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Anurima Bhargava
Anurima Bhargava is the founder and president of Anthem of Us, a strategic advisory and consulting firm that promotes dignity and justice within corporations, schools, and communities. She was chief of the Educational Opportunities Section of the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division from 2010 to 2016, and served on the White House Task Force to Prevent Campus Sexual Assault. In December 2018, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Bhargava to serve as US Commissioner on International Religious Freedom. From 2016-2017, Bhargava was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. Before joining the Justice Department, she was counsel and director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Education Practice, counsel at the New York City Department of Education, and an investment banker at Merrill Lynch. She serves on several boards, including Doc Society, Poverty Race Research Action Council, and the Advisory Board for Public Service at Harvard.
Laszlo Bock
Laszlo Bock is the CEO of Humu Inc., a company that makes work better through science, machine learning, and a little bit of love. From 2006 to 2016, Bock was senior vice president of People Operations at Google and a member of Google's management team. Bock is credited with creating the field of "people analytics," the application of academic-quality rigor and Google-paced innovation to people management. He also led the development of the Google Cloud Jobs API and what is now known as Google for Jobs. He joined Google from the General Electric Co., and earlier was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. In 2010 he was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" and in 2015 the "HR Professional of the Decade." His bestselling book, WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead (2015), has been published in more than 20 languages.
Kesha Cash
Kesha Cash is the Founder and General Partner at Impact America Fund, a social impact venture capital firm investing in high-growth companies that foster economic agency among low-income communities in the US. Before launching Impact America Fund, Cash co-founded Jalia Ventures with Josh Mailman to invest in mission-driven entrepreneurs of color. She has also been an investment associate at Bridges Ventures in the United Kingdom and has worked as an operational consultant to small businesses in inner-city Los Angeles and as a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Merrill Lynch. Cash was recently named one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business" and is the subject of a 2016 Stanford Graduate School of Business case study on how to form a successful impact venture capital firm. She currently serves on the board of directors of EILEEN FISHER, Inc.
Daniel Coyle
Daniel Coyle is a former senior editor and now a contributing editor at Outside magazine, where he has covered outstanding performers for years. He has written for Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Magazine, and Play. Coyle has appeared as a guest on Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, ESPN, CNN, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Talk of the Nation, and numerous other national programs. Coyle is the bestselling author of The Little Book of Talent (2012) and The Talent Code (2009). His book, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (2018), identifies three essential skills that generate cohesion and cooperation and explains how diverse groups learn to function with a single mind. Coyle has been nominated twice for the National Magazine Award and has been featured in The Best American Sports Writing (2007).
Catrice M. Jackson
Catrice M. Jackson is the global visionary leader of the Awakened Conscious Shift, the CEO of Catriceology Enterprises, an international speaker, and a best-selling author. She's a self-described "straight up, on the rocks with no chaser" voice for racial justice who is unapologetic and unflinching with her anti-racism message. She founded SHETalks-WETalk™ race talks for women and WETalks for women of color. Jackson serves up the hard truths necessary to eliminate the lethal infection of racism from humanity. She is a licensed mental health practitioner, a licensed professional counselor, and she is pursuing a doctoral degree in organizational psychology at Walden University. Jackson is also a certified domestic abuse and sexual assault advocate, trainer, and speaker.
Howard Ross
Howard Ross is a lifelong social justice advocate and is considered one of the world's seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing unconscious bias. He is the author of Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance, and the Washington Post bestseller, Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives. His latest book, Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart, published in May 2018. Ross has specialized in the synthesis of neuro-cognitive and social science research and direct application related to diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility work. In 47 of the United States and over 40 countries, Ross has successfully implemented large-scale organizational culture change efforts in diversity and cultural integration for academia, governmental institutions, professional services corporations, Fortune 500 companies, and other organizations.
Skip Spriggs
Skip Spriggs is President and CEO of The Executive Leadership Council, the preeminent membership organization for black CEOs, board directors, and senior-most executives at Fortune 1000, Global 500, and equivalent companies. He leads the organization's efforts to increase the number of global black executives in C-Suites, on corporate boards, and in global enterprises. Spriggs most recently served as senior executive vice president and chief human resources officer at TIAA. He has held executive leadership roles at The Home Depot, Levi Strauss & Co., and CIGNA Corp., where he served as senior vice president of human resources, chief diversity officer, and president of the Cigna Foundation. He is currently a member of the boards of TIAA, FSB (TIAA Direct), Savannah State University's College of Business Administration, and the Institute for Corporate Productivity.
RELATED RESOURCES
• Bock, Laszlo. Work rules!: Insights from inside Google that will transform how you live and lead.. Twelve, 2015.
• Coyle, Daniel. The culture code: The secrets of highly successful groups.. Bantam, 2018.
• Report of the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Culture as a Corporate Asset.
• NACD Resource Center: Board Diversity
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