Advisory Board on Inclusion, Opportunity & Workforce Engagement
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What is the Advisory Board on Inclusion, Opportunity & Workforce Engagement?
As a corporate citizenship professional, you understand that meaningful progress in creating a welcoming workplace that allows all employees to experience dignity and respect requires both strategic vision and thoughtful policy and procedure implementation. Yet even with sizeable commitments and clear intentions, creating an environment of equal opportunity in an ever-changing global context is challenging. You and your peers are navigating evolving expectations, metrics, and approaches to building truly inclusive cultures that are reflective of the communities where we live, work, and serve customers.
This Advisory Board forms a supportive community of practice that takes an active, engaged approach to both informing and getting counsel from experts on questions such as:
- How do we effectively measure and demonstrate the impact of our workforce engagement initiatives across the employee lifecycle?
- What strategies ensure that all employees work in an environment of dignity and respect?
- What emerging best practices should we consider adopting or adapting for our organizations?
Join the Advisory Board on Workforce Engagement to stay current with leading practices, tackle complex challenges, explore innovative approaches to cultural transformation, and strengthen your organization's competitive advantage as a destination for top talent.
At least one participant from the member company should have decision-making authority for their organization's employee engagement or inclusion and belonging-focused corporate citizenship initiatives.
What can you do as a Workforce Engagement Advisory Board Member?
Exchange ideas and work with peers on programs in your company and beyond. Learn MoreWhat Do Board Members Do?
Advisory Board members work together to identify and correct institutional bias, discrimination, and all forms of workplace inequality. Members can expect to:
- Participate in an ongoing dialogue about workforce engagement issues
- Exchange ideas and work with peers on diverse workforce recruitment and retention strategies
- Gain knowledge and insight into best practices for inclusion and engagement
- Explore cross-sector collaboration with non-profit groups
Each year the board will work as a group to set the advisory agenda to be explored. Advisory Board members will have the opportunity to present their own work and to recommend guest topics and/or speakers. Members will help to shape one or more advisory bulletin publications focused on emerging themes and best practices. Advisory board members are invited (but not required) to be named co-authors of the advisory bulletin publications.
Download the 2024 Bulletin
This report highlights lessons from the Advisory Board for Inclusion, Opportunity & Workforce Engagement, hosted by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. Click on the link to download this report.
DOWNLOAD THE BULLETIN

Board Chair
Hedieh FakhriyazdiChief Diversity Officer, White & Case LLP

Vice Chair
Stacee BarkleyGlobal Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Leader, DPR Construction
Alyssa Auberger
Chief Sustainability Officer
Baker McKenzie
Stacee Barkley
Global Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Leader
DPR Construction
Ebony Burt
Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Wells Fargo
Marredia Crawford
Chief I&D Officer
Baker McKenzie
Gigi Dixon
Executive Vice President, Head of External Engagement
Wells Fargo
Hedieh Fakhriyazdi
Chief Diversity Officer
White & Case LLP
Roselle Gonsalves
Head of Diversity Inclusion & Belonging
ATB Financial
Megan Lopez
Employee Relations Manager
ESET, LLC
David Martin
Director, Global Inclusion & Diversity
Gallagher
Aaysha Noor
Vice President, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Erie Insurance
Marissa Pitchford
Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
ESET, LLC
Candice Simmons
Senior Business Execution Consultant, VP Philanthropy & Community Impact
Wells Fargo
Marisa Tatum
Senior Manager, Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Teradata
Ron Turner
Senior Strategist
Atrium Health
Will Verchereau
DE&I Manager | Programs and Communications
Husch Blackwell
Gwendolyn White
Vice President, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Erie Insurance
Sara Williams
Philanthropy Administrator
Husch Blackwell