Speaking that Inspires Real Cultural Change 

Dr. Anita Polite-Wilson, Founder & CEO of Dr. Anita Enterprises, Inc., reframes diversity conversations from difficult to different. As a C-Suite Trusted Advisor and Board Director, she helps leaders and teams navigate complexity and change associated with diversity endeavors. Her mission includes advising and coaching leaders at all organizational levels on their journey toward accepting and adapting to the unique needs of today’s workforce which reflects more diverse individuals, spanning five generations, requiring dynamic teams that constantly evolve. Working with leaders for more than 20 years, Dr. Anita has been successful at shifting the paradigm of change management from “check-the-box initiatives” having little or no impact, to “change-the-culture behaviors” that will noticeably improve collaborations. She has studied workforce trends for over ten years and creates programs that increase employee engagement, retention, and productivity for corporate, government, and nonprofit entities of all sizes across various industries.  As a consultant, Dr. Anita provides the design, development, and delivery of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, leadership, and management skills training for such organizations as Abode Communities, Rehrig Pacific Company, Wente Family Estates, SquarMilner Certified Public Accounts & Financial Advisors, and SONY Entertainment, just to name a few. She has also facilitated break-out sessions for over 400 attendees at the MGM Resorts 10th Annual Women’s Leadership Conference entitled, “Maintaining Grace Under Fire” focused on workplace stress management. As a result, she was featured in the Las Vegas Business Press (July 3, 2016).    As an Organizational Effectiveness professional, Dr. Anita has spent 14 years among the aerospace community collaborating with an intergenerational workforce of over 5,000 college interns, engineers, scientists, and business professionals as a coach and mentor, and as a trusted advisor to both military officers and corporate senior executives. Having served as the Vice President of both The Aerospace Women’s Committee and The Aerospace Black Caucus, she was recognized for her ability to link leadership lessons learned through more than 50 Employee Resource Group activities and Diversity & Inclusion initiatives to bottom-line business results to attract and retain diverse, qualified professionals. As an adjunct professor for the Crowell School of Business at Biola University, and as a Fellow for the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership, Dr. Anita facilitates conversations for adult learners to expand their concept of diversity and demonstrate this new understanding through more human-affirming habits in the workplace. As a keynote speaker and guest panelist, she regularly engages corporate executives, women’s networks, emerging professionals, and college students to explore the correlation between psychological safety, inclusive leadership traits, motivation, skills, and strengths in achieving belonging and career agility in today’s marketplace.      As a faculty member of the Elevate Leadership Program in association with the Center for Executive Development for the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego, Dr. Anita influences hundreds of emerging, first-time, and mid-career technical leaders nationwide for Fortune 500 companies and organizations within aerospace, private utilities, public works, and hospitality such as Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Edison International, So Cal Gas, and MGM Resorts International.  Each client engagement fosters Dr. Anita’s values of Comfort, Community, and Commitment which are essential to fully experience her proprietary SHIFT Reflective Learning Model© and Collective Wisdom Forum©. Her research has shown that people who feel connected through joint dialogue will discover that the answers to common challenges are found within individuals, teams, and organizational systems. Considering herself to be “a facilitator of conversations that matter” Dr. Anita defines client success as aligning People, Passion, and Purpose.  Dr. Polite-Wilson earned both a doctorate (Ph.D.) and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University, a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Organizational Leadership from Biola University, and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Management from Pepperdine University. Additionally, she is a certified Psychological S.A.F.E.T.Y. Practitioner, a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, and an iPEC Certified Professional Coach. She is a founding member of the Los Angeles and Orange County chapter of the National Human Resources Association’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council, author of seven leadership books, international speaker, and host of the weekly Keeping It Real with Dr. Anita podcast.