ADVANCING DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

SUSAN HODGKINSON

Susan Hodgkinson is author of The Dignity Mindset: A Leader’s Guide to Building Gender Equity at Work (2019), a trailblazer in personal branding and founder The Personal Brand Company. She is a leadership development expert, diversity and inclusion consultant, award-winning executive coach, and professional speaker.

Hodgkinson’s first book, The Leader’s Edge: Using Personal Branding to Drive Performance and Profit, received the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award.

She is a keynote speaker on Gender & Inclusion and Leadership Branding at National Conferences such as TOIGO Groundbreakers, and at corporate leadership events in industries ranging from financial services to biotech. She was the 2020 International Women’s Day speaker at ESMT University, Berlin, Germany.

Hodgkinson teamed up with national Diversity Expert Carol Fulp to form The Race & Gender Project in 2021.

Hodgkinson is a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, a contributing writer to Forbes, and a member of Forbes Coaches Council. Her work has most recently been featured in HR Future Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Indian Express, The Detroit Free Press, Essence Magazine, The Boston Globe, and other major electronic media and syndicated business columns. She holds her MBA from Simmons School of Management and is on the Executive Education faculty there, at Boston’s The Partnership, The Commonwealth Institute and at other business schools and Leadership Institutes.

CAROL FULP

Carol Fulp is the CEO of Fulp Diversity where she collaborates with CEOs to advance diversity in their organizations. She is co-founder of the Race & Gender Project where she further evolves inclusion and belonging in organizations. She is the author of Success Through Diversity: Why The Most Inclusive Companies Will Win.

More than 100 organizations have engaged Fulp in diversity forums around her work including Microsoft, PBS, Harvard University. She also presents a year-long forum on Inclusive Leadership at Boston College Graduate School of Business.

She previously served as CEO of The Partnership, the premier organization that develops, retains, and convenes multicultural executives and professionals.   More than 5,000 have participated in its unique leadership programming. She also held executive positions at John Hancock,  WCVB the ABC-TV Boston affiliate, and the Gillette Company.

Given her leadership in business and public service, President Barack Obama appointed her as a Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations General Assembly.

Fulp serves on the Board of Advisors for Eastern Bank as well as their Foundation. She is the Vice-Chair of the Board for the American Student Assistance Corporation.

She is a trustee of the Harvard Kennedy School Women’s Leadership Board, John Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation, Institute of Politics, Policy and History for the University of the District of Columbia as well as Vice-Chair for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is also a founding Board Member of the Massachusetts Conference for Women, the largest professional women’s conference in the country.

Fulp is the recipient of many honors including the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Bostonian Award and the Museum of African American History’s Living Legend Award. Boston Business Journal listed her as one of the “50 Most Influential Bostonians” and Boston Magazine featured her as one of the “21 Most Powerful People in Boston Business.”

She is a graduate of the University of the State of New York. She received honorary doctorate degrees from New England Law Boston, Salem State University, and Suffolk University Sawyer School of Management where she served as commencement as the speaker.