Cited as a forerunner of corporate change in The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management, Frederick A. Miller is the CEO of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. With 30-plus years of experience in organization development and transformation, he has partnered with such renowned companies as Apple Computers, Allstate, DuPont, EILEEN FISHER, INC., FedEx Kinko’s, Foxwoods Casino, Merck, Mobil, Omega Institute, Northeast Utilities, Singapore Telecommunications, Toyota, and United Airlines.
Fred specializes in using Inclusion as the HOW®- a foundational transformation mindset he co-created with Judith H. Katz—to accelerate results and achieve higher performance. His work has helped organizations turn around their operations and accelerate growth and bottom-line results. He also has assisted organizations in making the transition from “founder-centrism” to professional management.
In 1972, as a manager and then officer with Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (now CIGNA), Fred helped pioneer one of the nation’s first corporate diversity and inclusion efforts. He has served on the boards of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, World Education Inc., the American Society for Training & Development, the Organization Development Network, and the NTL Institute. Currently he is a member of the boards of Day & Zimmermann (a $3 billion family-owned business), Bainbridge Graduate Institute, One World Everybody Eats Foundation, The Sage Colleges, Seton Health Foundation, and the Center for Automated Technology Systems (CATS, the center for advanced manufacturing and robotics) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Together with Judith H. Katz, Fred co-authored Be BIG: Step Up, Step Out, Be Bold and The Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity; their third book, Opening Doors: Four Behaviors That Change EVERYTHING, is forthcoming. A regular speaker at international conferences and the author of more than 100 articles, he has published in such journals as Chief Learning Officer, OD Practitioner, HR Professional, and Executive Excellence. Under his leadership, The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc., was named one of Consulting magazine’s Seven Small Jewels in 2010.
Career Highlights
Recognition
Honored at the Legends of Diversity Dinner, International
Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals (2012)
Named as one of 40 Pioneers of Diversity by Profiles in
Diversity Journal (August/September 2007)
Noted as one of the forerunners of corporate change
in The Age of Heretics (Currency Doubleday, 1996)
Awards
Asia-Pacific HRM Congress HR Leadership Award
(2008)
OD Network Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce
Small Business Council Lifetime Achievement Award
(2006)
The Business Review Small Business Person of the Year
Award (2006)
Hudson-Mohawk ASTD’s Independent
Entrepreneurial Training & Development Professional
of the Year (2002)
First recipient of the OD Network’s Outstanding
Service Award (1999), which is now named after him
Organizations Founded
Co-founder, Institute for Inclusion
Co-convener, Community 2022
Founder, Troy 100 Forum
Faculty Positions
Adjunct Professor, American University/NTL (2008)
Board Memberships
Bainbridge Graduate Institute (2011-present)
Center for Automated Technology Systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2011-present)
The Sage Colleges (2005-present)
Day & Zimmermann (2004-present)
World Education Inc. (2000-2011)
Historic Troy 2020 (1999-present)
Seton Health Foundation (1997-present)
Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. (1992-2000)
Books
Co-author with J. H. Katz, Opening Doors: Four Behaviors
That Change EVERYTHING (forthcoming)
Co-author with J. H. Katz, Be BIG: Step Up, Step Out, Be
Bold (Berrett-Koehler, 2008)
Co-author with J. H. Katz, The Inclusion Breakthrough:
Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity (Berrett-Koehler,
2002)
Managing Editor of The Promise of Diversity (McGraw-
Hill Professional Publishing, 1994)