Brian Buford
Competência de coaching: Career, Education, Keynotes, Leadership, Managers, Non-Profit Organizations, Personal Development, Students/Youth, Teams
Disponibilidade de coaching: Is accepting new clients
Método(s) de coaching: Coaching Packages, Corporate Training Programs (e.g. Your Location), In Person, Individual (In-Person, Phone or Zoom), Keynote Speaker, Online Video Conference (e.g. Zoom), Phone, Seminars & Retreats, Workshops
Idioma(s) de coaching: English (USA)
Brian Buford is the Director of Employee Development and Success at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. With 31 years of service to the university, Brian has dedicated his career to building a campus community where all students, faculty, and staff feel welcome, safe, and included. Key achievements under his leadership include opening a staffed LGBT Center in 2007, the first of its kind in Kentucky; earning a five-star rating on the Campus Pride index six years in a row; launching the Bayard Rustin LGBT themed housing community, the first of its kind in the south; opening a satellite LGBT Center on the Health Sciences Center campus; and leading the effort to being named the most LGBT-welcoming campus in the United States by LGBT Outfitters.
In his last assignment as Assistant Provost for Diversity, Brian guided the diversity planning process campuswide; delivered diversity training; served as founder and chair of the Bias Incident Response Team; and advised the administration on campus climate issues and concerns. He is an instructor to graduate students in the College of Education and is an associate consultant for Catapult Now. In 2016 Brian was appointed to the National Diversity Advisory Council for the American Red Cross and also established Kentucky’s first scholarship for undocumented students.
Honors and achievements include the Ally Award, Transwomen National, 2015; Proclamation, Louisville Metro Council, 2014; Humanitarian Award, Association of Black Students, 2013; Louisville Connector, Leadership Louisville, 2010; Outstanding Service Award, University of Louisville, 1996. In 2017 he was named the grand marshal of the Kentuckiana Pride Parade. In 2019 he was a featured panelist at an event honoring him and three other Louisville Legends in the Making.
He is the namesake of the Brian Buford Endowed LGBT Alumni Scholarship and the Brian Buford Visionary Award given at the 2018 Pride at the Museum gala.
Personal accomplishments include a thru-hike of the 2,175-mile Appalachian Trail in 2007 and the 500-mile Camino de Santiago in 2012. Brian uses he/him/his pronouns.