Who is Bettina Byrd-Giles?

Bettina Byrd-Giles is founder and president of the Byrd’s Nest, LLC in Birmingham, AL. She has been in a training and program development capacity for over 14 years. Her training experience includes higher education, healthcare, not-for-profits and the manufacturing industry.

She has worked with organizations such as Mercedes-Benz USA in Vance, AL, The Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, Eastman Kodak's Network North Star, Rochester NY, The Children's Defense Fund-Rural Black Woman's Initiative (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia), the BE&K Family of Companies and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Ms. Byrd-Giles…

-achieved a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and Master of Arts in Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

-has completed an intercultural foundations certificate from the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communications held on the campus of Pacific University in Oregon where has

-completed coursework in “Delivering Healthcare Across Cultures,” “Training Design for International and Multicultural Programs,” "Latino Cultural Patterns” and “Working with Asians." She also studied "Leadership Across Cultures" at the University of Minnesota and Globalization, Transnationalism, and Migration at UAB.”

-was selected to Co-chair the Martin Luther King Conflict Resolution Conference Malawi (Southern Africa) sponsored by the Fulbright Foundation, The University of Malawi, Miles College and Diversity University.

-serves as a program director for the Office of Cultural Diversity and Career Development where she designed Diversity UAB. Diversity UAB is an intercultural education program geared toward faculty, staff and administration.

-is founder of Intercultural Education Services, an organization that assists not-for-profit organizations in building cross-cultural and diversity programs.

-was honored in celebration of the United Nations International Year for the Culture of Peace 2000, the Greater Birmingham Chapter of the UNA for the founding of Diversity University, a cross-cultural program uniting cultures from six colleges and universities, since 1995.

-is a member, Phi Beta Delta Society of International Scholars

Ms. Byrd-Giles’ expertise includes program development, organizational culture, and training design. She has written articles for business publications such as the Birmingham Business Journal.