Toby is the Vice President of Community Initiatives and Global Partnerships at Tides. Toby designed, developed, and launched The New Majority Opportunity (NMO) Leadership platform. This platform is Tides new infrastructure resource to convene, consult, and coach leaders in communities, corporations, foundations, non-profits, and governmental organizations throughout the US and Global South. We help our clients create environmentally and socially sustainable community based growth, prosperity and social justice impacts that leverage the assets, identities, and preferred futures of emerging new majority communities and their Diasporas throughout the US and Global South. Toby has held executive positions with Arthur Anderson and Co., Kraft General Foods, Baxter Healthcare, and Amoco Oil. He brings to Tides over 25 years’ of experience working across nonprofit, for profit, and international development sectors as an executive, leadership coach and organizational development consultant. He has worked with a broad range of leaders including CEOs, Heads of State, country managers, grassroots activists and advocates. Mr. Thompkins is a best selling author, speaker and journalist on leadership, creativity and innovation, managing change, and cultural diversity. While living and working in Ghana he led a USAID public private partnership to empower local mining communities to effectively respond to the consequences of surfacing gold mining. He also moonlighted as the Africa correspondent for Ebony/Jet magazines. Toby possesses an M.P.A. and undergraduate degree in psychology and political science. He lives in New York City.