Valda Boyd Ford

Valda Boyd Ford, MPH, MS, RN, is founder and CEO of the Center for Human Diversity, the creator of the "Sex Is Not for Sissies" seminar and retreats, and one of America's leading presenters with more than 50 speaking engagements each year worldwide.

Over the past thirty years she has worked in more than three dozen countries with CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, tribal chiefs, Afghani teachers and Buddhist monks to improve leadership skills, decrease conflict and improve health. She has demonstrated that there are some basic universal themes at play regardless of the venue and regardless of the geography.

Valda's featured presentations include:Sex is not for Sissies: A Grownup Look at Sexual Literacy, Recovering From a Faux Pas Life, Getting Past the Paralysis of Political Correctness, I May Be Fat But You're Stupid, Diversity 101, and Living, Laughing & Loving.