Adrienne L. Rice on organizational leadership and staff development

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Adrienne L. Rice is founder of Organizational Solutions, a company that provides organizational analysis, training, and development to small businesses, nonprofits, community, and labor organizations. Organizational Solutions specialties’ include: Strategic Analysis, Leadership Development, Staff Development, Sustainability, Diversity and Inclusion Workshops and Custom Projects.

Here, she shares why she became an entrepreneur, who is an ideal client and what makes her company unique.


What inspired you to become an entrepreneur? 

In 1995, I was a sophomore at Tennessee State University, and while attending one of my African Studies classes, I was taught the philosophy of Ubuntu: “I am because we are; we are because I am.” On one hand, I was drawn to this philosophy, because it preached the belief of a universal bond of sharing that connects all human kind, but on the other hand it help confirm one of my strongest-held beliefs. A belief that there is a part of my success that can always be attributed to the path that others have laid for me, and along with that belief—a very deep feeling of the responsibility of respecting that gift.


So, for the past 15 years, I have had the opportunity to live, travel, and work all across this country and in different parts of the world. I have learned and experience a great deal, and I want to share what I have learned with others — becoming an entrepreneur not only allows me to do that; it also helps me to continue to foster that very strongly-held belief.

Tell me about your educational background.

Tennessee State University, B.S. psychology; Florida A&M University M.S. counseling education

Who would be an ideal client for you? Why?

Any organization or business that understands that, in order to maintain or obtain sustainability and growth, there must always be an investment in a sound approach to leadership and staff development.

What makes your company unique?

Experience that has been tested and proven to render great results.

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

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