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About Michelle Gadsden-Williams

Michelle Gadsden-Williams is an award-winning global diversity expert, activist, author, and philanthropist. She currently serves as managing director and global head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at BlackRock, where she is responsible for strengthening and accelerating the company's efforts to foster an inclusive culture. Previously, she served as the managing director and inclusion and diversity lead, North America, at Accenture. A highly sought-after diversity practitioner with more than twenty-five years of experience working in the consumer goods, pharmaceutical, professional, and financial services industries, Gadsden-Williams has held positions of global responsibility in diversity management and staffing functions for multi-national corporations such as Credit Suisse, Novartis, and Merck & Co., Inc. Her work has been cited in a number of research periodicals and trade publications.