Amy Lazarus

workplace culture, employee engagement, Millennial leadership, inclusive interview practices, and implementing theory-to-practice. Select clients include: Deloitte, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Arabella Advisors, the World Economic Forum, Business Executive Education, Stanford’s Design School, Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy, and the Fetzer Institute. Other clients and speaking engagements include The White House, Clinton Global Initiative University, and the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Born and raised in a diverse community where it was "cool" to try out for the high school's race relations dialogue group, Amy brings 20 years of experience in the diversity and inclusion field to enable people and organizations to contribute, thrive, and grow. Prior to launching InclusionVentures, Amy served as Executive Director of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, increasing earned revenue from 6% to 33% and quadrupling the number of organizations served. She founded PULSE, a neuroscience-based leadership retreat to catalyze inclusive talent and establish an employer-ready pipeline to infuse the same principles into organization culture. At ICF International, Amy developed and delivered leadership, inclusion, and manager trainings for federal agencies including NASA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

A Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, Amy earned an M.S. in Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz School, and founded the Center for Race Relations at Duke University. She has won numerous awards and is frequently cited for her impact on diversity and inclusion. She is a recipient of USA Network’s Characters Unite Award, Top 99 Under 33 Foreign Policy Leaders, Facing History’s Upstander Award, and the American Express NGen Leadership Fellowship. Amy is cited in Bloomberg Businessweek, The Washington Post, Barrett Seaman’s Binge: What Your College Student Won’t Tell You, and Robert Thompson’s Beyond Reason and Tolerance: The Promise and Practice of Higher Education. Amy practices tai chi and has sung back up for Aretha Franklin. From Shaker Heights, Ohio, Amy lives in San Francisco and serves on the boards of Coro National, The Harwood Institute, and Operation Understanding DC. She is certified in administering the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the DiSC profile.

InclusionVentures has a talented and diverse team with deep experience working across sectors.