Larry Solomon, CEO of Solomon People Solutions, managed wave after wave of fundamental change during his tenure at Cadbury-Schweppes and Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS). He served as executive vice president of human resources for DPS from 2003 to August 2013.

An educator at heart, Solomon currently teaches a post-graduate MBA course on “C-Suite Leadership” at the University of Texas at Dallas. He wrote Translate, Motivate, Activate: A Leader’s Guide to Mobilizing Change as an educational tool to aid business leaders, HR professionals and MBA students to successfully achieve sustainable corporate change.

All of the profits from the sales of his book are donated to My Possibilities. More information can be found at www.mypossibilities.org.

Solomon received his training and development diploma from the Institute of Personnel Management in Johannesburg, South Africa, and earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. He and his wife Charmaine, have four children, Tascha, Tyron, Donovan and Kyle, and they live in Plano, Texas.