Dr. Diandra Renée Gordon, PhD, Esq., is a 2x TEDx Speaker and licensed attorney with over fifteen years of experience in non-profit leadership, ten years of educational leadership, and three years of legal experience. Dr. Diandra Renée has proven success across seas and disciplines — transforming the industries of business, education, and cultural arts.
Known for her innovative ambition to build, she is the founder of MORE, Inc. — a non-profit dedicated to motivating others to reach excellence; Culture ED™ — her cultural equity consulting firm; and Driven While Black™ — an organism with the mission to cultivate, sustain, and celebrate Black excellence globally, a platform that centers the lived experiences of Black people in the pursuit of excellence and one that honors the past, recognizes the present, and prepares for the future.
Dr. Diandra Renée is a native of Columbus, OH and is very passionate about creating an equitable society for people of color and empowering communities by connecting research, policy, and people. Dr. Gordon believes that a major component to achieving this is through the transformation of education.
Dr. Diandra Renée is a proud HBCU graduate with a BA in Psychology from Hampton University, an MS and PhD in Human Development and Family Science from The Ohio State University, and a JD (law degree) from Capital University Law School. Dr. Diandra Renée also holds a Diversity and Inclusion for HR certificate from Cornell University and is a John Maxwell Certified Behavioral Analyst, Speaker, and Coach.
A global force of intelligence, business, scholarship, creativity, and class — Dr. Gordon is known for her advocacy for racial equity for Black people and families, transforming the H.E.A.R.T. of education; encouraging others to pursue excellence; and creatively elevating stories that transform lives.
Dr. Gordon’s scholarly work focuses on the perceptions of parent participants in a culturally adaptive family wellness intervention program for African American families, the Family Time Initiative program, as well as an analysis of institutional practices and outcomes from a racial equity lens. Dr. Gordon uses her proprietary H.E.A.R.T. Framework, a one-of-a-kind framework that helps leaders effectuate meaningful change and cultivate excellence in themselves, their environment, and within other people through practicing greater empathy, self-awareness, and understanding in their relationships with people.
Dr. Gordon intends to build a career with intention and continue to create lasting and effective change using her research, experience, and law studies to create sustainable change and inform policy to build an equitable society for people of color. She has served as an Interim Superintendent of an arts based charter school. In times of leisure, Dr. Gordon enjoys laughing, dancing, good food, traveling, and experiencing the diverse excellence of people and their culture.