Millennium Learning Concepts, LLC

Dr. Roger Cleveland is a transformational leader and groundbreaking researcher in the fields of diversity, equity, multicultural education and academic innovation. Cleveland has dedicated his life to empowering businesses, public institutions and schools to embrace diversity and inclusion. His unique experience as a results-driven educator and revolutionary thought leader makes him a sought-after lecturer, teacher and academic consultant.

Dr. Cleveland has spent more than 22 years in K-12, and higher education. His teaching expertise has allowed him to educate students at: Morehead State University, The University of Kentucky, Middle Tennessee State University, and Eastern Kentucky University. Cleveland has published nearly two dozen equity, inclusion and education-related peer reviewed research articles. He has hosted hundreds of diversity and inclusion workshops and lectures nationwide. Additionally, Cleveland is a founding member, and Assistant Director, of the Black Males Working Academy; a program focused on college and career readiness through academics, social-emotional learning and student achievement.

Cleveland’s work and service have earned him various awards and recognitions. In 2014 he was inducted into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame. Cleveland was named Professor of the Year by the Kentucky Association of Blacks in Higher Education. He has also received the P.G. Peeples Equity and Excellence Achievement Award. As a professor at Eastern Kentucky University, Dr. Cleveland was dubbed one of the “Teachers Making a Difference.”

Dr. Cleveland is the CEO and President of Millennium Learning Concepts Consulting Company, an agency which focuses on helping organizations meet their goals in the areas of: cultural proficiency, instructional equity, implicit bias, closing achievement gaps, learning styles, transforming school culture, conducting culture audits, and school improvement planning.
Cleveland earned his Doctor of Educational Foundations from the University of Cincinnati in 1998. He also holds a Master’s in the Sociology of Education from Union College, and a Bachelor of Communications from Morehead University.

The Middlesboro, Kentucky, native, resides in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife, Audra. He is the father of three amazing college students Maya, Taylor and Dorian.