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SPEAKER BIOS
Diana Peterson-More

 

Diana Peterson-More, a labor lawyer and seasoned corporate executive, left a Fortune 200 Company to launch The Organizational Effectiveness Group ("OEG") in 1996. Drawing upon her 15 years as a human resources executive and corporate officer, Peterson-More's Company focuses on people strategies and organizational development systems that support strategic workplace goals.

In response to client request, in 1998, Peterson-More founded HRO on the GO, a full service, outsourced human resources consulting firm.

She is a guest lecturer at USC's Graduate School of Management, and Phillips Graduate Institute’s Organizational Behavior Program, a Law and Motion Judge for Loyola Law School, and an adjunct professor teaching Political Science at East Los Angeles Community College.

Immediately prior to forming OEG, Peterson-More headed for three years the human resources department of The Times Mirror Company. Responsible for Times Mirror's workforce management, pay and performance management, employment policies, all insured and qualified benefit programs, she spear-headed a company-wide human resources re-engineering project and a separate nation-wide diversity task force, implemented a cutting-edge competency-based pay and performance management system, and, oversaw standardization of Times Mirror's benefit programs that covered over 25,000 employees and their dependents.

 

Before joining Times Mirror, Ms. Peterson-More spent 12 years with the Southern California Edison Company and SCEcorp. There, she served as a labor lawyer, a human resources manager, and a health care executive, prior to being elected Corporate Secretary in 1989.

 

Peterson-More received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history from UCLA and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School. As an undergraduate, she studied a year abroad in Madrid, Spain.

 

Ms. Peterson-More is a community volunteer for governmental and non-profit organizations. Government appointments include the Board of Supervisors Child Care Advisory Board (founding board vice-chair), the Workforce Investment Board of Los Angeles (where she serves as one of the Board’s Vice Chairs, and Chairs the Training and Support Services Committee and also serves on the Executive Committee), the Pasadena Planning Commission (past Chair and Chair, Condo Conversion Task Force), Pasadena’s Board of Zoning Appeals and Pasadena’s Housing Affordability Task Force.

 

Current non-profit board memberships include Union Station Foundation and Santa Anita Family Services.
Ms. Peterson-More is a past board officer for the AIDS Service Center, the Rotary Club of Pasadena, the Los Angeles Women's Foundation, the Women’s Economic Development Corporation, the Alliance for Businesses and Childcare Development, the YWCA of Pasadena, Foothills-Valley, and is a founding board president of the Child Educational Center, Caltech/JPL Community. Peterson-More has chaired several events, including the 1999 NOW LDEF's BUDDY Awards luncheon and the YWCA's 2000 Second Century luncheon.

 

Among other honors, Peterson-More was given the NAACP of Pasadena’s corporate award (2005) and the YWCA of Pasadena, Foothill-Valley’s public service award in 2006.

 

Ms. Peterson-More and her two daughters reside in Pasadena, California; her son and daughter-in-law live in Rome, Italy.