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President
17 Washington Court
Livingston, NJ 07039-2118
Phone: (973) 533-0841
Fax: (973) 533-1425
Email: pbye@MDBGroup.com
September 27, 2009
To Whom It May Concern:
I have known Kevin A. Carter since 2003. In 2008, I was extremely pleased to be able to
bring Mr. Carter onto our team as a senior consultant given his strong executive presence,
integrity, and well-known and widely-respected expertise as a thought leader in the field of
diversity and inclusion (D&I). Mr. Carter’s perspective is that while there are many valid
reasons for an organization to focus on D&I, it is only sustainable if the work is directly
aligned with and helps achieve the organization’s key business and growth objectives. This
is also a central tenet of MDB Group’s work. I have the utmost confidence in Mr. Carter as a
representative of our firm with any client or prospective client. He has been and continues
to be an invaluable member of our team.
One example of this is MDB Group’s work during late 2008 and the first half of 2009 with a
Fortune 500 diversified financial services company. MDB Group was engaged to perform a
comprehensive cultural audit of the firm including processes, policies, culture, development
programs, recruiting function, and workforce demographics. The findings were to be
provided in a set of comprehensive findings and recommendations documents.
Mr. Carter was an essential member of the engagement team. He developed the conceptual
framework for the audit combining six-sigma ideas and established audit standards with
MDB Group’s Business-Aligned® D&I planning methodology. This provided a clear way to
organize the multifaceted audit data so that it was easily presented to the client’s senior
leadership. The framework also helped the client develop subsequent action plans to
implement the recommendations.
Mr. Carter personally audited many of the policies and practices. He applied sophisticated
and leading-edge D&I and cultural lenses to identify existing strengths and ways in which
the various policies and practices could be made more inclusive and applicable to a wider
range of cultural perspectives.
Sincerely,
Peter L. Bye