 Ted Childs |
Childs is IBM’s Vice President, Global Workforce Diversity with worldwide responsibility for workforce diversity programs and policies.
In addition to a variety of human resource staff and management assignments, Childs served as executive assistant to Dr. Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP, on an IBM Social Service Leave from March 1982 to September 1983.
Childs is a graduate of West Virginia State College and a member of the board of directors and past president of the West Virginia State College Foundation. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC); The Conference Board’s Work Force Diversity Council; and the Leadership Education for Asian Pacific’s Board of Directors (LEAP).
In December 1989, Childs was appointed by New York Governor Mario Cuomo to the State Governor’s Advisory Council on Child Care. In May 1992, he was named co-chair of the National Council of Jewish Women’s Work Family Advisory Board and in November of that year that organization presented him with their Founder’s Award for commitment to quality of life issues for America’s families.
In 1995, Robert Blancato, executive director of the White House Conference on Aging appointed Childs as an official delegate to the 1995 conference. In 1996, Childs was invited by Vice President Albert Gore to serve on the eight person planning team for the 1996 Family Re-Union “V” that the Vice President and Mrs. Gore hosted in Nashville, Tenn. Childs was named by Working Mother magazine in 1997 as one of 25 Men Friends of the Family—who have made it easier for working parents to raise and nurture children. Also in 1997, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin appointed Childs as an advisor to the Secretary’s Working Group on Child Care to focus on best practices which address child care problems facing working parents.
In February of 1998, The National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies presented Joan Lombardi, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, and Childs with its Lifetime Achievement Award. In March of 2000, Childs received the Diversity Awards 2000 for Excellence in Diversity in the Corporate Sector from Working Mother magazine. Childs was installed as a Fellow in The National Academy of Human Resources in 2001 and in 2002, Savoy magazine and the Women and Diversity Leadership Summit honored Childs with their Lifetime Achievement Awards. IBM and Childs were honored in 2003 with the Corporate Leadership Award by The Human Rights Campaign.
Childs received Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degrees from Pace University (2001) and West Virginia State College (2003). He holds life memberships in the NAACP, the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., The National Organization of Women (NOW), the Sierra Club, and the Bass Anglers Sportsmen Society.
Child’s visit is free and open the public. His talk is being sponsored by Rob Shook, Wabash class of 1983 and director of Worldwide Software Volume Licensing at IBM.