Gender + Racial Equity
Gender and racial equity: the right thing to do and the smart thing, too.
Overview
Gender and racial equity produce better decision-making, better leadership, better values and better results.
Being a values-driven organization builds loyalty to an organization and a brand, from stakeholders across the board: employees, investors, customers, funders, and member organizations.
The CLS gender and racial equity team has decades of experience leading equity initiatives in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. We help organizations of all sizes and types, with a particular passion for gender and racial equity in technology companies and in technology tools like artificial intelligence and machine learning.
For many of our advisors, equity has been the through-thread of their entire personal and professional lives. For CLS, equity is not just our vision; it’s our practice. It’s how we operate and live our values, every day.
We have the research, relationships & real-world experience that is needed to turn aspiration into reality.
Gender + Racial Equity Services
- Assessment, acceleration of current progress
- Communications, internal and external
- Conferences and events
- Design, implementation of best practices in gender equity initiative
- Mentorship
- Placement of senior executives, Board of Directors
- Public-private sector partnerships (PPP)
- Recruitment and retention
team leads
Saniye Gülser Corat leads the Gender + Racial Equity team at CLS. She served as Director of Gender Equality at UNESCO in Paris for sixteen years, retiring in 2020 and led the landmark study on the role of gender bias in artificial intelligence, I’d Blush if I Could: Closing Gender Divides in Digital Skills in Education published in March 2019 and a sequel, Artificial Intelligence and Gender Equality, published in August 2020.
Nwando Anyaoku, MD leads the Gender + Racial Equity team at CLS. Dr. Anyaoku is the Chief Health Equity Officer at Swedish Health Services, one of the largest health care systems in the U.S. She is also co-lead for Swedish’s Office of Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.