Inclusion. Purpose. Action.

Blair Taylor brings more than 25 years of organizational leadership experience to his role as a Partner at Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC), where he is part of the firm’s People & Organization Practice and focused on driving the Work Force of the Future platform for clients. His experience spans the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Having served as Chief Executive Officer of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance (MBKA), a signature initiative launched by then President Obama, Taylor led one of the nation’s most dynamic and ambitious initiatives, engaging leading corporations, nonprofits and Mayors to advance low income communities and populations.

Prior to leading MBKA, Taylor served as a member of the Starbucks Coffee Company’s senior leadership team, where he led the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR), diversity & inclusion (D&I), community affairs and government affairs functions, while also serving as Executive Vice President (EVP) of Starbucks Global Human Resources (HR) with a staff of more than 500 employees.

Taylor’s background also includes seven years as President and CEO of the Los Angeles Urban League and four years as the Executive Vice President of College Summit, one of the nation’s largest college access initiatives. His private sector experience also includes four years as the President and CEO of a private retail franchising company focused on low income communities in the U.S. and the Caribbean, and more than eight years of leadership with PepsiCo and IBM, where he held various brand marketing, strategy and executive sales positions.

Taylor has been recognized by Fast Company Magazine as one of the nation’s most creative senior executives. He was also named a Top 50 executive innovator by PR Week, and a a Top 50 US CEO by the Non Profit Times. In 2011, Taylor was named one of the UCLA Anderson Graduate School’s Top 100 graduates. Taylor holds a BA in economics from Amherst College, where he also served a six-year term as a Trustee, and an M.B.A. in marketing and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management.

Blair’s expertise includes:

• Talent acquisition and development 
• Volunteerism strategy
• Urban marketing
• Tying brands to governments and nonprofits
• Diversity, inclusion, engagement, and upskilling
• Succession planning
• Corporate social responsibility (CSR)

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Sabah is a managing director in PwC’s Workforce of the Future Practice. She works with clients across numerous industries including oil & gas, government, healthcare, and education. With almost 20 years of management consulting experience, she has proven her ability to effectively direct the formulation and execution of new business strategies and reengineering projects to achieve organizational imperatives.

Prior to joining PwC, Sabah led Point B Inc.’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion teams, where she guided the inception of the company’s EDI efforts from the ground up, implementing transformational culture change. She has served on the Women’s Energy Network Board and is currently a board member for City Year Denver, an organization that strives to improve high school graduation rates in Denver’s most at risk schools. Sabah earned a BA in economics from Colorado College.

Sabah’s expertise includes:

• D&I program inception, change management and communications
• D&I strategy development and assessment
• D&I training
• Talent acquisition
• Culture change and employee engagement.

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Joshua is a manager in PwC’s People and Organization practice, as part of the Workforce of the Future platform.

Joshua managed PwC’s ERGs in the Bay Area & Northwest Market, overseeing more than 60 leaders and 30 executive sponsors to help drive PwC’s D&I strategy. He has deployed his deep relationships in the D&I community to develop opportunities for PwC to partner with clients and assist the CEO Action team.

Joshua sits on the Board of Directors of Disability Rights Washington and Compass Housing Alliance. He is also a founding board member of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Community of Practice in Seattle. Previously, Joshua also sat on the Executive Board of Out & Equal. He earned a BA in accounting from Seattle Pacific University and a MA in taxation from the University of Washington.

Joshua’s expertise includes:

• Diversity and inclusion
• Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• Employee engagement and experience
• Community engagement
• Organizational culture and behavior change
• Project management

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Luna Corbetta is a Partner in People & Organization Workforce of the Future for the New York Metro and Mexico markets. Luna has more than 15 years of experience driving C-level agenda to help multinationals thrive. Luna is a global strategist with a growth mindset, passionate about connecting people and organizations to their core purpose. She is an expert in strategy and transformation, known for turning a vision into execution and instilling customer-centricity and employee wellbeing. At Mercer, Luna was Global Rising Professionals BRG Lead, while leading the client executive D&I network for Latin America. In addition to her consulting experience with Deloitte and Mercer, Luna has held global and regional positions as an in-house consultant leader and business executive in both Credit Suisse and Bayer. She also serves as an executive coach focused on career growth, D&I, and wellbeing.

Luna’s expertise Includes:

• Culture change
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Business, HR and organizational transformation
• Employee experience
• People strategy & Analytics
• Corporate M&A
• Innovation: design thinking, agility and systemic innovation
• Governance and organizational effectiveness, design and sizing

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Ann is a Partner in PwC’s People & Organization practice, as part of the Workforce of the Future platform. She has worked for over 25 years in the diversity, equity, and inclusion field across industries.  Prior to joining PwC, Ann was the Digital Learning Transformation Leader (CLO) for GE Digital. While with GE Digital, Ann was responsible for the design, curation, and delivery of experimental immersive, classroom, and collaborative learning experiences hosted globally across multiple technology platforms and delivery modalities. She was also previously the Global Business Learning Leader (CLO) at GE Aviation responsible for the leadership learning and organizational development strategies for the Aviation business. She partnered with business, functional, and HR leaders on the implementation of key cultural enablement initiatives, organizational change and transformation efforts, as well as Senior Executive development processes for the business. In both roles, Ann was an Executive with the GE Crotonville organization.

Ann earned her Executive Coaching credential from the Hudson Institute of Coaching, She  holds a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems from the Fielding Graduate University and two Masters degrees—one in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University and the other in Religious Leadership from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.

Ann’s expertise includes

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Organizational Transformation
• Digital Transformation and Upskilling
• Global Mindset
• Learning as Consumer Experience
• Leadership Development and Executive Coaching
• Group & Team Dynamics
• Organizational Culture and Cross-cultural Communication

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Emily Leslie is a manager in PwC’s Workforce of the Future Practice. She is a seasoned executive coach with over 11 years of experience in leadership development and culture transformation. She brings subject matter expertise in the areas of organizational and leadership development, organizational transformation, culture change, psychology, and team dynamics. Emily has a proven track record of coaching leaders and teams, and helping them elevate their business impact by strengthening communication, thinking agility, and trust. Her extensive knowledge of psychology, organizational behavior, and professional services allow her to assist companies in developing and executing programs that drive impact within their organizations.

Emily is a Licensed Master Social Worker, PCC credentialed executive coach, and an HBDI^® practitioner. Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from The George Washington University, a Master of Social Work from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, and a professional coach certification from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching.

Emily’s expertise includes:

• Executive and systems coaching
• Culture and behavior change
• Psychology and Human Behavior
• Change management & communication
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Leadership workshop delivery
• Leadership alignment

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Candice McCrae is a senior manager in PwC’s People and Organization practice, as part of the Workforce of the Future platform. Candice is a licensed CPA and started her career at PwC providing tax services to clients in the real estate and investment management sectors of the financial services industry. She has over 8 years of experience with US tax compliance for domestic and offshore private equity funds and their portfolio companies.

In conjunction with her tax engagements, Candice has worked closely with PwC’s Office of Diversity developing and leading Diversity & Inclusion efforts in our New York and Houston offices respectively.  

Candice’s expertise includes:

• Project management
• Employee experience/engagement
• Diversity & Inclusion

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India is a senior associate in PwC’s People and Organization practice, as part of the Workforce of the Future platform. She specializes in helping clients develop and implement comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion (D&I) strategies and programs.

Prior to joining PwC, India worked at Jones Diversity, a boutique D&I consulting firm serving clients across the United States. While there, she contributed to all stages of D&I engagements, including full assessments, recommendations, and implementation design.

India earned a BA in human evolutionary biology from Harvard University.

India’s expertise includes:

• Diversity, equity and inclusion
• Community engagement
• Research and benchmarking
• Employee experience

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Gabrielle Kuey is a manager in PwC's People & Organization practice as part of the Workforce of the Future Platform specializing in employee experience and inclusive culture design.

Gabrielle is a practitioner of Strategy& Katchezbach Innovation Center for organizational culture, leadership and teaming where she has focuses on identifying and upskilling leadership on inclusive behaviors that match the corporation's strategic aspirations.

She is driven by curating individual experiences that demonstrate a focus in the care and well-being of all employees. Gabrielle has extensive background in cross-culture behaviors and communications where she has driven strategies from a global scale in all aspects of branding, and employee engagement. Gabrielle has an B.A. in International Business and MBA from University Maryland. In 2017, she was recognized by Poets & Quants as 'Best & Brightest MBAs' for her extensive work in the community and academic achievements.

Gabrielle's expertise includes:

• Inclusive culture architecture
• Leadership alignment
• Inclusive learning design
• Human centered design
• Change management & communications
• Customer & employee experience

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Theia is a director in PwC’s Workforce of the Future Practice, where she focuses on the intersection of socio-cultural innovation, gender equity, and entrepreneurial advancement for underutilized communities.

Theia has more than a decade of executive-level equity and inclusion efforts in the Fortune 100 landscape — including managing communications campaigns and public affairs initiatives with the Billion Dollar Roundtable, designed to generate increased business development opportunities for minority and women entrepreneurs. Before coming to PwC, she also founded and led the nation’s first city-funded business incubator for Atlanta ventures that are 100% women-owned and women-led.

Theia works on a variety of community-facing initiatives aimed at amplifying socio-cultural advancement — including Atlanta’s Women Go Red, the advisory council for Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE), and the advisory board of Startup Runway. She has earned recognition as an Inc. Magazine “Inspiring Woman to Watch”, as part of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40,” and as “One of 13 Successful Spelman Alumnae to Watch.” Theia is a graduate of Spelman College and certified in business incubation management by the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA).

Theia’s expertise includes:

• Inclusive innovation
• Socio-cultural equity 
• Entrepreneurship and startup ecosystems
• Community awareness and engagement
• Job-creation and upskilling strategies

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Ben Tarshis is a senior manager in PwC's People & Organization practice as part of the Workforce of the Future Platform. Ben works with leaders to reimagine what is possible for their current and future people: new ways of working, strengthened cultures, and innovative experiences that help people thrive and businesses to perform. Ben has been tasked with designing leading-edge human capital services, executing leaders’ visions, building bridges to the broader organization and solving client’s most important problems.

Through this work Ben has developed a reputation as a design and innovation expert, a leader who is comfortable navigating ambiguous situations and someone who has curiosity to solve complex and strategic problems. Prior to PwC, Ben spent time in the non-profit space, both with Americorps and the Center for Creative Leadership. Ben holds a BA from Tufts University and an MBA from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.

Ben’s expertise includes:

• Employee experience
• Leadership development & top team effectiveness
• Culture and behavior change
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Strategic design thinking

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Satannia Williams is a director in PwC’s People & Organization practice in the Workforce of the Future platform with over 20 years consulting experience. Satannia is experienced in the development of learning modules, facilitation guides and ‘train the trainer’ content based on data gathering and analytics across varying organizational topics including Diversity and Inclusion. She also has numerous experiences leading executive sessions with leadership teams and facilitating learning modules to various participants and management teams both in-person and virtually.

She has significant experience in optimizing financial and operational controls in the areas of HR and payroll, supply chain management, inventory management, vendor and operational risk management.  She has led implementation and re-design of control programs and development of control frameworks both, both domestically and internationally.

While supporting her practice, she has led the development of the Diversity affinity group strategy in the market and serves as Co Advisory to our Black Affinity group within the market.  She sits on the Board of the Hyde Park Art Center, is a graduate of Howard University where she received her Bachelors of Business Administration - Accounting and is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Satannia’s expertise includes:

• Diversity and inclusion
• Learning and development
• Controls optimization
• Risk management
• Process re-design
• Project management

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