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Lara McLeod

Consultant

About Lara

Lara McLeod is a Global Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Business Strategist, Speaker, Educator, and Leader with 10+ years of experience helping corporations in tech and non-profit industries empower diverse teams to successfully create socially inclusive workplaces, products, and solutions that drive better business outcomes. 

A storyteller by trade, Lara started her DEI career as a lobbyist and advocate, using her personal story to pass groundbreaking federal legislation protecting sexual assault survivors’ civil rights. Since then, Lara has continued to leverage the magic of empathic storytelling to amplify underrepresented voices, foster meaningful connections, drive employee development and engagement, break barriers, and inspire corporate social action.

Lara has had the pleasure of leading DEI at several major tech companies, including Microsoft and Zillow. Her strategic approach uses organizational development and human-centered design principles to ground DEI in a sense of purpose that manifests in a company’s mission and business goals. 

Believing successful DEI work must be tied to more than a moral obligation, Lara is particularly passionate about coaching leaders and employees through their DEI “aha” and “ouch” moments to ultimately recognize that DEI is more than a series of underrepresented employee programs – it’s an operational lens that, when applied consistently across all business systems, behaviors, and decisions, will achieve the best business results.

A District of Columbia native, Lara has always cared deeply about social justice, social impact, and equity efforts. That innate passion fuels her to create innovative approaches to solving DEI business challenges. 
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