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Dani Monroe, President

Joanne Zitek, Senior Vice President, Learning Systems

CFI’s network of consultants brings a breadth and depth of experience to ensure that our clients get the best possible expertise to meet their specific goals.

Shirronda Almeida | Judy A. Baker | Kelly Bates, Esq. | Paul S. Bracy | Demita Frazier, J.D.
William S. Friedman | Linda Y. Goldstein | Harvey Greenberg | Deborah Heller, Ph.D.
Lisa Hirsh | Laura Kangas | Manuel Manga | Richard Mansfield, Ed.D. | Lewis M. Rambo, Ph.D.
DB Reiff, MBA | James Spencer, Ph.D. | Sharon Bueno Washington | Comma Williams

Dani Monroe

Dani Monroe is president and founder of Center Focus International. In her 20 years of diversity and organizational change work she has developed a keen understanding of their relationship to an organization’s bottom line. Her expertise is to connect diversity and organizational change to that bottom line so that both individuals and the organization benefit.

Dani helps clients design strategies to support their business goals, and ensures that those goals are practical, realistic, and aligned with the organization’s operational and cultural practices.

Dani has authored numerous articles for many publications, including Diversity Inc.’s online magazine, Black Enterprise, and Banker & Tradesman. She co-authored the chapter, Managing the Complexity of Organizational Transformation, for the book Transforming Work, by John Adams. She has been featured in the Boston Business Journal, and was awarded the prestigious YWCA Academy of Women Achievers Award in 2000.

She is a graduate of California State University, Dominguez Hills and Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Business.

Joanne Zitek

Joanne Zitek is Senior Vice President, Learning Systems, of CFI. She has consulted to corporations in the communications, financial services, healthcare, publishing, consumer products, manufacturing, high technology, and food industries. She has also consulted to the U.S. and foreign governments, and to nonprofit institutions. Joanne specializes in change management, diversity and global business, advising on organization strategy and implementation, conducting organizational audits, executive coaching, and the design and facilitation of learning systems.

Zitek managed the BoardBank of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, where she assisted over 50 organizations to diversify their boards of directors. She also served as Director of Management Development at Fidelity Investments, and as Manager of Professional Development for Bank of Boston.

Joanne has represented Massachusetts on Partners of the Americas projects in Colombia, and is a member of an exchange between U.S. and Italian businesswomen. She has a B.S. from Cornell University and an Ed.M. from Boston University. She has co-authored “Multicultural Teams” and “The Transcultural Organization,” both in Cultural Diversity at Work.

Joanne has a passion for both art and nature, which she partly fulfills by serving on the boards of the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, and the Boston Natural Areas Network.