Jo Ann Piña, Ph.D.

A dynamic trainer and consultant on CEI's professional team, Dr. Jo Ann Piña has 20 years' experience delivering seminars in leadership development, customer service, conflict management, gender communication, cross-cultural communication, cultural competency, and diversity in higher education institutions. Currently, she is writing two books-one on Hispanic communication styles in the workplace and a second on corporate secrets that every emerging minority leader must know.

Dr. Piña is the only Hispanic Ph.D. in the National Speakers Association; she serves on the Board of the National Capital Speakers Association and of Growth Strategies, Inc.; and she is a recent fellow of the National Hispana Leadership Institute. She is President of InspirAction, a firm dedicated to enhancing understanding between cultures and the sexes, a certified Myers-Briggs trainer, a former counselor and professor at Montgomery College, a certified mediator, and a former corporate trainer for Anthony Robbins. Dr. Piña is currently on the graduate faculty at Johns Hopkins University's Leadership Development Program.

Jo Ann earned her Ph.D. at The American University in Washington, D.C. and has done post-graduate work at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Piña also holds a B.A. from Cal State Los Angeles and an M.A. from Hood College.