Coleman Management Consultants, Inc.
HARVEY’S BIO
Harvey Coleman, President and founder of Coleman Management Consultants, Inc. for forty-three years, has combined a life time of work and life experiences (outlined below) to understanding and developing training that highlights the “Unwritten rules” everyone needs
to know to be successful at playing “the game”. Through his training seminars and life changing keynotes speeches, Harvey has a message for all races, ages and genders that will enable anyone to gain greater control of their life and career and will allow them to become a more effective leader in our changing Multi-cultural workforce. Mentoring programs, Employee Resource Groups, Talent Development programs and one-on-one counseling all need to know this informational. After all, when everyone can play the game to their fullest, everyone wins. Harvey Coleman has experienced and learned much in his life and wants to share that information.
Work experience – Harvey started his work career picking fruits and vegetables on farms, shining shoes, was a golf caddie, sanitation collector, dishwasher, construction and steelworker. He was a member of a singing group that opened for Ray Charles, James Brown and other nationally. After James Brown, Little Anthony and the Imperials and other nationally known singing groups. He worked his entire youth in his father’s restaurants and catering businesses. He was the first Black salesman hired nationally by Xerox Corp in 1964 and has held management and executive positions at IBM where he worked for twelve years. He later spent three years as a partner with Boyle-Kirkman, the first women consulting firm in the country to help organizations with the development of their women employee population. He founded his consulting firm, Coleman Management Consultants, Inc. forty-three years ago.
Social activist – Born and raised in the Jim Crow and “separate but equal” era, Harvey was active in the Civil Rights Movement. He was arrested twice at sit-ins, has had crosses burned on the lawns of three different homes, was a Mississippi Freedom Rider, was at Dr. Kings “I have a Dream” speech, attended the first planning meetings of the King Center with Coretta King and trained Andy Young’s staff when he was Mayor of Atlanta. In his career he has met such social
activist as Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown, Angela Davis, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Helen Gurley Brown.
Accomplishments – Harvey has guest lectured at the MBA schools of Wharton, Emory, Carnegie-Mellon, Georgia Tech universities and others, has taught at the Senior Executives School at GE and IBM’s executives school in La Hulpe, Belgium, has trained managers and executives from over twenty-five different countries as well as over forty Fortune 500 companies C-Suites, major government agencies and military organizations for over forty-five years.
Always looking to the future, he has written books entitled “Empowering Yourself: The Organizational Game Revealed” which allows individuals to take control of their own careers by explaining the rules of our system and defines his famous P.I.E. Model; and “Rules of the Game for High School and Life” that spells out the rules young people must be aware of to better prepare themselves for college and their future careers. He has recently published his third book, “Making the Difficult and Challenging Journey to Mainstream America”, A Journey Worthy of Consideraton, geared for individuals that grew up outside of mainstream America and reflects on his personal life experiences.
Major milestones – Harvey is an Eagle Scout, was named by the Greater Atlanta Chamber of Commerce as its first “Small Businessman of the Year”, was named “European Soldier of the Year” during the Berlin Crisis and has been a consultant to England’s House of Lords.
Community Involvement – For the last eight years, Harvey has served as a Advisory Board member on the Georgia Museum of Art, was a past Chairman of the Board of the Atlanta’s Girls Club, member of the National Board of the Girls Club and has served as a Director on the Boards of the Atlanta Boys Scouts, The Atlanta Neighborhood Justice Center and Saint Joseph’s Hospital. He was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the Atlanta Ballet.
Harvey has been married to his wife Kita for sixty-three years and has three children, six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Harvey still is an active skier, golfer and tennis player and has a major interest in musical theater.