Our Experts
Shareem Annan
Shareem is our lead DEI consultant. She currently serves as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Elevance Health. In this role, she has responsibilities for building, embedding, and integrating DEI into talent and HR systems, while driving efforts to develop and execute a strategy to attract, engage, develop, and retain a diverse workforce.
Shareem is a graduate of Howard University and earned her MSA in Human Resources from Central Michigan University. She is a Certified Cultural Diversity & Inclusion Professional and serves on several boards including the Director of Workforce Development and Diversity for the Society of Human Resources-Dulles, VA Chapter, and the Human Resources Advisory Committee for Fairfax County, Virginia Public Schools.
Kofi Annan
Kofi is an award-winning racial justice activist and two-time award-winning author. He previously served two terms as the president of the Fairfax County, Virginia National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which was awarded the NAACP’s Thalheimer Award for being the best branch in the country under his administration. He is now dedicated to training and consulting leaders interested in doing the challenging but meaningful racial justice work.
His memoir Bull in a China Shop: Evolution of a Racial Justice Activist won the 2022 Bookfest first place award in the category of Government Corruption and politics. Kofi is a decorated war veteran who served honorablyin Iraq and Afghanistan. He also had a distinguished career as an intelligence analyst in the federal government.