Toni Bowie
Founder & Managing Partner
Toni Bowie has dedicated over 30 years creating safe spaces to facilitate vital conversations and actionable change around equity, diversity, and inclusion (DEI) through consulting, coaching, group facilitation, workshops and keynote presentations. It is her warm, non-judgmental demeanor that captivates audiences nationwide.
Toni’s foundation began at an early age when her grandmother instilled in her to accept people for who and where they are at any given time in their life cycle. As the daughter, wife and mother of active-duty military personnel, Toni has had unique and valuable exposure and relationships with people and cultures around the globe. One of her most enjoyable experiences was in Japan where she taught English as a second language to adults from eight different nationalities and cultures.
She continues to build on this foundation as she and the MaxLife team provide support to organizations and leaders to strategically develop and implement policies targeted to transform workplace culture and achieve their DEI vision, mission and goals.
Her career began in higher education where she served as Director of International & Minority Programs, Associate Dean of Minority Affairs and Associate Dean of Intercultural Advancement. Throughout her career, Toni has provided her expertise to private and public entities ranging in size from less than 10 employees to as many as 200,000 members.
Toni has a vast amount of experience providing education through the development and facilitation of workshops on preventing workplace sexual harassment, assault and domestic violence. MaxLife’s sexual harassment prevention workshops focus on awareness, respect and civility in the workplace.
As she trains and coaches others, Toni focuses on this quote by Thomas Edison: “If we do all that we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”
Toni is a certified diversity executive with certifications in Organizational Development, Change Management, and Professional Coaching. She holds a B.A in communications from Mississippi State University and an M.S. in psychology from Hood College. She and Terry, her husband, reside in Maryland and are parents to two daughters and grandparents to Reagan.