 Jacob Herring is a management consultant who works with Fortune 100 companies in the area of Affirmative Action and Valuing Differences. He has consulted with Digital Equipment Corporation, The Boeing Company, The DuPont Company, McDonald’s Corporation, Southland Corporation, Kenworth Truck Company, Procter & Gamble, Bechtel Corporation, Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Apple Computer, Inc. and others. He has also worked with the U. S. General Accounting Office, the National Labor Relations Board and the University of California at Berkeley.
Since 1977, Herring has helped a variety of organizations identify and effectively respond to the needs, tensions and strengths of a diverse work force. In that capacity he has done team building for mixed groups and training and development for both minority and majority managers, administrators, partners and associates. In addition to consulting and training regarding organizational Human Resource Diversity, Herring has created and produces a career development workshop for lawyers, professionals and managers, especially those who belong to groups who have historically been excluded from the mainstream.
Before starting his career as a management consultant, Herring worked for the University of California at Berkeley as a staff psychologist in the Counseling Center and practiced at Berkeley Therapy Institute. He did his doctoral work in clinical and community psychology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois from 1969 to 1974. He studied Sociology and Anthropology at Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio from 1961 to 1966.
Herring works with Law Firms and corporate Legal Departments regarding the retention of minority attorneys. He has been a panelist and speaker at several conferences and conventions of the legal profession: e.g., the Annual and Western Regional Conferences of the National Association of Law Placement, the California State Bar Association, The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, the American Corporate Counsel Association, to name a few. Along with Phyllis A. James, Esq., he co-authored the Discussion Guide that accompanies the BASF video, A Firm Commitment. Herring appears in this video as himself. He is also the moderator in the video, Valuing Diversity: A Business Challenge for the Nineties, produced by the University of Delaware’s School of Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Management. In addition to being an associated member of the ABA, Herring is an Honored Member of the National Directory of Who’s Who, 1997 through 1999. He is also a frequent guest lecturer at the Practicing Law Institute.
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