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Patricia Digh
Patricia (Patti) Digh’s first book, Global Literacies: Lessons on Business Leadership and National Cultures (Simon & Schuster 2000) was selected by Fortune magazine as a “Best Business Book” for 2000. Her most recent book, The Global Diversity Reference Guide, was published in 2003 by John Wiley. Her next book, 37days, is due out in early 2008 from Globe Pequot Press.
Patti is a business consultant, writer, and trainer with more than 20 years of experience in the areas of globalization and diversity. Her firm, The Circle Project, provides consulting, strategic development, and training for organizations and executives around diversity issues. Patti has developed international and diversity strategies for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many international conferences. A faculty member for the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, her comments have appeared on PBS, and in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and London Financial Times, among other publications. She has written over 75 published articles and has lived, worked and traveled in over 60 countries.
Patti was formerly the Vice President of International and Diversity Programs for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), with over 200,000 members. She is also a co-founder of The Global Diversity Roundtable, a consortium of senior practitioners from multinational corporations that provides a confidential forum for the exchange of leading edge practices, strategies, and methodologies in global diversity.
Patti’s clients include Amdocs Israel, PepsiCo, the U.S. Postal Service, PepsiCo, Discovery Communications, Shell Oil, PBS, the Australian Human Resources Institute, the American Cancer Society, JP Morgan Chase, the American Red Cross, and the American Institute of Architects, among many others in the U.S. and abroad. She has served on diversity advisory councils for the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, the National American Red Cross, the AARP, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, among others.
Locally, she serves on the Executive Committee of the Asheville-Mountain Area Chapter of the American Red Cross, as a facilitator and consultant with Building Bridges, on the Asheville High Business Alliance, as chair of Asheville High Career Day, and as an adjunct faculty member at UNCA.
Patti’s hobbies include making photographic image transfers and writing “37days,” a weekly newsletter about living intentionally (www.37days.typepad.com). She and her husband, John Ptak, live in Asheville with their two daughters, Emma (15) and Tess (4), a dog named Blue, two cats whose furniture scratching proclivities don’t merit their being mentioned by name, and until the recent Unfortunate Incident, a dwarf hamster named Maggie.
