Shara Hammond

I am unconventional DEI strategist and coach who is passionate about growing inclusive practices.

Leveraging foundational strategies, research, and best practices to co-create solutions for individuals, teams, and organizations who seek to unleash potential, optimize hidden strengths, and empower sustainable behavior-change to improve performance.

Shara Hammond

I am unconventional DEI strategist and coach who is passionate about growing inclusive practices.

Values in Action

The courageous pursuit to help individuals, teams, and organizations to:

Embrace self-discovery and the opportunity to pivot

Intentionally learn and leverage similarities and difference

Empower voices to powerfully lead and influence

Co-create solutions to advance performance, potential and goals

Consciously collaborate to extend community

As a proven partnership, I have worked with clients to:

Embed philosophy of ownership and empowerment into new employee-centric learning model.

Spearhead diversity and inclusion assessment, ultimately recommending and securing buy-in to integrate these core concepts into all leadership development programming.

Partner with talent acquisition, college and university relations and external allies to build a strong pipeline of diverse, highly talented candidates.

Create the infrastructure and launched corporate-wide employee resources groups (ERGs)

Develop and aligned goals, KPIs and behavior-based measurement for high-performance and accountability

Services

Certified Diversity Equity and Inclusion Coach

My clients are ambitious leaders who are seeking to advance their leadership influence through strategy, people, and organizational systems to have an individual, team and/or organizational impact. These leaders seek to differentiate themselves and their businesses by intentionally leveraging diversity, equity, and inclusion to support sustainable organizational change. My clients are provided a space to:

- To explore their personal and professional values and goals
- Recognize, engage, and adapt to cultural similarities and differences
- Have a sounding board where they are the only or the few
- Be curious by introducing new tools and techniques
- Action plan to translate insight into everyday practice

Consulting Services - Understanding the Unique Needs of Your Organization

With over 15 years for experience in the corporate, operational, and international roles, I bring a breadth and depth of expertise spanning the full scope of human resources and corporate diversity & inclusion to my clients. Those who seek me out are looking to:

- Design an immersive learning and coaching experiences that accelerate development of a wide range of leaders
- Create and align unconventional solutions to deliver organizational results, talent development, leadership, and inclusion

Speaking Engagements

Known for her authenticity insights to engage and inspire an audience to connect to the conversation, Shara brings a balance of DEI frameworks and a practical way to call those to action. Whether it is a panel or a keynote, she brings every-day meaning and value to complex conversations.