Anthony Jones, M.Ed., President/Practice Lead
Anthony is the Practice Lead of RBD Consulting Firm, LLC a human capital practice that specializes in innovative thinking and proven tools to help organizations understand and seize opportunities within a diversified global talent market. He heads the company’s people strategy, helping its clients identify, develop, motivate and reward its high performing and high potential talent in ways that fit with broader objectives.
Anthony has appeared on the Fox Television Network and been quoted in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, HR Executive Magazine, India Management Magazine and Ebony. He has spoken nationally to such groups as the American Council on Education, General Electric, Illinois Association of Educational Opportunities Program Personnel, Society for Human Resource Management, University of California at Berkeley, National YMCA Black Achievers and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida. To help individuals maximize their life experience, Anthony has also published the book and workbook, Success By Design: Becoming the Person You Were Destined to Be.
Along with RBD Consulting, Anthony has served as Director of Global Diversity at the Convergys Corporation. Convergys is the world leader in integrated billing, customer care, and employee care services. It employs over 70,000 employees in 48 different countries worldwide. He was responsible for company-wide inclusion and diversity strategy, managing many of Convergys’ internal and external stakeholder relationships, developing and implementing diversity communication strategies, and serving as a primary spokesperson on diversity matters.
During his career, Anthony led recruitment for INROADS, Inc. as the National Director for Recruitment Services and managed over 7% of the organization’s entire corporate budget. INROADS is an international career development organization that recruits and trains talented minority students and places them in business and industry. His clients included Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, IBM and a host of other Fortune 500 and 1000 companies. Prior to INROADS, Anthony also served Vice-President of Enrollment Management at Fisk University, a U.S. News & World Report tier-one national liberal arts school and leading historically black college. During his tenure Anthony oversaw tremendous growth in full-time enrollees, increasing freshmen enrollment by 45% and student retention from 75% to 83%. Knowledgeable in student retention, several of Anthony’s retention exercises were highlighted nationally.
Most recently, Anthony led the recruitment, financial aid and retention strategy for DePauw University as Vice-President of Enrollment Management. DePauw is a $644 million dollar endowed institution, ranked #53 among national liberal arts schools by U.S. News & World Report. With a total university operating budget of $148 MM, Anthony's budgetary responsibilities equaled $60 MM, including financial aid.
Anthony is a Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fisk University, holds a Masters in Higher Education Administration from Vanderbilt University and a certification in Diversity Management from the University of Houston.