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RUSSELL LEE NICHOLSON

Russell Lee Nicholson provides comprehensive project management and consulting expertise in the areas of organizational needs assessment, strategy, training design, workshop facilitation and marketing. She has been with Global OD Solutions since 2004, serving as a core diversity trainer with M&T Bank’s Retail Banking and Technology and Banking Operations divisions.

Russell’s other diversity clients have included Mellon Financial Corporation, Bayer Corporation, MECA/Panasonic, Coopers & Lybrand, Amtrak, Ford Motor Company, The Federal Reserve Bank, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola Bottling Co., McDonald's Corporation, Northern Trust., Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Owens-Corning and St. James Hospital System.

Prior to working as a Consultant in the Harbridge House Division of Coopers & Lybrand from 1993 to 1995, Russell served two years as training manager at INROADS/Chicago, Inc., a national nonprofit organization that works with Fortune 500 corporations to provide career development and internships for talented students of color. At INROADS, she coordinated the competency-based training and development program for 250 collge interns, managed its pre-college component for 100 high school students and expanded a diverse portfolio of corporate sponsors.

Previously, she acted as client liaison to a leading packaged goods firm at DDB Needham Worldwide Advertising and worked in corporate banking at several banks. Russell holds an M.M. degree in Marketing and Public & Nonprofit Management from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she participated in the accelerated Four Quarter graduate program in 1988-89. She earned a B.B.A. degree in Finance from Loyola University of Chicago in May 1983.