Shane serves as the executive leader advancing Baker Tilly’s diversity, inclusion, belonging and societal impact, ensuring it is embedded in all elements of the business operations. Shane has extensive experience in the breadth of diversity, inclusion and belonging execution and strategy activities: executive leadership development and coaching, dialogue facilitation, mediation, strategy development, employee resource groups and DIB learning.
- Chairs Baker Tilly’s DIBS National Steering Committee
- Co-chairs ESG subcommittee on social dimensions of ESG
- Led the inclusion and engagement strategy for a major technology company with a reach of 900,000 worldwide
- Delivered hundreds of workshops, trainings and keynotes to clients spanning various industries including tech, financial services, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, media and entertainment as a DEI consultant garnering over half a million dollars in business
- Developed DEI learnings ranging from foundational to more advanced for audiences spanning hourly workers to executives
- Insights published in Business Insider, Thomson Reuters Institute and Washington Business Journal
- Environmental, social and governance specialists
- Belong Panel for Baker International’s People Strategy, chair
- Thomson Reuters Institute Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Board, member
- Maryland Montgomery County Racial Equity and Social Justice Advisory Committee, vice chair
- Nominated and selected for the Washington Business Journal’s 2022 40 under 40
- Grassroots Fund (formerly New England Grassroots Environment Fund), board member (2015 – 2020), treasurer (2017 – 2020)
- Racial Equity and Social Justice Advisory Committee for Montgomery County, Maryland, chair
- Class Action, board member (2015 – 2020), board president (2019 – 2020)
- Center for Mediation and Collaboration Rhode Island, board member (2014 – 2016)
- 360 Inclusive Leadership Compass, coach
- Change Leadership: Strategies for Organizational Growth in a Dynamic World (NYU)
- Featured in "Social class impacts workplace culture. Here’s what companies can do", Fast Company, March 11, 2024
- How Mid-Market Companies Can Start the DEI Conversation, author, 2023
- Featured in “How forward-thinking employers recognize social mobility as an emerging area of DEI”, Thomson Reuters Institute, July 2022
- Featured in “How to know when accounting firms need to hire full-time DEI leaders, interview”, Thomson Reuters Institute, May 2022
