ROBERT D. AUSTIN is a professor of information systems at Ivey Business School and a coauthor of The Adventures of an IT Leader (Harvard Business Review Press, 2016).
KRISTIN BEHFAR is an associate professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
JEANNE BRETT is the DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations and the director of the Dispute Resolution Research Center at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois.
CATHY BROWN is a policy and research manager at Divinity Council Australia. Cathy has an undergraduate degree in Communications and a Master’s in Social Inquiry from the University of Technology in Sydney with her thesis exploring issues for gay and lesbian seniors as they age.
NANCY M. CARTER is the senior vice president of research at Catalyst, a New York–based nonprofit that works with businesses to expand opportunities for women. She is also a visiting scholar at Insead.
FRANK DOBBIN is a professor of sociology at Harvard University.
ROBIN J. ELY is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Gender Initiative.
SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT is the founder and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation and the founder of Hewlett Consulting Partners LLC.
HERMINIA IBARRA is a professor of organizational behavior and the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning at Insead. She is the author of Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015).
PAUL IRVING is chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, the chairman of the board of Encore.org, and a distinguished scholar in residence at the University of Southern California, Davis School of Gerontology.
ALEXANDRA KALEV is an associate professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University.
MARY C. KERN is an associate professor at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York.
JANE O’LEARY holds a PhD in Management and is a research director of Diversity Council Australia. Jane’s research has appeared in the Journal of Organizational Behavior and International Journal of Human Resource Management.
CAROLYN BUCK LUCE is the executive in residence at the Center for Talent Innovation and senior managing director at Hewlett Consulting Partners. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of International and Public Affairs and was previously the Global Pharmaceutical Sector Leader and Ernst & Young LLP.
GARY P. PISANO is the Harry E. Figgie Professor of Business Administration and the senior associate dean of faculty at Harvard Business School. He is the author of Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation (Public Affairs, 2019).
CHRISTINE SILVA is a director of research at Catalyst.
DAVID A. THOMAS is the president of Morehouse College.
CATHERINE H. TINSLEY is the Raffini Family Professor of Management at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the faculty director of the Georgetown University Women’s Leadership Institute.
RAYMOND TRAU holds a PhD in Management and is a lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor) at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Raymond’s research has appeared in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management, and British Journal of Management.
CORNEL WEST is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and professor, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
JOAN C. WILLIAMS is a Distinguished Professor of Law and the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at University of California Hastings College of the Law.
MAXINE WILLIAMS is Facebook’s global director of diversity.