounds and preferences
• Identify that the definition of “diversity” is inclusive of all individuals, including white guys
• Recognize the connection between employee engagement and productivity
• Celebrate the value white guys bring to the organization
• Expand your network to be more inclusive of all types of people
• How to create and mentor diverse teams
• How to apply and be champions of diversity and inclusion

The program:

• 3-hour program with break
• Dynamic modules that combine lecture, exercises, and discussion for interactive learning
• Customized data that transfers general knowledge to organization-specific skills
• Powerful “tactical plans” to immediately improve engagement levels

Check out the website with the 4-minute mini movie.

Fee: $200.00 for the training and all training materials.

One of Team Pegine Inc. Trainers will be conducting the program. They have experience training throughout the Military, Defense And Federal Government Employees.

For Groups of 6 or more please call us at 904 280 8806

DEOMI opened in 1971 as the Defense Race Relations Institute in response to the civil rights movement of the 1960′s. The institute has grown and expanded over the years and now offers Equal Opportunity/Equal Employment Opportunity education and training for military active duty and reservists as well as civilians in both resident and non-resident courses. From the DEOMI website

Their website is rich with resources, research and support.

It was an honor for us to have several senior members of DEOMI attend our White Guys Are Diverse Too(tm)! Training in Jacksonville, FL

The Success4Vets.com initiative will soon announce their roster of military liaisons to ensure that all services incorporate the valuable transition work currently being done by the DoD, and Federal Agencies.

Team Pegine Inc. is seeking partners and sponsors for the event and the coaching program. Call 904-280-8806 for information.

“We are honored to be one of only two diversity organizations in the country who were invited to present at the first meeting of the Department of Defense (DOD) Diversity and Inclusion Working Group,” said Echevarria, whose lively and inspiring twenty-minute December 9^th presentation educated representatives of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Commissary Agency, Air Force, Army, Marines, Navy and Coast Guard on the services and philosophy of Team Pegine Inc and their approach to diversity and inclusion, leadership and strategy.

Pegine Echevarria presenting at the Pentagon

Since 1996, Team Pegine, Inc. has provided management consulting, training and development to the U.S. Army, Navy, Coast Guard, National Guard Bureau, and other federal agencies.  With the overall goal of motivating leaders in a diverse world, Team Pegine Inc. has become a powerful, positive change-agent in both military and corporate arenas.  An 8(a) certified business (small disadvantaged, woman and Hispanic owned), Team Pegine Inc. is headquartered at Beaver Street Enterprise Center, a HUBZONE Certified, award-winning Core-City Business Incubator where diversity and inclusion are deemed primary elements of success.

During the past eight years, Team Pegine, Inc.’s CEO has received recognition locally, statewide, and nationally including being one of fewer than seven-hundred speakers worldwide to earn the coveted National Speakers Association CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation; recognized as the State of Florida’s SBA (Small Business Administration) Women in Business Champion, One of 100 Global Thought Leaders on Diversity and Inclusion by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), a recipient of the American GI Forum National Community Service Award, and being inducted into the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute Speakers Hall of Fame.

With more than 60 training, education, e-learning, design, development and motivational programs, including “White Guys Are Diverse Too! ^TM” and “G.E.M.S. ROCK! (Great Employees Manifest Success) ^TM” provided by a growing number of consultants nationwide, Team Pegine, Inc. has become the “Go To” Diversity Team for Defense contractors in all branches of the Federal government.  “Team Pegine, Inc. has become the top national motivator for organizations  in the ‘STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) field” said Rumbellis Robinson, Program Manager at Beaver Street Enterprise Center.  “The team’s energy and expertise has infused our atmosphere with a sense of expectation for a brighter, more prosperous future through recognition, partnership and collaboration.  We’re excited to have this dynamic diversity team on board at Beaver Street to motivate and train the business leaders of tomorrow.”

Pegine Echevarria, MSW, CSP & Captain Barrett is currently serving as the Under Secretary of Defense's Deputy Director, Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity

Navy Captain Ken Barrett, acting deputy director of DOD’s Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity recommended Team Pegine Inc., touting their broad approach to inclusion.  “It’s not just about race and ethnicity,” said Barrett.  “You can look at language skills, regional expertise, and cultural expertise – everything that puts us at a readiness standpoint to accomplish our missions.”  As revealed in Pegine’s Pentagon briefing on December 9, Team Pegine stands at readiness to impact the world.  To learn of upcoming professional and management development opportunities with the leading diversity team in the nation, please visit www.teampegine.com or 904-280-8806.

THE   BEAVER   STREET   ENTERPRISE CENTER is a 25,000 square foot professional office facility offering modern workplace amenities for startup and existing small businesses as well as business technical assistance, counseling, mentoring and assistance in marketing and obtaining business financing.  The center is geographically positioned to stimulate economic growth in Jacksonville’s northwest neighborhood and is run by nonprofit Core City Business Incubators, Inc. as an initiative of FreshMinistries.

“The divide between our private and professional lives is essentially gone,” Roughead said in an interview. “People can engage in the debate — does it really matter what a commanding officer does in their personal life? We believe it does, because it gets right to the issue of integrity and personal conduct and trust and the ability to enforce standards.”

Through our GEMS leadership inclusion program everyone from the newly enlisted to Admirals are taught that they are leaders at work and in their personal lives. They have three specific roles to focus on:

• 1) Their individual selves,
• 2) Their role as leaders of others and
• 3)Their role as organizational representatives.

Everyone  is charged with living on a daily basis, with all three roles they embody and  communicate the values to others through personal action.  The core values of the US Navy are honor, courage and commitment. Within the US Army those values are loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, integrity and personal courage.

In your personal life, how do you exhibit those values,  how you  treat yourself daily, how you treat your family and how you treat your relationships.

As leaders who influence your co-workers, your team and your stakeholders, do you  daily check in with yourself asking “as a leader am I reflecting those values I committed to honor?”.

Finally, as representatives of your organization are you walking your talk?  When you are out in the community do people see that you live those values you committed to?

We, you and I, are responsible for our actions.  If you (and I) are committed to the values of honor, courage and commitment. loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, integrity, and personal courage, then we had better make sure we are walking the talk.

The US Navy and US Army rely on Team Pegine Inc. to provide leadership programs for leading in a diverse world.   Call our office to learn about the GEM program and all of our other trainings we are committed to motivating leaders in a diverse world! 904-280-8806

Monday, May 16, 2011
from 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (ET)
Jacksonville, FL | Beaver Street Enterprise Center

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Leaders and managers have a choice   Leaders can create an atmosphere where staff experiences stress, anger and isolation, resulting in low productivity, gossip and interpersonal chaos.

Leaders can also choose to create an atmosphere of support, partnership, and team spirit, which results in high productivity, strong morale and effective team environment.  It is a leader’s choice.  Which do you want?  One has you feeling alone, frustrated, tense and angry, while the other instills calmness, confidence, and a sense of accomplishment.  Being willing to change and learn a new skill is the first step to developing a motivated and empowered team.

Participants will learn the following techniques:

• How to deal with a passive aggressive staff member
• How to identify the characteristics and behaviors that stop their staff   from moving to the next level
• Six areas that every leader must analyze observe and change, if necessary, to create a more effective, empowered and motivated staff.
• How to acknowledge your staff with meaningful, free or low cost techniques

The Commission was made up of 31 of active-duty and retired officers, senior enlisted personnel from the Active and Reserve Components of all military Services, as well as civilian representatives to include senior executives of major corporation, civil servants, and a law school chancellor.

The final report was delivered to the President, White House staff, and members of the U.S.Congress, fulfilling requirements established under the provision of The National Defense Authorization ACT (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2009 (FY2009)