
Lee N. Coffee, Jr.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Distinguished Graduate of the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) • Certified to Mediate Workplace Disputes • MBTI Master Practictioner • Performance Based Hiring Competency • Train-The-Trainer (Level II) Teaching Skills and Cultural Competency • Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) Facilitator • Negotiating To Yes Leader Certification• Certified in "Laughter Yoga"• Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children (MMTIC)
PUBLICATIONS:
- Contributing writer: Conversations on Success (Spring 2004)
- Contributing writer: Professional Speaker Magazine (Fall 2003)
- Contributing writer: "Black Cowboys of Texas" Winner of T.R. Ferenbach Award for non-fiction by the Texas Historical Commission (2001)
- News-Leader: Carnival Latino Celebrated During Hispanic Heritage Month (2000)
- News-Leader: American History Full of Hispanic Heroes (2000)
- News-Leader: He had a Dream (1999)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
- National Speakers Association
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- The Jung Center
HONORS AND AWARDS:
- MD Anderson - HR BEST for Employee Engagement (2013)
- National Leadership Award (2006)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (2005)
- Mrs. Laura Bush Coming Up Taller Award (2004)
- Who's' Who of America (2004)
- Inducted into the Distinguished Graduates of Harvey High School (1999)
- Honor Graduate Defense Equal Opportunity Managment Institute (1998)
- Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) (1997)
- Outstanding Young American (1996)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Distinguished Graduate of the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) • Certified to Mediate Workplace Disputes • MBTI Master Practictioner • Performance Based Hiring Competency • Train-The-Trainer (Level II) Teaching Skills and Cultural Competency • Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) Facilitator • Negotiating To Yes Leader Certification• Certified in "Laughter Yoga"• Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children (MMTIC)
PUBLICATIONS:
- Contributing writer: Conversations on Success (Spring 2004)
- Contributing writer: Professional Speaker Magazine (Fall 2003)
- Contributing writer: "Black Cowboys of Texas" Winner of T.R. Ferenbach Award for non-fiction by the Texas Historical Commission (2001)
- News-Leader: Carnival Latino Celebrated During Hispanic Heritage Month (2000)
- News-Leader: American History Full of Hispanic Heroes (2000)
- News-Leader: He had a Dream (1999)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
- National Speakers Association
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- The Jung Center
HONORS AND AWARDS:
- MD Anderson - HR BEST for Employee Engagement (2013)
- National Leadership Award (2006)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (2005)
- Mrs. Laura Bush Coming Up Taller Award (2004)
- Who's' Who of America (2004)
- Inducted into the Distinguished Graduates of Harvey High School (1999)
- Honor Graduate Defense Equal Opportunity Managment Institute (1998)
- Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) (1997)
- Outstanding Young American (1996)
Sgt Emanuel Stance: Buffalo Soldier
For twenty years, this inspirational program has been well received in Corporations, The Smithsonian National Museum of American History; West Point; Prisons, Universities, nationally and internationally.
Mr. Coffee has received local, regional and national awards for Heritage Intervention...
Together We Can; We Will Make a Difference
Part I
Real Colors® is a dynamic workshop experience using a personality type assessment. The goal is to provide participants with the skills to:
- understand human behavior
- uncover motivators specific to each temperament
- improve communication with others
The basis of this workshop is the Real Colors® Personality Type assessment: a user-friendly, intuitive tool that identifies four personality types common...
Conflict Resolution
Mr. Coffee is a certified mediator with 17 years experience using "principled negotiation" strategies to find applicable solutions by focusing on common interests. He does this by combining best practices in Appreciative Inquiry (AI) with the five key methods of the principled negotiation:
"Separate the people from the problem"
"Focus on interests, not positions"
"Invent options for mutual gain"
"Insist on...
What's Your Type? MBTI and You
Mr. Coffee has facilitated MBTI sessions for 17 years.
Personality is often an overlooked dimension of diversity --- yet it is universal --- MBTI® Master Practitioners differentiate themselves by having a commitment to the highest standards in both the theory and the application of the MBTI assessment.
Using insights from Dr. Pearman's ground breaking book I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You: The Real Meaning of the 16...
Change Management Begins With Recognition that "Hope is Not a Strategy"
What keeps you up at night?
Mr. Coffee has 17 years as an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Practitioner; The AI process uses a dynamic four step "system of inquiry" co-creation and planning to help people, groups and organizations go from good to great!
The most common model focuses audiences using the four phases below:
- DISCOVER: The identification of organizational processes that work...
Laugh For The Health Of It!
Dr. William H. Waddell once taught me that "People are the Funniest Animals." As a certified laughter yoga facilitator with 24 years experience as a soldier-medic and army nurse, I agree.
According to Norman Cousins' laughter is the "mysterious placebo." And, research proves that laughter draws people together in ways that trigger healthy physical and emotional changes in the body. Laughter can reduce stress,...


