Speaker

Larry Naylor

Co-Founder Inclusive Leadership Strategies (ILS)

Larry Naylor served as an officer in the U.S. Army, participated in three combat tours and is a Bronze Star Medal recipient. After working at the U.S. Department of State with Secretary Powell and Secretary Rice, he shifted to the private sector, supervising and facilitating leadership development for a multibillion-dollar global technology company for over a decade.
Larry currently provides transformative leadership development programs, facilitates training initiatives, and consults across a range of management and leadership topics for U.S. and international corporations, federal, state and local government entities, and select non-profit organizations. He has executive certificates from Georgetown University in Leadership Coaching, Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Management and Facilitation.

Speaker

Kate Neville

Co-Founder Inclusive Leadership Strategies (ILS)

For over a decade, Kate Neville has coached leaders and high-performing professionals in global professional services firms, national associations, and prominent non-profit organizations to build skills and accomplish goals as they advance into more senior positions. She frequently facilitates candid conversations among colleagues and teams and presents on topics related to diversity and inclusive leadership.

A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law, Kate started her career at Simpson Thacher in New York before working in management consulting. Kate serves as a speaker and coach as part of Diversity Lab’s Move the Needle (MTN) initiative, co-chairs the Diversity Committee of the Women’s Bar Association of DC, and works as a Mentor Coach for the Coach Diversity Institute (CDI). She is certified as a leadership and diversity coach, facilitator, and change management practitioner and, a former New Yorker and Texan, lives in Washington, DC.

Moderator

Madelyn Sierra, MBA '84

Madelyn Sierra is an executive coach and leadership development consultant. She helps clients identify how their skills and behaviors support or hinder their business’ strategic objectives. She coaches them to develop high-performing teams, lead others effectively, manage career transitions and widen their network and sphere of influence. Her clients include executives in companies ranging from start-ups to global corporations in technology, media, financial services, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, health care, manufacturing and non-profit.

Madelyn is a Harvard MBA. She lives in Manhattan.