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Master of Business Administration (MBA) Programs
May 20, 2022
3pm 5pm
Gregory Gym
Lanaya Irvin, MBA 08
Lanaya Irvin is a global business executive and thought leader in workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion. She spent more than a decade at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she led strategic initiatives in global equities, managed client relationships, and led multinational teams.
She currently serves as CEO of Coqual, a global think tank founded in 2004, to conduct in-depth research on issues of gender, race, ethnicity, disability, and LGBTQ identities in the workplace and to offer robust solutions for companies hoping to create a fairer corporate culture.
Previous to that, Irvin was head of business development for theSkimma millennial-focused news media company with 7 million daily subscribers.
Irvin has extensive diversity leadership experience in corporate and nonprofit organizations. Since 2013, she has co-chaired the Human Rights Campaigns Business Advisory Council.
She also sits on the board of directors for Outright Action International, an LGBTQ advocacy organization with permanent presence at the UN.
At Bank of America Merrill Lynch, she served as a co-chair of LEAD, a 35,000-member employee network dedicated to growing, attracting, and retaining female talent.
She also was a founding executive member of OPEN Finance, a consortium of LGBTQ leaders advancing inclusion across Wall Street.
In 2015, she mobilized more than 30 financial services firms to sign onto a US Supreme Court amicus brief in support of federal marriage equality.
She was named to the 2020 and 2021 HERoes Women Role Model Executives list, which showcases leaders who are driving change to increase gender diversity in the workplace, to the Yahoo Finance top 100 OUTstanding LGBT+ Executives list in 2021, and to Crains New York Businesss 2022 Notable Black Leaders List.
Irvin is a sought-after speaker for wide-ranging audiences on authenticity, race, gender, LGBTQ inclusion, and inclusive leadership in the workplace. Her thought leadership has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, The New York Times, the Financial Times, Newsweek, Business Insider, Forbes, Marketplace, Bloomberg Businessweek and CNBC.
She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California and holds an MBA from McCombs.
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