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City Connect Detroit: Bio
Wesley "Skip" Norris
Consultant
Tel: 313-963-9722
Wesley “Skip” Norris, a consultant with City Connect Detroit, works exclusively with the African American Business Alliance (AABA), one of City Connect Detroit’s collaborative arrangements. As lead consultant working with the AABA, he is working to formulate the four organizations that comprise the Alliance into one common organization. This includes playing on the strength of this synergy and implementing a strategy which will result in a seamless organizational structure with common membership body, database, and headquarters.
Skip has a breadth of experience in both the nonprofit and private sectors, presently serving as the Jazz Artistic Director at the Music Hall. He also owns and operates his own private management consulting company, which specializes in business strategies, turnaround, diversity, and generating revenue. Skip retired from General Motors after working there for twenty five years, starting as a junior in college, and leaving the company as a Diversity Manager working in supplier diversity.
Describing himself as an “exurbanite” Skip was born and raised in Detroit, left the city to live in the suburbs, and finally returned to Detroit, a city he says is returning to its most vibrant years. A graduate of Eastern Michigan University, where he earned his degree in Criminology and American History, he went on to earn his Masters in Administration from Central Michigan University and later completed the Minority Executive Development Program at Dartmouth University’s Amos Tuck School of Business.
You could not have a complete biographical sketch of Skip without mentioning his long love affair with Jazz, the music that changed his life. He first began producing concerts during his sophomore year at Eastern Michigan and his involvement has grown since then to include his current position with the Music Hall in Detroit, and role as one of the founding sponsors of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York where he is a special consultant to the programming activities. In addition to Jazz music, Skip’s hobbies include reading, sports and shopping. He is a member of the Michigan Minority Business Development Council and volunteers his time with the Rites of Passage program at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church.
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