Enrique Garcia Bejar, Principal, Bejar Consulting Group: Enrique Garcia Bejar is a coach and advisor to executives at major corporations and nonprofit organizations. He specializes in issues career transition, diversity and cultural competency.

Prior to creating his own firm, Enrique was a Director of Career Development at the consulting firm Deloitte and Touche LLC and a Vice President of DBM. (DBM is one of the world's top providers of executive coaching and career management for corporate executives). He was also the Associate Director of the Adult Career Counseling and Resource Center at the City University of New York.

Enrique teaches courses in career management, diversity, ethics in counseling and related topics at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Columbia University's Teachers College.

Enrique earned an Ed.M. degree in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Hunter College from the City University of New York.

Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Instructor and Director, Professional Development Institute, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Executive Director, The Leading Institute: Leo is a founder of The Leading Institute, and has been directing its growth since its creation. At the Bloustein School, he directs the Professional Development Institute -- the first university-based organization to focus on improving the quality of continuing education for planning, community and economic development, and public policy professionals. He also teaches graduate, undergraduate and continuing education courses in planning history and theory, leadership, effective client relations, cultural competency and economic development.

He is also a community planning and nonprofit management consultant who integrates planning, leadership, strategic communications and capacity building in his work.

For nearly a decade, Leo has actively worked to increase ethnic diversity in the planning field. He is a co-founder of Planners for Ethnic and Cultural Diversity, the first professional group of planners focused on diversity. He is now the Chair of Latinos and Planning, the only national organization focused on planning challenges facing Latino communities and professional challenges facing Latino planners.

He is the lead author of Lagging Behind: Ethnic Diversity of the Planning Profession in the APA Metro New York Chapter. He created and edited the Milano Nonprofit Management Knowledge Hub and the Milano MiX: Management Information Exchange, two knowledge sharing sites for nonprofit managers. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University, and Master of Planning and Master of Public Administration degrees from the University of Southern California.

To learn more about Executive Class, please contact TLI Director Leonardo Vazquez