Dr. Darnisa Amante-Jackson

Dr. Darnisa Amante-Jackson is an educational and racial equity strategist that is deeply committed to the studies of culture; innovation; equity and adult development. Since earning her master’s degree in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Brandeis University, and her doctorate from Harvard’s Educational Leadership Doctorate (Ed.L.D.), Dr. Amante-Jackson has honed her knowledge to transform organizations, nonprofits and schools on issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Dr. Amante-Jackson currently serves as the President/Founder of The Disruptive Equity Education Project (DEEP) and DCCP (DEEP Corporate Consulting Partners) where she supports superintendents, teachers, principals, non profit leaders, corporations, commercial real estate and boards to achieve equitable culture and to systematically dismantle oppression.

Additionally, Dr. Amante-Jackson serves at the Tri-Chair to the RIDES Project, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. With RIDES, Dr. Amante-Jackson supports systemic and school based cultural change and coaching for districts, nationally.

Dr. Nicole Christian-Brathwaite

Dr. Nicole Christian-Brathwaite, MD is a Board Certified Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist. She completed Psychiatry training at Massachusetts General and Mclean Hospitals. She is Founder and CEO of Well Minds Psychiatry and Consulting Company, PLLC. She is Senior Vice President and Medical Director for Scheduled Services and Inpathy at Regroup + Insight, the leading and largest telepsychiatry service provider in the US. She is a nationally recognized expert on trauma, the impact of racism on mental health, developing trauma informed schools and organizations, implicit bias, Post-Partum Mental Health, and mental health in communities of color.

Dr. Candice A. Crawford-Zakian

Candice A. Crawford-Zakian, Psy.D. is a psychoanalytically oriented consulting psychologist and executive coach with expertise in the convergence of leadership, unconscious group dynamics and anti-racist practices. Her practice is based in interdisciplinary methods, drawing from principles of psychology, design thinking, and the creative arts. She specializes in creating impactful coaching and experiential learning programs that equip leaders with the cognitive agility, creativity, socio-cultural awareness, and self-awareness necessary to build and lead healthy, innovative, diverse organizations.

Candice has worked with a wide variety of domestic and international clients. She is also Principle Owner and Founder of Human Studio, LLC., a boutique leadership development consultancy. She is a leadership consultant at INSEAD graduate business school in France where she coaches global executives on the impact of unconscious group dynamics on leadership. Candice also partners with other consultancies; she is an Affiliate Consultant with Konu, a boutique consultancy specializing in Adaptive Leadership and Immunity to Change; and a Consultant with Subculture, a firm founded by former senior IDEO and Innosight consultants specializing in design thinking and innovation.

In addition to her executive coaching and consulting portfolio, Candice is an Adjunct Lecturer on Leadership at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also an Executive Coach to senior leaders in the Doctorate of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) program. Candice holds a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology from George Washington University, and completed her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School. 

Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi is the author of the highly acclaimed debut novel Homegoing and a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2016 "5 Under 35" Award. Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. Her second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, was an instant bestseller. She lives in Brooklyn.

Rudhir Krishtel

Rudhir Krishtel is an executive coach and facilitator focusing on workplace wellness and intensity. Rudhir coaches clients and hosts workshops to identify the issues that hold people back from advancing in their careers with clarity and fulfilment. Rudhir specializes in creating the space for having difficult conversations and growth at the intersection of Leadership, Well-Being and DEI issues. His focus on corporate healing provides tools for those affected by the most challenging aspects of their work. Through work with groups and individuals, Rudhir leads his team to transform the workplace for professionals. Prior to becoming an executive coach and consultant, Rudhir practiced law for 15 years as a patent litigation partner at a national law firm, and then as senior counsel at Apple. His lawyer days led him to train as a teacher for yoga and mindfulness meditation, and as a Professional Certified Coach to serve as a much-needed support for the professional community.

Dr. Tim O’Brien

Dr. Tim O’Brien is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is Faculty Chair of the Leadership for the 21st Century program (L21). Tim also teaches two degree courses: Exercising Leadership: The Politics of Change and Developing People: Individual & Systemic Capacity Building.

Tim’s research interests focus on the complex challenges people hope to address, the understanding they bring, and the meaning-making they need to address those challenges. This lens on leadership development emphasizes self, group and organizational awareness over content and skills. How to develop and cultivate that self-awareness is the primary concern of Tim’s research. His teaching methods are experiential, collaborative and reflective in nature and help participants develop the insight and inquiry they need to meet the demands of the challenges they face.

Before his appointment at HKS, Tim was a leadership consultant for INSEAD Business School's Management Acceleration Program and faculty for the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Programs in Professional Education.

Tim holds a B.S. from NYU and an Ed.M and Ed.D from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Human Development and Education. He is a member of The Academy of Management and The A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. 

Dr. Kirsti Samuels

Kirsti has supported the Broad institute for 3 years developing Adaptive Leadership and Management training. She is adjunct faculty at Columbia University where she teaches Leadership and Management in Moments of Adversity and Opportunity to Masters Students, and is an experienced mediator, facilitator and coach. She brings over 15 years of experience providing peace meditation in highly divided societies (divided by race, tribe, or religious beliefs) and leadership support to countries and companies seeking innovative approaches to complex problems. She has worked with executive teams, senior country leadership, and armed rebel groups. Clients range from the President of the Comoros Islands, the leadership of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the US Department of State, the Clinton Global Initiative, the United Nations, the World Bank, to the American Hospital Association, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and fortune 500 companies.

Kirsti holds a Doctorate in Law from Oxford University, a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Bachelor of Science and Law from Sydney University. She undertook her mediation training with the Swiss Government and studied Coaching at NYU. She is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Adaptive Leadership Network and a founding Board member of the Harlem Wellness Center.

Glenn E. Singleton

Glenn Singleton has devoted over thirty years to constructing racial equity worldwide and developing leaders to do the same. Author, thought leader, and strategist, he is the creator of Courageous ConversationTM a protocol and framework for sustained, deepened dialogue, and Beyond DiversityTM, the curriculum that has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to use it. Glenn is the Founder and President of Pacific Educational Group, Inc. (PEG), an agency that guides leadership development in education, government, corporation, law enforcement, and community organizing. He is the award winning author of Courageous Conversations About Race; A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools, Second Edition; and of MORE Courageous Conversations About Race.

Glenn has consulted executives at Wieden + Kennedy (W+K) Advertising, Google, Amazon, Procter & Gamble, the New York Department of Education, the New Zealand Ministry of Education,the Stavros Niarchos, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundations. Along with W+K, he received the 2017 Most Valuable Partnership (MVP) Award by AdColor. He is the recipient of the George A. Coleman Excellence in Equity Award by the Connecticut State Education Resource Center. Cited in the June 2018 edition of the Hollywood Reporter for his work with 21st Century Fox Animation, most recently, Glenn was awarded the AdWeek/AdColor 2020 Champion Award, and the 2020 National Speech and Debate Association Communicator of the Year Award. In 1995, Glenn founded the Foundation for A College Education and continues to serve on its Board of Advisors. He is also the founder and Board Chair of the Courageous Conversation Global Foundation, which develops partnerships to promote racial justice, interracial understanding and human healing worldwide.

Glenn has trained law enforcement leaders with the U.S. Embassy in Western Australia, and established the Courageous Conversation South Pacific Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. For eight years, he served as an adjunct professor of educational leadership at San Jose State University. Glenn has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University and has instructed faculty, students and administrators at the University of Minnesota, New York University School of Medicine, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University, Glenn Singleton is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and 100 Black Men. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.