Frank Lloyd
Dr. Frank Lloyd is a board member and Diversity Equity and Inclusion Chair for Literacy Achieves, a Dallas, Texas-based non-profit that teaches English as a second language to adult immigrants to facilitate their employment, parenting, and other life skills. He is the producer of Literacy Achieves’ podcast, When I Got Here: Untold Immigrant Stories where immigrants share inspiring personal stories of why they left their homelands, how they got to the U.S., and the lives they are making here. Dr. Lloyd is the former Associate Dean of Executive Education at Southern Methodist University's (SMU) Edwin L. Cox School of Business, where he led the development and delivery of award-winning executive leadership programs and established a national center of excellence on Latino leadership. Dr. Lloyd joined SMU’s Cox School from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, where he was Vice President of Executive Education. Prior to joining Thunderbird, Dr. Lloyd was a human resources executive with General Motors. Among the highlights of his career, he was responsible for organization development and leadership training for GM Europe during its transition from mass to lean production, and he was the first GM Human Resources manager at New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI), the historic joint venture between GM and Toyota noted for its innovative labor-management relations and the introduction of the Toyota production system. Dr. Lloyd is an emeritus member of the Board of Directors of UNICON, the Global Consortium for University-based Executive Education. He is the former board chair of Daystar US which mobilizes resources to support Daystar, a non-denominational Christian university in Nairobi, Kenya whose mission is to prepare servant leaders for Africa. He also served on the national board of Inroads, an organization with the mission to develop and place talented underserved youth in business and industry and prepare them for corporate and community leadership. Dr. Lloyd was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Isfahan in Iran. He also served as a U.S. Information Agency curriculum consultant for Germany. He earned a master’s degree at Purdue University and a Ph. D. at the University of Iowa. His undergraduate degree is from Occidental College.
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When I Got Here: William (Rwanda) – Miracle Man
"William Twayigize is a Hutu who miraculously survived horrific experiences as a refugee, a Tutsi prisoner, and a Nairobi street boy to complete an elite education and achieve a distinguished academic career." ...
When I Got Here: Cigar Entrepreneur
"Jose Hernandez's ambition to become a doctor in Cuba was thwarted. Hear how he came to the US and planted seeds that revived his grandfather's business." ...
When I Got Here: Different. Don’t be Afraid
"She grew up in a small Ohio town where her father was a medical doctor. Her story is bookended by prejudice she experienced as a child and by recent hate directed at Asian Americans." ...
When I Got Here: Untold Immigrant Stories – Mylinh: Resilient, Resourceful, Rejoining
"In 1979, Mylinh Luong left communist Vietnam with her father, mother, and four siblings in a crowded fishing boat." ...
When I Got Here: Untold Immigrant Stories – Ana: A Girl from Gail
"She knows the system from both sides. She wishes the whole country could be more like the tiny town that prepared her for U.S. success." ...
When I Got Here: Untold Immigrant Stories: – Big Al
"At first euphoric over the ouster of Saddam Hussein, he grew so discouraged with the outcome that he gave up everything and left home to rebuild his life." ...
When I Got Here – Untold Immigrant Stories: Alexandra
"It’s a story of belonging everywhere, yet nowhere—and why she loves America." ...
When I Got Here – Untold Immigrant Stories: Jabeen
"Jabeen, a Pakistan-born woman watched her mother, who did not know English, struggle to the point of suicide in England." ...
When I Got Here – Untold Immigrant Stories: Daniel
"Is Daniel just lucky or does he make his own luck?" ...
When I Got Here – Untold Immigrant Stories: Mayela
"This immigrant's experience shows the power of words—and the prejudice behind them—to hurt. Is her faith in the American dream for people like her naïve?" ...