Stephen Young is Founder and Senior Partner of Insight Education Systems, a management consulting firm specializing in leadership and organizational development services. As a recognized leader and foremost expert in this field, Mr. Young frequently consults with senior executives and management teams of numerous Fortune 500 companies.
For more than a decade, Young has been a featured speaker at business conferences worldwide. He is much sought after for his powerful and engaging presentation style. Young’s widely acclaimed seminar MicroInequites: The Power of Small™ has been embraced by over 10 percent of the nation’s top corporations and is being touted by corporate America as the new paradigm for diversity and leadership.
His work has been published in numerous business articles and recognized in a myriad of industry trade and business publications including; The Wall Street Journal , Time Magazine and Diversity Inc. His program was also featured by Oprah Winfrey in several issues of her “O” Magazine.
Recently, McGraw-Hill released his groundbreaking book, Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words. Young is also the author of two Random House publications on business leadership and effective time management.
As former Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Young managed the firm’s diversity strategy worldwide. Under his leadership, the company garnered numerous awards for its diversity initiatives, including the Catalyst Award, Fortune Magazine’s Top 50 Companies for Minorities award, the Best Companies Award from Working Mother Magazine, and Diversity, Inc Magazine’s designation as the #1 company for diversity.
Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Stephen was VP for Diversity with Merrill Lynch’s Private Client Division. He is a former staff member of the Rutgers University Graduate School of Management. He has served on the Diversity Committee for the United Way of America and an Advisory Board member to the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Wall Street Project. He is the former Chairman of the Securities Industry Association’s Diversity Committee and a current Board member of Scholastic’s Alliance for Young Writers and Artists. Additionally, he served on his local Board of Education.
Our products provide solutions for corporations who seek to move beyond traditional diversity and leadership training and to break through to behaviors that can lead to a truly inclusive workplace.
Insight Education’s flagship product, MicroInequities: The Power of Small™, gets to the DNA of culture change and has become the new paradigm for diversity. MicroInequities tend to be unconscious expressions of bias. These subtle messages, sent either consciously or unconsciously, can reveal more about the true nature of a relationship than the surface words alone. They function as the core of how unconscious bias is communicated and how workplace inclusion is experienced. It reveals the effects of micromessages in the workplace and delivers critical concepts and skills that carry over instantly when participants return to the workplace.
Participation in this program dramatically improves the corporate culture and promotes behaviors that drive performance and are hard wired to a business’s bottom line.
Our flagship product, MicroInequities: The Power of Small™ focuses on the ways to manage unconscious bias in the workplace. It uncovers the DNA of inclusion and ways to generate acceptance of behavior change that alters employee performance.
A central thread in the fabric of great leadership is the ability to inspire the performance of others across all diversity dimensions. This is most effectively accomplished through the micromessages we send. These MicroMessages, often MicroInequities, are the sole manifestation of Unconscious Bias.
The program focuses on the hidden barriers to performance. These are the subtle, usually unconscious, MicroMessages we all send that can devalue, discourage and ultimately impair performance at all levels of an organization.
It reaches beyond merely identifying what MicroInequties are and how they occur in the workplace. This highly interactive seminar has participants feeling, first-hand, the impact MicroInequities have on them during the session. It takes participants beyond an intellectual understanding of unconscious bias. Their experience rises to the level of creating genuine buy-in and understanding of the impact subtle messages have on altering the performance of others.
Our program reveals the effects of MicroMessages on performance and delivers critical concepts and skills that carry over instantly when participants return to the workplace.
Just wanted to reach out and again say how fabulous I thought the Micro-inequities training session was. I have been to many sessions throughout my long career and this was by far not only the most enlightening, but also the most actionable. And, finally put into words and examples things I have experienced first-hand through the years and knew I would sound crazy trying to explain. I am spreading the feedback and gospel here already
It was fabulous. Like when you see a good movie you cant stop thinking about
Thank you for coming to Princeton last week and leading such an effective, insightful and engaging seminar for my Cabinet. I found it useful and illuminating. Several of my Cabinet colleagues commented about how helpful they found the session as well and, believe me, they are tough graders who are not shy with criticism! You did a marvelous job
I wanted to thank you for your life altering message. Its crazy how I wasnt able to see the things which were blatantly obvious to all but myself. After your seminar, I am now able to truly internalize and take appropriate actions upon self-review and application. I applied several of the things you mentioned and they have truly altered my leadership conversations and those with my spouse, as well. Thank you again for your time and educational wisdom.