Joe Gerstandt is a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator known for sharing thought-provoking and inspiring messages with his audience.  A thought-leader in the areas of diversity, inclusion, innovation and leadership, Joe works with large and small companies and organizations in their efforts to live up to their potential. Joe also maintains a popular weblog (OurTimeToAct.com), participates in or facilitates several online learning communities and has recently been invited to join The Guru Nation (TheGuruNation.com) where he will provide thought leadership on issues of diversity and leadership. He also serves on advisory boards for the Transcultural Learning Center and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. "At the end of the day, what I really am is a freedom fighter.  This work is largely about removing the individual and shared barriers that can stand in the way of each of us making our unique contributions.  I believe we need whole organizations and that requires whole people.  I try to help that happen.  I work to illuminate those individual and organizational blind spots, so that we are able to liberate the potential that so often goes unnoticed and ignored.  I work to bring more freedom into the world."