The world needs inclusive leaders. Our mission is to help develop them.
Our Team
The Inclusive Leadership Compass team is powered by experts in DE&I, as well as leadership assessment and development, and supported by our global network of highly experienced associates.
BERNADETTE DILLON
Co-CEO
Bernadette’s work on diversity and inclusion, and inclusive leadership more specifically, has been recognized globally. Prior to co-founding the Inclusive Leadership Compass with Dr Sandy Caspi Sable, she worked at Deloitte for almost 15 years where she was a director in the Human Capital consulting practice, specializing in diversity, inclusion, and culture more broadly.
Notably, Bernadette co-created the widely referenced Six Signature Traits of Inclusive Leadership framework and associated 360 assessment tool – providing one of the first globally validated measures of inclusive leadership – and co-authored several publications during her time including:
- The diversity and inclusion revolution: eight powerful truths (2018)
- The Six Signature Traits of an Inclusive Leader (2016)
- Waiter, is that inclusion in my Soup? A new recipe to improve business performance (2012) (Providing one of the first validated measurement constructs of “Inclusion”).
Bernadette’s work on inclusive leadership has been recognized by the Australian Psychological Society (Winner, Workplace Excellence Award) and The Apollo Project in partnership with the UK Financial Times (Winner, Architects of Meritocracy award in the Organization category) and has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal among others. She is a contributing co-author to the book by Ferdman, Prime and Riggio, “Inclusive Leadership: Transforming Diverse Lives, Workplaces, and Societies”, (2020), Routledge / Taylor & Francis with Dr Sandy Caspi Sable.
Bernadette has lived and worked in both Australia and London, UK. Her motivation stems from an unwavering belief in the power of diversity and inclusion and the possibility that she can help make the world a better place.
DR SANDY CASPI SABLE
Co-CEO
Together with Bernadette Dillon, Sandy built the Inclusive Leadership Compass, and for close to 15 years has worked with market leading, global organizations to help them progress their diversity and inclusion ambitions.
Sandy is a recognized expert in the field and sought after public speaker on DE&I. Her particular expertise lies in assisting organizations to build Inclusive Leadership capability at all levels. Most recently, Sandy and Bernadette’s thought leadership featured in Inclusive Leadership: Transforming Diverse Lives, Workplaces, and Societies, Ferdman, Prime & Riggio, 2021 Routledge.
Sandy was a founding leader in Deloitte Australia’s Diversity and Inclusion consulting practice, and in addition to consulting to the firm’s clients around DE&I, she played a key role in advancing the partnership’s own inclusive leadership capability. Sandy was a member of the original working group for the Melbourne Business School’s Gender Equity Project, and has been engaged as an advisor around gender inclusive practices by leaders across the world.
Sandy’s first professional incarnation was as a commercial lawyer and mediator, but her practice as a management consultant and executive coach has consumed the last two decades of her career. She is wildly optimistic about the powers of leaders to influence change within and beyond their organizations, and is grateful to be able to work in this space.
MATT KRENTZ
Chief Advisor
Continuing on from his distinguished career as a global leader with Boston Consulting Group, Matt is a highly sought after advisor to market leading organizations in DE&I and business strategy more broadly. In addition to serving as the Chair of BCG’s Global People Team, Matt held a multitude of leadership roles across BCG, including serving on the Global Executive Committee and as Managing Partner of the Great Lakes and Canada System.
He has deep expertise in corporate / BU strategy, M&A, leadership, succession planning, team and talent development, remuneration strategy and CEO advisory. Matt continues to leverage his extensive subject matter knowledge in, and commitment to DE&I, to actively champion change across the corporate sector.
Matt holds an MBA from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s degree in arts from Yale University.
BEN-SABA HASAN
Advisor
Ben’s experience and profound dedication to DEI is renowned globally. He was the Chief Global Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Walmart Inc. from 2015-2022, where he and his team were responsible for the continued development of the healthy evolution of the company’s culture, the development of behaviors that embrace diversity and inclusion at all levels of the company and the promotion of the company’s external reputation as a great place to work. He retired in July 2022.
Ben Hasan joined Walmart in 2008, and previously served as Senior Vice President Strategic Services in Walmart Technology. Prior to his prior role at Walmart, Ben worked for 11 years at Dell Inc.
Ben holds an M.B.A. from Amber University in Dallas, Texas, a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in computer science from Temple University in Philadelphia and attended Harvard’s Advanced Management Program. Ben formally sat on the Walmart Foundation Board, Walmart 401K & Retirement Plan Committee, Board of Advisors Catalyst, Board of Trustees Ron Clark Academy, Board of Directors Thaden School and Board of Directors United Negro College Fund.
RUBEN RENDON BENAVIDES
LEAD PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR
Ruben is the ILC’s Lead Project Administrator with responsibility for ensuring the efficient and effective management of ILC assessment projects. Ruben has completed his PhD in Engineering focused on Supply Chain and Logistics, and Business Analytics. He also has a Master’s Degree in Corporate Financial Management from ESSCA, France and Hungary, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from UDEM, Mexico. Ruben is also proficient in 4 languages and has lived and worked across 3 continents.
Our extended team of experts
Lonnie Brewer
USA
360 ILC Associate
Lonnie Brewer is a dynamic and passionate entrepreneur who is quickly becoming one of the premier executive coaches and HR consultants in Silicon Valley. He has coached, consulted, and served as a trusted advisor to well over 300 clients over his 20+ year career.
Lonnie’s engagements have spanned a variety of industries and he has worked with companies from early stage entrepreneurial start-ups to large, multinational corporations, including Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Verizon, GE, and PepsiCo.
Lonnie is incredibly passionate about embracing change and helps leaders scale and transform their teams and organizations while building cultures of inclusion and diversity. He has worked as a “secret weapon” for a number of top leaders as they scale and transform their teams and organizations while making a lasting legacy and positive difference in the world and in people’s lives.
Lonnie did his Ph.D. work in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Masters at Cornell University in Human Resources Management and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Lonnie currently serves as a Board member for Hope Villages of America, Inc. and abusiness mentor to entrepreneurs with MicroMentor.
Orla Castanien
USA
360 ILC Associate
Orla is an executive coach and leadership consultant with 20 years of her own leadership experience in finance, operations and strategy both in Ireland and the US. She works with leaders at all levels to build their leadership capability, with a particular emphasis on Inclusive Leadership.
Orla’s clients include Fortune 100 tech companies, government agencies and non-profits. Orla serves clients in the US, Europe, South America and Asia. She is a speaker and panel facilitator for the DEI committee of the IFC, a division of the World Bank. Orla also coaches for the Executive MBA program at Kellogg School of Management.
Orla is a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (accredited by International Coaches Federation) and a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.
As an adoptive mom, Orla is a keen advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion. As the white, Irish-born mother of a black child, Orla has had to educate herself on the complex issues of diversity and inclusion in America and as a coach and facilitator has extended that learning to cover all aspects of DEI in the workplace. She draws from her journey to help others navigate that same complexity.
Jennifer Garcia-Alonso
USA
360 ILC Associate
Jenn Garcia-Alonso is an executive advisor with over 15 years experience in the management consulting, financial services and entrepreneurial sectors. Most recently, Jenn led the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion function globally at Boston Consulting Group, supporting the firm in advancing its progress on diversity and inclusion. In this role, Jenn also co-authored over 10 of the firm’s publications on the topic and consulted a number of the firm’s clients on their progress and practices.
Prior to this role, Jenn was a Project Leader in the People & Organization and Consumer Practice areas at BCG, co-founded a company focused on online travel for women, and worked at Merrill Lynch in the Telecommunications Investment Banking Group.
Jenn holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, a Master’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature from Middlebury College, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Alan Hocking
UK
360 ILC Associate
Alan has practised as a leadership coach for close to 30 years having trained in organisational dynamics and group facilitation with a global energy company in the early 90’s. The challenge and rewards of helping leaders pool the collective intelligence and talents of their teams to move complex issues forwards quickly led to a career in professional services with the likes of Andersen and PwC where he held the post of Head of Learning and Development for the firm’s consulting practice in the UK.
Alan continues to specialise in team and leadership coaching using a systemic lens which focuses on the quality of relationship connections and the mindset and behaviours that make teams more than the sum of their parts. His business and consulting background, combined with a warmly-challenging style, bring versatility and range to his coaching approach, always mindful that the work focuses on performance in a way that enhances inclusion.
His work with leaders runs the range from ‘unsticking’ strategic change efforts to working with the sensitive interpersonal, group, and inter-group dynamics that so often emerge from today’s need for inclusive ways of working. In this work, Alan is fully committed to role-modelling collaboration, inclusion, and relationship in his efforts to help leaders build, diverse, high-performing, inclusive teams. He works across sectors ranging from Health and Social Care to Investment Banking with clients including Barclays, BT, Ministry of Defence, National Health Service (UK), PwC, KPMG, and UBS. Alan holds a BSc. in Management from Aston Business School and an MSc. in Change Agent Skills and Strategies from the University of Surrey.
He lives in London with his French partner while his roots firmly remain in his native Cornwall where he messes about as an avid – and extremely amateur – potter.
Jane Horan
Asia
360 ILC Associate
Jane works with Fortune 100 firms, NGO’s, and academic institutions to deepen their understanding of cross-cultural leadership, unconscious bias, and inclusion. Drawing on her academic work as well as more than 25 years in-house with iconic brands such as Kraft, Disney and G.E. in the Asia Pacific Region, Jane supports leaders and their organizations to build inclusive and engaged workplaces in a culturally sensitive way.
Jane is also a highly experienced executive coach and facilitator. She currently serves as Senior Fellow with the Conference Board and facilitates the DEI and Talent Acquisition Executive member meetings for APAC. In addition, she is a Senior Researcher on gender education at Hong Kong University and has lectured at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
Jane holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Design from The Fielding Institute and an Educational Doctorate from Bristol University. Jane has lived, worked and studied in the US, China, Hong Kong, and resides in Singapore.
Carolyn Lawrence
Canada
360 ILC Associate
Carolyn has spent the last two decades focused on fixing inequities in the workforce. Her career journey began at Women of Influence, a social enterprise focused on gender equity, and continued into establishing and growing Deloitte’s Canadian DEI consulting practice. In that role, Carolyn developed strategy, programs, and implementation – and facilitated countless inclusive leadership training sessions – for clients across a range of industries. Having proven her ability to initiate transformative change, Carolyn was tapped to become the first Global DEI Leader at Deloitte, responsible for driving equity and a culture of inclusion across 50+ geographies, and 21 business units.
After close to a decade at the firm, Carolyn now leverages her wealth of experience, extensive exposure, and profound expertise – particularly in the realm of gender equity – to help leaders and organizations of all sizes address the foremost obstacles to inclusion and optimize their teams and business.
Katie O’Keefe
Australia
360 ILC Associate
Katie is a highly accomplished management consultant with deep expertise in DE&I. As a leader in Deloitte’s Human Capital Practice, followed by her term as a Partner at Grant Thornton, Katie has led large engagements building inclusive capability at some of Australasia’s leading institutions in the telecommunication, banking, FMCG and mining sectors.
Katie’s work is informed by her degrees in commerce, human resources and organizational design, and her ongoing research into high performing teams. Having held a parallel career as a professional triathlete for over a decade, Katie has mastered the ability to drive results through goal setting, collaboration, and an unrelenting quest for optimizing performance potential. She brings energy, intelligence and subject matter expertise to her executive coaching and facilitation work with organizations committed to building diverse and inclusive businesses.
Dr. Rachel-Yvonne Talton
USA
360 ILC Associate
Dr. Rachel-Yvonne Talton is a distinguished expert in leadership development, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), as well as executive coaching. With over 28 years of experience, her mission is to transform organizations into inclusive, effective, and engaged entities. Dr. Rachel is a highly coveted key-note speaker, facilitator and executive coach who works with leaders at Amazon, AWS, Pinterest, Toyota and others.
Dr. Rachel is the co-founder and CEO of Synergy Marketing Strategy and Research Inc and serves on the corporate board of directors for design firm Tori Soudan. She also serves on the boards of the Cuyahoga Community College Foundation, In Counsel with Women, Chairs the Governance Committee on the Akron Community Foundation Board, as well as JumpStart Inc. She has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Destination Cleveland, where she chaired the Marketing Committee for six years. Dr. Rachel is also a member of Chief, a co-founder and Chair of the Programming Committee of the BOW Collective, and an Advisory Board Member of the national Women Business Collaborative.
Dr. Rachel has been honored with over 50 awards, including the 2023 Trailblazer Award by Derby Diversity Week, and being named as one of the 2022 Enterprising Women of the Year. She is a published scholar and author of the #1 Amazon bestseller in Leadership, “Flourish: Have it All Without Losing Yourself.” Dr. Rachel’s work has been featured in ABC News, Fox News, and other media outlets.
Dr. Rachel holds a Doctorate in Management from Case Western Reserve University and a Diversity & Inclusion Training Certificate from Cornell University. Her commitment to excellence extends to her personal life, where her passions include spending time with family and friends, international travel, community service, and art.
James M. Talton
USA
360 ILC Associate
James M. Talton is a trailblazer in the fields of organizational effectiveness, human resource management, and inclusive leadership. James has held senior executive roles in global corporations as well as advising organizations that include AWS, FedEx, PNC Bank, Nationwide Insurance, and Lbrands. His deep experience as a leader has made him a highly sought after – and extremely impactful – executive coach.
James is the co-founder and COO of Synergy Marketing Strategy and Research Inc as well as the Board Chair of OIC of America, an organization that provides services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals globally. His civic initiatives include founding the Philadelphia OIC Homeless Shelter, which provides housing, food, training, and job placement to over 1,000 men per year. He also co-founded the Haddonfield School of Creative and Performing Arts and P.I.L.O.T. Services, Inc., a residential facility serving individuals with developmental disabilities.
James was also one of the first African American executives to report directly to the CEO at Rite Aid Corporation, where he played a significant role in Rite Aid’s growth to over 80,000 employees and $22 billion in annual revenue.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from Knoxville College and a Master of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from St. Francis University. James is a Certified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory, the 360 Inclusive Leadership Compass, and the Hogan Leadership Assessment.
Annie Marks
USA
360 ILC Associate
With over 25 years of consulting experience, Annie has advised leaders and their organizations around how to leverage the human processes that help them thrive: leadership, communication, collaboration, decision making, growth, change and learning.
She is particularly interested in helping groups and leaders function inclusively when faced with important, multi-layered decisions, complex authority structures, competing interests and interpersonal / group dynamics.
Annie has been a facilitator and trainer of ‘productive conversations’ for over 20 years, helping professionals tackle tough issues and make progress on organizational and interpersonal challenges. Central to this work is her strong belief that being inclusive and increasing diversity is critical to organizational effectiveness and to getting the best from people.
Annie has worked with for-profit and non-profit clients across a range of industries in the US and Europe. She received her MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business and her Masters in Organizational Psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College.
Ana Perea
USA
360 ILC Associate
Ana Perea is an executive advisor and organizational development consultant with over 15 years experience in the corporate and non profit sectors.
Ana has worked closely with both senior executives and emerging leaders to help them build their awareness of, and skill in driving inclusion across their organizations. Ana has particular expertise in helping leaders navigate complex interpersonal dynamics for the benefit of individuals, teams and the business as a whole.
Her clients include organizations operating in financial services, fashion, education, law, marketing, technology and design. Ana’s prior experience as the Director of Organizational Effectiveness at a luxury brand and earlier roles as a learning and development specialist inform her client engagements.
Ana holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University and is in the final stages of a doctorate at the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.
Eric Polite II
USA
360 ILC Associate
Eric Polite II is a skilled learning facilitator, performance consultant, and leadership coach with more than 20 years of experience empowering people to learn, heal, grow, and change. His deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion fuels his unique approach to helping organizations create the culture and conditions required for people to – individually and collectively – do their best work.
He specializes in helping leaders navigate today’s complex, dynamic environments to build high-performing diverse teams, design inclusive cultures, and create a tomorrow with thriving people and realized potential.
Eric received his Bachelor of Arts from Bucknell University and pursued graduate studies at the University of Maryland at College Park and Case Western Reserve University. In addition to being a 360 ILC Certified practitioner, he is a Certified Diversity Executive (CDE), accredited Six Seconds EQ Consultant, Predictive Index Certified Partner, High Performance Learning Journey® (HPLJ) designer, John Mattone Intelligent Leadership Coach, ORSC™ certified team coach, and Leadership Circle Certified Practitioner.
Hyeon-Ju Rho
USA
360 ILC Associate
Hyeon-Ju Rho supports leaders to cultivate the inner and outward-facing capacities that enable them to foster cultures of trust, belonging and innovation. In her executive coaching practice, she creates environments in which leaders can be honest, think and imagine freely, and bring their full selves – all necessary conditions for learning, growing, and creating their best work.
Hyeon-Ju has deep experience in the dynamics of change. For over 10 years prior to starting her coaching practice, she was a civil rights advocate and director of organizations advancing racial equity and human rights through policy change. As a coach and facilitator, Hyeon-Ju now helps people navigate the human dimension of change. Recent clients include The RAND Corporation; Amazon; the University of California, Berkeley; and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She co-facilitates a year-long fellowship program for leaders of color engaged in social change and has developed programs for Inclusive Leadership.
Based in Los Angeles, Hyeon-Ju holds a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation from the International Coach Federation and is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute. She obtained her BA in English Literature from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Duncan Smith
USA and Asia Pacific
360 ILC Associate
Duncan Smith is regarded internationally as one of the Asia-Pacific’s leading Diversity and Inclusion practitioners. Known for his ability to connect leadership and diversity initiatives with clients’ core business issues, he has been working as a faciltator, consultant, executive educator, and coach.with organisations, teams and individuals in Australia and globally for over 30 years.
Duncan’s work includes facilitating critical conversations in the areas of unconscious bias, gender and cultural diversity for leadership, executive, and management teams, coaching for inclusive leadership, and designing and implementing culturally effective diversity and inclusion solutions.
His clients include numerous Australian and multi-national companies in the retail, banking and finance, legal, professional services, technology and engineering, mining, oil and gas, and university, sectors, as well as federal, state, and local governments. He has been Regional Diversity Advisor for Asia-Pacific and Japan for Hewlett Packard, led the Asia-Pacific Inclusive Leadership faculty for BP, and has developed and delivered programs for Coles Group, Cadbury Schweppes, National Australia Bank, Shell, Toyota, and Westpac, among many others.
A native of Boston (USA), and based in Australia since 1991, Duncan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion from Trinity College (USA) that focused on Asian religion and culture, and a Master of Education degree from Harvard University, focusing on Organizational Behaviour and Adult Learning. Duncan has been a member of the Expert Panel for the Global Inclusion and Diversity Benchmarks since 2011, is a mentor for the Inclusion Allies Coalition, and in 2018 released the book Foundations of Diversity.
