Fernando Serpa

Fernando Serpa brings first hand, practical corporate experience to his workplace presentations having been the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for several global, high-tech companies as well as the nation's second largest retailer. Fernando has a wealth of practical experience on developing, implementing and managing award winning Inclusion and Diversity strategies that impact an organization's bottom line.

He has presented inclusion and diversity training in Japan, Germany, Ireland, Australia, France and Singapore. His areas of expertise include: Organizational Assessments, Worldwide Diversity Recruiting and Engagement, Employee Network Groups, Multicultural Diversity Branding and Global diversity strategies that are country and region specific. He developed an inclusion and diversity engagement strategy and training that has rolled out to over 150K associates in one company around the country.

He specializes in engaging stakeholders to view inclusion and diversity as not just an HR program but as a business imperative that drives bottom line results and to offer actual real-world scenarios of how to fully integrate inclusion and diversity into all of aspects of an organization's business.

• JD from George Washington University Law School
• 8 years Corporate Diversity experience.
• 7 years Government experience (U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, The White House.)
• Achieved 15 Best Place to Work Awards around the world.
• Transformed one company's Human Rights Campaign Equality Index score from 50% to 100% in one year.