2017 DOT Civil Rights Virtual Symposium Speaker Bios - Session 12

Moving the Dial: Leadership Behaviors For Promoting Inclusive Organizations

Stanley J. Hammonds

Mr. Hammonds is the lead trainer for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Civil Rights, a position he began in 2015. He has a passion for designing and delivering training that fosters the development of leadership, management, and communication skills.

Stan has 28 years’ experience in leadership and management with the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Transportation. He is an accomplished instructor and facilitator, having spent the last 15 years designing, implementing, and evaluating educational and training programs aimed at developing individuals and enhancing organizations. Stan also serves as a professional coach in the Federal Coaching Network.

Michael W. Rawlings, J.D.

Michael has been with OPM since July 2006 when he joined the Senior Faculty at the Federal Executive Institute supporting all aspects of OPM’s flagship Leadership for a Democratic Society, and directing OPM’s Center for Global Leadership including launching FEI in China with Johns Hopkins University and Tsinghua University, Beijing.  From July 2012 through December 2015 he assisted in standing up OPM’s Center for Innovative Learning and Professional Growth and then served as Senior Advisor for Innovation Programs through the LAB@OPM

.  Michael is currently with the HRS, Center for Leadership Development, as a Program Director with Eastern Management Development Center.  His OPM work has included strategic planning, teaching, mediating, executive coaching and career counseling, complex facilitation, Human Centered Design, supporting prime performance for individuals, teams, and organizations.  From 2003 to 2006 he served as the first Conflict Management Program Officer for the Transportation Security Administration in its Model Workplace Program charged with developing TSA’s Integrated Conflict Management System.

Michael writes and teaches in the fields of conflict management, diversity, and American cultural history blended with values-based executive leadership.  He is a contributing author of The Trusted Leader (2nd Ed, 2011, CQ Press), as well as to two Center for Creative Leadership publications: Building Conflict Competent Teams, and Developing Your Conflict Competence – A Hands-On Guide for Leaders, Managers, Facilitators, and Teams. 

From 1986 to 1996 Michael lived in Brussels, Belgium where as Captain, U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, he served as community legal advisor at NATO HQ, and claims negotiator with the Belgian and French governments under the NATO Status of Forces Agreement.  In Brussels he also worked for the Secretary General of the European Union in Central and Eastern European Political Affairs, Human Rights, and Rule of Law issues, served on faculty at the European Business School, was an elected officer on the U.S./E.U. Chamber of Commerce, and directed Corporate Affairs and Eastern European Business Development for two multinationals.

Michael is a member of the Virginia State Bar, holds certifications at all levels of mediation practice and Mentor status with the Supreme Court of Virginia–Office of Dispute Resolution, and is a certified coach through the International Coach Federation.  

He is an alumnus of William and Mary and the University of Richmond’s T.C. Williams School of Law.