CRW Executive AdvisoryInclusive leadership
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Inclusive leadership training from CRW Diversity helps leaders turn fair and inclusive intentions into deliberate, everyday decisions about people, information, and opportunity.
It is led by Celeste Warren, who spent 10 years leading global diversity and inclusion as Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at a Fortune 100 company, and it is grounded in her Equity in Action Model.
Inclusive leadership training teaches leaders to make decisions and build habits that let every person contribute fully. At CRW Diversity, it moves beyond awareness into practice, asking leaders to examine who has access to information and opportunity, whose talent gets advocated for, and whether outcomes match intentions.
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Celeste Warren brings her experience to organizations that want practical solutions, not buzzwords or performative approaches. Equity does not become real simply because an organization believes in it. It becomes real through the decisions leaders make every day.
Training therefore centers on real choices: who is in the meeting, who hears about the opening first, whose idea is credited, and how performance is judged.
The CRW Diversity standard
Senior leadership remains uneven. Kinkajou's Top leadership development statistics 2026 reports that 61 percent of senior managers and directors are men, and that 46 percent are white men while 15 percent are men of colour.
Accountability is also a gap: less than half of US leaders rate themselves outstanding at creating accountability, and 30 percent of managers rate their leaders that way (Gallup, 2026, n = 23,068, as reported by Leaders ADAPT).
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Procedure
Awareness of how assumptions, experiences, and organizational patterns shape decisions.
Examine who has access to information, opportunities, relationships, and resources.
Use influence so talent, ideas, and perspectives aren't overlooked.
Turn intentions into deliberate decisions, then judge them by outcomes.
From the books
In How to Be a Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador, Celeste Warren argues that many people feel they have no role in driving inclusion, but everyone does. The book is a guide to how individuals can use their abilities to create a culture where everyone can feel engaged and empowered to add value.
Kenneth Frazier, former Executive Chairman of Merck and Co., Inc., called it "the guide for creating cultures where everyone feels welcomed and empowered."
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FAQ
For senior executives
Advisory, executive briefings, and leadership workshops all begin the same way: by understanding where you are and what may be standing in the way.
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