Meet Our Thought Leaders: The Team Behind the Wisdom
Ralph G. Moore
Founder & President
Philosopher turned supply chain strategist with 45+ years in supplier inclusion and supplier development. Ralph brings unparalleled expertise in transforming procurement organizations through strategic thinking and proven methodologies.
Reginald K. Layton
Chief Technology Officer & Lead Consulting Partner
Practitioner turned expert in supplier inclusion best practices implementation, data-driven supplier engagement metrics, and ESG reporting. Reginald combines technical excellence with deep operational knowledge.
Deep Expertise
Combined decades of experience in supplier inclusion strategy and implementation across Fortune 500 companies.
Trusted Partners
Long-term relationships with clients built on results, integrity, and shared commitment to inclusive excellence.
Innovation Leaders
Pioneering digital tools and methodologies that set new standards in the supplier inclusion consulting field.
RGMA’s leaders have spent more than four decades shaping the supplier inclusion space—and they’re still changing the game today.
Ralph G. Moore founded RGMA in 1979. RGMA was the lead training resource for the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) for 24 years, enabling Ralph Moore to train two generations of supplier inclusion practitioners. He leveraged the lessons learned from Arthur Andersen on the importance of effective processes to create the RGMA 5-Levels© of Supplier Diversity Maturity Model in 1994. He also created the RGMA Ten Components of a World-Class Supplier Diversity Program, which was the model for developing the NMSDC Eight Best Practices. Over the past 45 years, RGMA has advised more than 100 corporations (including 20 members of the Billion Dollar Roundtable), 25 government agencies, and 40 non-profits and universities worldwide. Mr. Moore has been awarded the coveted NMSDC Leadership Award and the Harriet R. Michel Chairman’s Award. He was also a crucial participant in NMSDC’s 1995/96 missions that introduced supplier diversity to the Republic of South Africa. Over the years, RGMA has been retained by Walmart, Walgreen Co., Albertson’s, P&G, Kellogg’s, Colgate, and Johnson & Johnson. Mr. Moore has also guided RGMA’s game-changing diverse supplier development practice, which includes advising over 100 SBA 8(a) corporations and developing an RGMA-5 Levels© for Diverse Suppliers, a maturity model driven by the ten diverse supplier best practices.
Reginald K. Layton is the only supplier inclusion practitioner in history to have guided a corporation to winning the NMSDC Corporation of the Year twice during his 25-year career at Johnson Controls. He led Johnson Controls to winning Corporation of the Year by six different regional organizations — including the Minority Supplier Development Councils of Chicago, Maryland/DC, Southwest, South Region (Alabama), Tennessee, and Tri-State, and Michigan — 26 times. In addition, Mr. Layton was named Minority Supplier Development Leader of the Year in 2013 and 2008 and Minority Business Enterprise Advocate of the Year in 2003 by NMSDC. In 2010, he designed and launched the NMSDC Centers of Excellence program, which received $250,000 in funding from the JCI Foundation. He was the architect of four minority joint ventures, including the Bridgewater Interiors transaction that created the world’s largest minority-owned automotive interior manufacturing company. Johnson Controls’ supplier inclusion initiatives contributed to the company winning $6 billion in revenue. In 2018, he wrote, filmed, directed, and produced The History of Supplier Diversity for Minority Business Development — a documentary preserving the narrative of minority business in America. Mr. Layton also created the Layton Compass, a tool for determining supplier inclusion strategy and measuring performance. Mr. Layton also served on the NMSDC Executive Committee for more than ten years. He managed JCI’s memberships with 17 NMSDC Regional Councils, including his role as Chairman of the Southwest Minority Supplier Development Council.