Dr. Michael D. Woodard
guides government agencies, Fortune 100 corporations and foundations in achieving strategic objectives. Dr. Woodard is a nationally recognized expert for EEO compliance, program evaluation, training and alternative dispute resolution.

Michael Woodard earned the Bachelor of Arts Degree at Federal City College in Washington , DC and his Masters and Doctor of Philosophy Degrees were earned at the University of Chicago , Department of Sociology. Dr. Woodard is a specialist in Labor Force Analysis and Organizational Development.

He received many academic honors including being selected as a National Institute of Mental Health Fellow and a William Burgess Fellow at the University of Chicago . He was also selected as a Fellow at the Center to the Advanced Study of the Behavior Sciences at Stanford University, and as Visiting Scholar, UCLA Center for African American Studies.

For 17 years, Dr. Woodard held teaching and research appointments at the University of Maryland-College Park; University of Missouri-Columbia; and UCLA. He has published many articles and presented many papers at professional conferences on workforce diversity and labor force patterns. Dr. Woodard maintains an active research agenda on the economic aspects of diversity. Rutgers University Press published his book titled, Black Entrepreneurs in America: Stories of Struggle and Success.

Dr. Woodard is a practitioner as well as a scholar. Throughout his career, Dr. Woodard has sought to advance theory and developed new methods to integrate employees from diverse backgrounds into productive working teams. Some of Dr. Woodard's clients include the National Science Foundation, EPA, Hughes Corporation, Avaya, Inc., Monsanto, The Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Woodard is a member of the American Society for Training and Development, the American Sociological Association, the Association of Black Sociologists, and Toastmasters International. Dr. Woodard serves as President of The University of the District of Columbia Alumni Society and he has fulfilled consecutive Mayoral appointments to the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights.