250 Person App Company

CHALLENGE
Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Design & Implementation within the context of a company-wide DE&I Committee

SOLUTION

  • Performed culture assessment
  • Reviewed existing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) goals
  • Designed and facilitated process to amend DE&I principles based on workforce input (across executive and line employees)
  • Guided DE&I team in development of plan to gradually elevate in house expertise and enhance diversity practices
  • Coached HR and Executive teams for successful execution

Large Technology Hardware Manufacturer

CHALLENGE
Anemic diversity recruiting track record

SOLUTION

  • Oriented within company culture and recruitment preferences
  • Developed a process of introducing candidates on a monthly basis for consideration by HR Recruiting Managers across six divisions
  • Narrowed candidate lists and made select introductions
  • Broadened the HR Recruiting Managers’ conceptions about candidate pool

Large Entertainment Company

CHALLENGE
Recruit diverse new and seasoned talent to produce audience-target content

SOLUTION

  • Advised on initial design of contest to source new talent
  • Coached new director talent
  • Designed engaging programming (e.g. panels, dinners, film premier events)
  • Drove evolution of the program to separate writer/director roles, increasing the number of new creatives engaged and impacted
  • Expanded awareness of the initiative on major film festival landscapes

Activist Hedge Fund

CHALLENGE
Activist hedge fund seeking to capitalize on the theory that diverse board talent adds value to governance and oversight of companies held in the portfolio.

SOLUTION

  • Reviewed companies being acquired and held in portfolio
  • Matched specific companies held in the portfolio with board candidates sourced from a broad base of diverse executive talent
  • Introduced board candidates to hedge fund, increasing diversity among those considered

Leading North American Film Festivals

CHALLENGE
To continually change the way the independent film industry thinks about Black content creators at the film festivals from which the film distribution pipeline selects their products for the year.

SOLUTION

  • Created a supportive space where black artists can access new platforms, build lasting networks and learn about financing, production, marketing, and distribution.
  • Utilized robust relationships in the film and television industries help educate, inspire, and support budding and experienced filmmakers, producers and executives on the craft and business of filmmaking.
  • Outreached to the Hollywood establishment and key partners, to help them understand the power and viability of the stories this community has to tell.
  • Engaged partners ranging from Sundance Film Festival (Sundance Institute), Academy of Motion Picture, Directors Guild of America Arts & Sciences, CAA, Warner Media, Netflix, to The Coca-Cola to Moet & Chandon.