Sair Collective

Chapel Hill, NC. SAIR is a DEIB consulting firm providing assessments, training, coaching, and membership products to a variety of organizations - from the Fortune 100 to non-profits. 
Oversaw design, development, and deployment of 5 major DEIB assessments. Consulting projects included:
- Assessing the readiness of the Fortune 500 transportation sales team to embrace DEIB concepts and measuring current inclusion and belonging.  
- Analyzing cross-racial interactions at a continuing care and retirement community with 600+ primarily white residents and 400+ primarily POC care providers. 
- Assessing belonging at a regional Behavior Health Care company with 2000+ employees distributed across field sites in two states. 
- Detailing inclusion and equity opportunities at a clean energy startup with 100 remote employees. 

Led development, design, and delivery of 40+ DEIB custom trainings. SAIR developed custom hybrid training on Kajabi, Searchi, and Howspace platforms. Primary facilitator of all SAIR’s live workshops and discussions.  Subjects Included: Cisgender Sexism, Microaggressions, Fatphobia, Neurodiversity Disability and Chronic Illness, Saviorism and the Mission Driven Organization, Cultural Humble Facilitation and Mediation, Belonging During A Layoff, Classism, Gaslighting, Trauma Informed Classroom Management, Developing Inclusive Curricula. 

Developed the Belonging Circle, SAIR’s membership for DEIB practitioners, which consists of toolkits and blueprints for DEIB initiatives, executive development, ERG leadership and skills development, and ongoing management of DEIB department responsibilities. 

Responsible for SAIR’s marketing and social media, proposal development, and sales process.

Principal and Founder

Delta Gamma

Elected to serve on 7 member governing body.  Founded in 1873, Delta Gamma is a 501(c)(7) with over 150 collegiate chapters, 200 alumnae chapters and associations, and nearly 200,000 living members. Oversaw marketing communications strategy, including a strategic realignment of resources and crisis response communication plan. Change agent responsible for moving DEI efforts forward. Oversight of the 150th celebration and biannual Convention.

Council Trustee Communications

Consultant to national sorority on groundbreaking equity audit.  Advising Kirwan Institute equity audit team through contextualizing the sorority’s history and developing strategic initiatives for a more inclusive future.

Member Of The Board Of Advisors - Equity Assessment

Race Matters & White Women Discussing Racism

I am expert in moderating and facilitating challenging discussions around foundational racism and equity concepts among thousands of participants.  

Creator and moderator of Race Matters, a highly active discussion group of 800+ white members at early stages on an anti-racism journey, to learn, ask questions and explore implicit beliefs with intentionally kind and donated labor from BIPOC.   

Moderator of White Woman Discussion Racism, a 2500+ member online group. 

Facilitator of weekly discussions on racial equity and inclusion topics with 8000+ member parenting group.

Founder and Moderator

Everyone's NC

Co-founder, Everyone’s NC.  An umbrella association bringing together nonprofits, elected officials, and 20+ activist organizations representing 60,000+ members focused on aligning missions, amplifying impact, and reducing redundancies. Together with two other counders, I conceptualized group, developed buy-in from stakeholders, planned and executed first two annual meetings of group leaders, weekly calls, and online communications.

Co-Founder

Glee & Bliss

As a freelance photographer, I specialized in photographing children, families, headshots and commercial work that utilized non-professional talent. Led and managed team of two photographer/editors.

Photographer/Owner

Our Shot NC

As a founding member of Our Shot, NC PAC, I worked with high-profile candidates and legislators on various issues, including redistricting reform, voting rights, racial equity, and criminal justice policy. Our Shot NC Political Action Committee, advised by Rep. Graig Meyer, raised money for candidates in competitive 2018 state house races.

Co-founder

Weddings Magazine

Weddings Magazine was a fashion-forward, four-color glossy wedding property of Mangrum Publishing. As Editor, I was responsible for editorial planning and content creation, and I collaborated to plan and execute photoshoots. Weddings Magazine had a circulation of 20K and was published twice a year in the Research Triangle of NC.

Editor

Corey Williams Events

Owner and event Designer, primarily working with social event clients. Assisted 60+ brides and hundreds of RDU vendors from planning through execution of their event. From designing tablescapes and budgeting to managing the organizational process, we provided a level of professional service that was unique in the Raleigh/Durham market.

Event Planner

Gadgetspace, LLC

Developed marketing strategy, website, and sales support for software startup offering responsive, multi-platform device adaptation for websites.

Marketing Manager

Passionate, driven leader specializing in equity advocacy and education.  Experienced in guiding teams and individuals through strategic alignment of values with processes and incentives, and building stakeholder engagement - online and in person -  around issues of diversity and inclusion.

Corey Williams

Inclusion Stars

Inclusion Stars provides global strategy, training and communications to create an inclusive workplace that fuels effective leadership and business performance. Role play, emotional intelligence, and deploying influencers as allies are core components of our measurably successful approach.

Additionally:

 -- We offer courses on how to cultivate journalists and develop long-term, positive relationships with the press and social media.
 -- Inclusion Stars runs content writing services that distill complex issues -- tech, finance, human resources and more -- into accessible and stimulating prose.

Examples include: 

•       Provide intercultural competence workshops, inclusion strategy and harassment prevention with measurable outcomes for organizations North Carolina State University, Avast Software, Morgan Stanley, Loreal & JPMorgan Chase. 

•	Supervise 1rst Equal Chances gender equity program and mentorships for the European Society for Gynecologic Oncologists with a measurable improvement in engagement and leadership growth.

•      Create e-learning courses on media diversity for Radio Free Europe, one of the world’s largest news organizations.

•       Author interactive 473-page course book on intercultural communications for university business schools. 

•       Blog on meeting culture, productivity tools and employee engagement for Time is Ltd, a tech firm specializing in HR analytics.

•     Lead inclusive communication community safety campaign for a U.S. government federal agency. This included writing tweets for the White House. 

•    Author a 12,000-word awards entry on talent development for Novartis, which earned a top prize among thousands of competitors. 
	
•   Craft an executive summary of a data-sharing conference for the National Cancer Institute and presentation on their inclusive success stories.

•  Act as lead editor on JPMorgan Chase campaign for “Diverse Business Owners,” including Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, Disabled and Veteran clients.

Director

The New York Times

Cover Central/Eastern European social issues, travel, architecture on freelance basis. Wrote first article on the legal challenge to the Czech Republic's school segregation of Roma students.

Contributing journalist

New York University

	Teach  American undergraduates how to report, write, edit and interview as journalists working abroad. Develop student aptitude through hands-on training in the practical elements of a foreign correspondent's job. Develop student networking and research techniques suited to life outside of the USA.


* EARNED  STUDENT EVALUATIONS IN TOP 1 PERCENT AMONG MORE THAN 60 PROFESSORS.*

Professor of journalism, international reporting

	Created first student magazine for NYU abroad, The Prague Wanderer www.praguewandering.com, moderated media panels on subjects such as, "Is Russia a threat to Global Peace?" Introduced cultural immersion trips to get Americans out of the English-speaking bubble and into local homes, schools, human rights organizations and legislative offices.

Journalism program adviser           

CIEE Council on International Educational Exchange

	Teach  American undergraduates how to report, write, edit and interview as journalists working abroad. Develop student aptitude through hands-on training in the practical elements of a foreign correspondent's job. Develop student networking and research techniques suited to life outside of the USA.

* EARNED  STUDENT EVALUATIONS IN TOP 1 PERCENT AMONG MORE THAN 60 PROFESSORS.*

	Assure quality of media and communication courses by evaluating syllabi, help  professors improve their teaching and admin skills, ensure teaching objectives are met in accordance with  council's standards.

Team Leader

Media Confident

Lead consulting firm that helped organizations build long-lasting, positive relationships with journalists and social media. Substantiallyt Increased visibility of major U.S. government department projects benefitting econnonically challenged communities (Enviornmental Protection Agency,  Department of Homeland Security, National Cancer Institute) through strategic communication plans and promotional materials. Craft communications plan for JPMorgan Chase for diverse audiences and support the bank's entrepreneur education programs for targeting historically marginalized groups. Exponentially Increased awareness of bank programs for these consumers.

Founder & CEO

Allstarreports

	Launched and operated global news agency with peak revenue reaching $500,000 annually. Managed sales to dozens of editors, edited copy, recruited reporters with focus on entertainment news. Allstarreports.com. Wrote about the international philanthropic efforts of stars like Angelina Jolie and Lindsay Lohan for dozens of magazines. Exclusive reports on such pressing issues as John Mayer dumping Jennifer Aniston by text and Lady Gaga working out on the basketball court with three-inch platform heels.  Clients include Heat, OK! Magazine, Grazia, Woman's Day in Australia and New Zealand, The Sun and The Sunday Mirror.

Co-founder, Editor-in-chief

Bauer Media Group

Traveled across Europe to report on top celebrities such as Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie. Was the first journalist among the thousands competing to report on the birth of Angelina's Jolie's twins after a three-week investigation that would have exhausted Robert Muller.  Extensively covered the work of the Tomb Raider actress with the United Nations in support of refugees.

Contributing journalist for InTouch Weekly, Life & Style

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Report on  Jewish and Israeli issues, specializing in Eastern Europe, for world's largest  Jewish-focused news agency. JTA reaches 1.1 million readers through 110 newspapers, magazines. Wrote JTA's first-ever analysis of Islam in Europe.  Exposed influence of Israel on Kosovo presidential elections.

Europe correspondent

USA TODAY

	Cover Central/Eastern European social issues, travel, architecture on freelance basis. Wrote analysis of Barack Obama in Prague for Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II with Russia.

OK! Magazine

Covering celebrities worldwide! Met and interviewed Tom Cruise in Berlin.

Contributor

I increase productivity, profits and performance for individuals and organizations with one word: INCLUSION. I’m also a journalist, professor, and fundraiser. 

👏Because no one has to be one thing to make the world a better place. Isn’t that great?

I lead the consulting & training firm Inclusion Stars, which can boost your success through greater workplace inclusion. What does that mean?

Inclusive workplaces seek to measure and continuously improve:

💥equal chances for women & historically marginalized groups
💥intercultural competence
💥employee engagement 
💥accessible communication
💥harassment-free culture
💥emotionally intelligent leadership
💥team cohesion
💥dialogue to fuel innovation

For decades, I was a journalist covering social issues and business at premiere publications like NYTimes and USAToday. I saw firsthand how workplace unhappiness and autocratic leadership correlated with business failure. I also witnessed organizations' inability to develop top female talent. 

Rather than being an observer, I wanted to make an active difference. 

Following years of academic certifications and practice at top firms, I deployed strategies that guarantee positive, measurable change. 

The secret sauce? 

🌟Role Play frequently to turn theory into reality
🌟Activate influencers as allies
🌟Navigate dissent with communication that engages EVERYONE

Check out https://inclusionstars.com/ to learn more!
Media training & content creation are also part of Inclusion Stars’ portfolio.

Achievements:

🔴Created "Equal Chances" mentorship & leadership program for the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology to improve women’s career development. 

🔴Instituted e-learning diversity courses for Radio Free Europe, one of the world’s largest news platforms. 

🔴 Inclusions clients include JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, The British Council, Loreal, & North Carolina State University. 

🔴Write for New York Times, USA Today, Conde Nast Traveler, Women's E-News, Canadian Medical Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and Jerusalem Post. Interviewed prime ministers, presidents and corporate titans on foreign policy & social safety nets.

🔴Authored "Global & Intercultural Communications," a 434-page interactive book for university business schools.

🔴Led AllStarreports.com, a $5 million news agency focused on celebrity philanthropy. 

🔴Presented HRDisrupt talk: Your Harrassment Denial is Costing you Talent (https://www.disrupthrprague.com/home/disrupthr-prague-1-0/)

🔴Operate Europe’s largest Halloween charity for globally respected philanthropy, SOS Villages.

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