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About Human Facets
Human Facets was founded in 1985 and is an International Organizational Consulting firm specializing in global inclusion and diversity.
Our expertise in the field of organizational development and global Inclusion ensures that our clients will receive not only a depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise, but also a fully customized solution to whatever challenges they face.
We have helped a number of our clients to design and develop award-winning diversity strategies and our knowledge and proficiency makes a major contribution to ensuring that client organizations move forward with their strategic direction in a manner that makes a positive impact on the bottom line of the business.
The founder and CEO of Human Facets, Dr. Helen Turnbull, is an internationally recognized expert in global inclusion and helping organizations to remove the glass walls that are inhibitors to productivity.
Dr. Helen Turnbull
Founder and CEO
Dr. Helen Turnbull has 25+ years of experience assisting businesses in enhancing organizational capabilities. As a practiced Organizational Development consultant, Dr. Turnbull, as CEO of Human Facets, is a global inclusion and diversity specialist. Her PhD dissertation research was on internalized oppression across cultures and she has a deep knowledge and understanding of what it takes to create an inclusive environment.
Dr. Turnbull’s extensive experience includes working with Blue Chip clients such as Texas Instruments, Raytheon, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Motorola, Hewlett Packard, AT & T, Lucent Technologies, IBM, and Citigroup Europe. She is currently working in Australia with multiple clients, including Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse Cooper, and many others on Unconscious Bias and its impact on diversity and inclusion.
Dr. Turnbull made major contributions in assisting Texas Instruments to win the Catalyst Award and the Malcolm Baldridge Award and was instrumental in helping both J. P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup Europe win the prestigious Opportunity Now Award and Business in the Community Awards. She has also developed online assessment tools which provide clients with behavioral metrics for individuals and organizations; including “Cognizant,” an unconscious bias assessment tool, which helps leaders identify their blind spots and an embedding inclusion assessment – “ISM Profile” an online 360 skills identification assessment.
In addition to her doctorate in Human and Organizational Systems, Helen has two Masters Degrees; one in Industrial Psychology and Mental Health Counseling and a second in Human and Organizational systems. She received her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Psychology and is a member of a number of significant professional organizations including the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, American Sociological Association, and American Society for Phenomenology and the OD Network. In 2009 she won the “Distinguished Research Award” for an article – “Diversity & Inclusion: Developing an Instrument for the identification of Skills deficiencies” published in the Academy of Strategic Management Journal and she also won the nomination to speak at the “Last Lecture series” at Nova SE University. She is also published in the Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict Journal and is the author of an allegorical tale “Village of Illusions”, an upcoming nonfiction book “Looking through the Liking Glass” and “Roadmap to Success” with Deepak Chopra and Ken Blanchard, where she has a featured chapter on “Blind Spots”. She is a member of the National Speakers Association and The Global Speakers Network.
