Dr. Edward E. Hubbard is President and CEO of Hubbard & Hubbard, Inc., Petaluma, CA, an international organization and human performance-consulting corporation that specializes in techniques for applied business performance improvement, Diversity Return on Investment (DROI®) measurement and analytics, instructional design and strategic organizational development. He is the author of more than 50 business-related books, other books, articles, films, etc.
Dr. Hubbard was an honoree at the Inaugural International Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals Living Legends of Diversity Award Ceremony in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico where he received the Living Legends of Diversity Award. He is one of only 18 people in the world who have received this Award. Dr. Hubbard received the Excellence in Global Leadership Award from the World HRD Congress. The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD, now ATD) inducted Dr. Ed Hubbard into the prestigious ASTD New Guard for 2003. The July/August 2007 Issue of Profiles in Diversity Journal featured Dr. Hubbard as the Diversity Pioneer in Diversity Measurement. Dr. Hubbard serves on the Harvard Business Review, Diversity Executive Magazine and Strategic Diversity & Inclusion Management (SDIM) magazine Editorial Advisory Boards, and serves on the Board of Directors for The Ohio State University African American Alumni Society.
Dr. Hubbard served as Director, Developmental Education at The Ohio State University Newark campus, and Black Studies Instructor at The Ohio State University Main Campus. Part of Dr. Hubbard’s career was spent as a Lecturer at Dennison University. He also taught and worked with other Colleges and Universities here in the U.S. such as Missouri State University, Kent State University where he served as the Diversity Leadership and ROI Metrics Instructor for Kent’s Institute for Leadership Excellence, in Canada at the University of Calgary, the U.K. at the University of Bradford in Leeds, England, as well as universities in the Pacific Rim, and elsewhere.
Dr. Hubbard is an expert in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Analysis, Applied Performance Improvement, ROI Measurement Strategies, Strategic Planning, Training and Development, Instructional Design, Diversity Measurement and Analytics, and Strategic Organizational Change Methodologies. He also holds a Practitioner Certification and Master Practitioner Certification in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), a Neuro-science discipline. Dr. Hubbard earned Bachelors, Masters Degrees from The Ohio State University and earned a Ph.D. with Honors in Business Administration from Century University.