John N. Greene, Jr - New Beginnings

John N. Greene, Jr., Ph.D., is Principal at i5 Consulting in Milwaukee, WI. John delivers a full array of services focused on initiatives to help talent and organizations succeed.  These services include executive assessment, development, and coaching; process consultation and organizational development; leadership learning and high-potential development; and diversity and inclusion learning, strategy, and consultation.  

John’s prime skills center on maximizing the accuracy of talent decision making and mitigating talent risks.  He brings a full career of experience in assessment, L&D, Diversity and Inclusion, organizational and executive development, learning, process consultation, and coaching in corporations, academia, military, and professional services.

John builds on some 12 years of leadership at Johnson Controls, where he was last the Vice President of Global Workforce Diversity.  His positions included Vice President-Corporate Human Resources and Vice President-Leader Development, along with other key people-affecting roles.  His hallmark work at Johnson Controls included harmonizing the talent management processes, developing and administering the company’s flagship high-potential development programs, and establishing the global talent management function.  He also established the Johnson Controls, Inc diversity and inclusion strategy as a benchmark for diversity leadership and a critical pathway for improving organizational and people processes.  He currently serves as Interim, Executive Director for New Beginnings are Possible, assisting this 22-year-old ministry transform. 

John served in the United States Navy as a Clinical Psychologist, obtaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander.  Other professional work included years at leadership consultancy RHR International and various academic institutions. In each career step, John built expertise in executive coaching, organizational assessment and development, executive selection, development and integration of key leaders, and interventions for leadership teams.  His work has taken him throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. 

John has a BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and MA and Ph.D. degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Alabama.  He serves on the Boards of the LGBTQ Community Center of Milwaukee and New Beginnings are Possible.  He is an ordained Elder and has pastored churches in the AME Zion Church.  John is married to Tameica and they have six children.\.

You can learn more about Youth Mentoring through New Beginnings Are Possible by visiting https://www.nbap.org/