Alma Sonngi Beck

Alma Soongi Beck is an attorney and diversity consultant based in San Francisco, California. Alma has worked in the diversity field since 1990 and leads diversity training and consulting processes for law firms, companies, agencies, and non-profit organizations on human and cultural diversity awareness, cross cultural communication, and cross cultural conflict resolution. Formerly as an employment and labor lawyer at a large San Francisco law firm, Ms. Beck also has extensive experience developing and facilitating harassment prevention and anti-discrimination training, as well as an intimate understanding of the dynamics and challenges faced by lawyers and law firms on issues relating to diversity.

Ms. Beck's expertise in consulting and presenting includes multicultural awareness, cross-cultural communication and relationships, cultural workstyle diversity, conflict resolution, team building, and outreach strategies for recruitment, retention and inclusion.

Her current projects include working with Innovations International and the Full Circle Diversity Initiative. Innovations International is an international consulting firm founded in 1983 to assist companies and organizations in improving productivity and profitability through organizational transformation, focusing on the areas of: Diversity, High-Performance, Leadership, Creativity and Innovation, Work-Life Quality & Balance, and Spirituality in the Workplace.

The Full Circle Diversity Initiative (“A New Threshold for the Lesbian/Gay/ Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) Community”) is a project of Bay Area LGBT diversity consultants dedicated to improving the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of LGBT organizations through increasing awareness and skills around diversity issues.

Ms. Beck received her J.D. from Georgetown Law School and her B.A. in Ethnic and Asian American Studies from Yale University. Ms. Beck's current legal work is as a solo practitioner in the area of estate planning and administration, and, for unmarried and same sex couples, domestic partnership and property co-ownership issues.

For more information, please visit www.asbdiversity.com.