Antoinetta helps audiences cultivate equitable and inclusive spaces that are celebrated, not tolerated.

Antoinetta Mosley is the CEO and Principal Leader at I Follow the Leader LLC, a strategic consulting firm specializing in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategy, initiatives, and education. As a Certified Diversity Professional (CDP), Antoinetta has worked on a range of projects for organizations of all sizes, including small to global nonprofits as well as Fortune 500 companies, and travels the country as a sought-after speaker on DEI and belonging in the workplace.

Why Antoinetta? 

Topics centering on diversity, equity and inclusion can be difficult or uncomfortable for some audiences. But when Antoinetta gets on the stage or into a breakout session, she brings with her an approachable yet vibrant energy that is immediately disarming. She welcomes the audience into the DEI conversation, helps them find themselves within it and then offers clear-cut solutions to move forward. Antoinetta’s impact has been praised by so many because her expertise is always accompanied by genuine compassion. 

*CULTIVATE COURAGE: HOW COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS BUILD CULTURES PEOPLE CELEBRATE, NOT TOLERATE

Think your culture is perfect and your employees are all happy and content? It might be time to take a second look. Gathered over the past six years of doing cultural audits, Antoinetta has seen just how different leadership’s understanding of their organizational culture can be from the reality of employees’ experiences. By facilitating courageous conversations with employees and their leadership, Antoinetta led many of those same organizations forward. Sharing her valuable findings from that work in this talk, Antoinetta is encouraging more organizations to create equitable and inclusive spaces for these courageous conversations with the goal of moving them from courageous to commonplace.

Audiences will learn:  

• Why courage is an action and choice that has to be cultivated and celebrated and how teams, leaders and organizations can embrace it 
• The 7 Attributes of Courage
• How courageous conversations can move your organization forward by hearing success stories 
• Why we need equitable and inclusive spaces to have effective, courageous conversations