Kevin’s involvement with Diversity has been an extension of his legal experience.  Developing Diversity programs at several firms, most recently at Holland & Knight LLP, and interfacing internally and externally with the surrounding legal community has enabled Kevin to create a proactive and reputable personal brand of excellence.  While at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Affirmative Action and Diversity Program, Kevin monitored the diversity matrices, which included salary, rate of promotion, etc.  regarding the age, gender, and ethnicity of employees at the laboratory and provided analysis regarding same.  As Vice President of the California Diversity Council, Kevin strategically advises on event planning, programming, and membership development.

Finally, Kevin has become a social networking and career development expert.  He is the founder of two professional networking LinkedIn groups in the Bay Area with roughly 2,000 members combined, that meet regularly to identify business goals and objectives and facilitate referrals to achieve same.  He organizes monthly and quarterly events to bring the Bay Area business community together and creates career networking opportunities for those who he encounters.  He is also the founder of the very successful Career Mentorship and Entrepreneurship Symposium series, co-sponsored by Golden Gate University, which is designed to educate job seekers with the most update resume writing, interviewing skills, and social media strategies to maximize their career objectives and opportunities.  Mr. Nichols’s social networking prowess and capabilities have been featured on LinkedIn’s Blog, Yahoo’s Blog, in the Examiner, CNN Money, and the Wall Street Journal.  For more information, please visit  www.klnpublishing.com.