About The Guest

​Tenisha “Ava” Williams is an experienced diversity, equity, and Inclusion (DEI) consultant, speaker, and facilitator with over a decade of experience with organizational assessment, strategic planning, and equity-centered change management. Ava has led project teams focusing on identifying and addressing inequities for various leaders and executives at over 100 organizations. She is known for introducing frameworks and tools beyond conventional DEI discussions - urging audiences to imagine how their work can build an organizational culture that strives for belonging for all and deliver tangible and measurable outcomes for communities affected by structural inequities.

Ava believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not just a box to check...but instead, it's the opportunity to transform mindsets, cultivate community, and foster a culture of innovation, that in turn maximizes collective impact, promotes profitability, and increases employee retention and satisfaction. She works specifically in and exclusively for, the creation of equitable and inclusive cultures, the mitigation of opportunity gaps, the implementation of system-wide improvements, and the comprehensive management of those results.