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Peter Bye
Peter Bye is the President of MDB Group, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in improving their clients' business results and reputation. MDB Group's clients include companies ranging in size from small to Fortune 500 and not-for-profit organizations. The firm's perspective is that in this era of global business and connectivity, achieving sustained success requires effectively leveraging diversity and inclusion to ensure the highest possible quality workforce and work environment. MDB Group assists its clients by applying leading-edge thinking and expertise about how diversity and inclusion can drive leadership style and achieve meaningful business results.
Mr. Bye applies a strategic business-oriented view to his consulting work. He has strong experience developing business-aligned diversity and inclusion strategies and associated policies, practices, communications plans, and websites. Mr. Bye is a subject matter expert in all aspects of planning and managing employee network groups. He is an accomplished executive coach specializing in people and work environment issues who also has strong business P&L and R&D experience.
Previously, Mr. Bye was Corporate Diversity Director at AT&T where he created the new corporate diversity strategy and related policies and tools. This work focused on improving business results by increasing the diversity of the workforce and improving team effectiveness across the company. He managed and expanded the relationships with the employee network groups at AT&T, emphasizing business partnerships. Mr. Bye was the company's primary workforce diversity subject matter expert.
Mr. Bye was an executive coach to the senior leadership team of a Lucent Technologies Business Unit on people and work environment issues. Before that, he held positions as a business manager with P&L responsibility for a $350 million product family and in business and strategic planning. He started his career in product engineering at Bell Laboratories.
Mr. Bye is a frequent speaker and workshop leader at Conference Board, International Quality and Productivity Center, and other conferences. His articles on planning and implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies have appeared in many journals, including Profiles in Diversity Journal, Workforce Diversity Reader, and Diversity Factor. He is a professional member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the New Jersey Human Resource Planning Group, and a past program chair for the Conference Board Diversity Council II.
Mr. Bye received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Cornell University and a Certificate in Diversity Management from the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. He also completed the Penn State University Executive Management Program.
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