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About this site and Celeste Warren
This site is published by CRW Diversity (Celeste Warren Consulting, LLC), the business of Celeste Warren, to help event organizers and boards learn about her keynotes, TEDx talk, media, and booking process.
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Who publishes this site, and why does it exist?
CRW Diversity publishes this site about its own founder, Celeste Warren. It is one of a small number of websites the business publishes, and it exists to give conference organizers, executive teams, and boards one clear place to review her speaking topics and book her. The main business website is crwdiversity.com.
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Who is Celeste Warren?
Celeste Warren spent nearly three decades inside a Fortune 100 company, including a decade as Vice President and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. Throughout her career, she worked with executives, managers, and teams around the world on some of the most complex issues involving people, leadership, culture, and organizational change.
Today, as founder of Celeste Warren Consulting, LLC, known as CRW Diversity, she brings that experience to organizations that want practical solutions, not buzzwords or performative approaches. She helps organizations strengthen leadership, transform workplace culture, and build systems that give people fair and equitable opportunities to contribute, grow, and succeed.
Her work examines both sides of the equation: how people lead and how organizations operate. Policies, practices, access to opportunity, leadership decisions, and unwritten norms shape workplace culture every day.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| HR and organizational leadership | Nearly 4 decades |
| Fortune 100 experience | 28 years |
| Leading global diversity and inclusion | 10 years |
| Speaking | TEDx speaker |
| Author | The Truth About Equity; How to Be a Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador |
| Former role | Fortune 100 Vice President |
Framework
The Equity in Action Model
Equity becomes real through the decisions leaders make every day. The model gives leaders a practical way to examine how their decisions, behaviors, and systems shape the experiences and opportunities of the people they lead.
Awareness
Understand how assumptions, experiences, and organizational patterns influence decisions.
Access
Examine who has access to information, opportunities, relationships, and resources.
Advocacy
Use your influence to ensure talent, ideas, and perspectives aren't overlooked.
Action
Turn awareness and good intentions into deliberate leadership decisions.
Accountability
Look beyond intentions and pay attention to outcomes.
Empowerment
Create the conditions for people to contribute, grow, and use their voices.
A free guide, 6 Practical Ways to Lead More Fairly, Intentionally and Effectively, introduces the model on crwdiversity.com.
Services
How Celeste helps organizations
Leadership and organizational development
Practical workshops and learning experiences that help leaders strengthen their effectiveness and put fair, inclusive leadership into practice, including Equity in Action for Managers.
Speaking and executive briefings
Keynotes, executive briefings, and facilitated conversations on leadership, culture, systems, and the decisions that shape people's experiences at work. See topics
New to Celeste's work? Start with the overview: DEI speaker for hire: Celeste Warren.
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All 45 questions in the FAQ- Who is Celeste Warren?
- Celeste Warren is a TEDx speaker, author, executive advisor, and former Fortune 100 Vice President who helps organizations strengthen leadership, transform workplace culture, and build fairer systems. She spent 28 years at a Fortune 100 company, including a decade as Vice President and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, and now leads Celeste Warren Consulting, LLC, known as CRW Diversity.
- What is CRW Diversity?
- CRW Diversity is the business of Celeste Warren Consulting, LLC, founded by Celeste Warren. It offers executive advisory, leadership and organizational development workshops and learning experiences, and speaking and executive briefings for organizations working through leadership, culture, talent, and organizational challenges. Its main website is crwdiversity.com.
- What experience does Celeste bring to the stage?
- Celeste brings experience from inside the room. She has nearly four decades in human resources and organizational leadership, 28 years at a Fortune 100 company, and 10 years leading global diversity and inclusion. She worked with executives, managers, and teams around the world on complex issues of people, leadership, culture, and organizational change.
- What books has Celeste Warren written?
- Celeste Warren is the author of The Truth About Equity and How to Be a Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador: Everyone's Role in Helping All Feel Accepted, Engaged, and Valued. The first examines how policies, practices, and decisions shape access to opportunity. The second shows individuals how they can help build a culture where everyone feels engaged.
- What is the Equity in Action Model?
- The Equity in Action Model is Celeste Warren's practical framework for examining how leaders' decisions, behaviors, and organizational systems shape people's experiences and opportunities. It has six elements: Awareness, Access, Advocacy, Action, Accountability, and Empowerment. A free introductory guide to the model is offered on crwdiversity.com.
- Is there a free resource from Celeste?
- Yes. A free guide, 6 Practical Ways to Lead More Fairly, Intentionally and Effectively, introduces the Equity in Action Model with key insights, reflection questions, and simple next steps for each of its six elements. It is offered on crwdiversity.com.
Planning a conference, board session, or executive offsite?
Tell Celeste about your audience, date, and goals. Speaking and press inquiries go through one contact form on her main website.