Experience matters. So does perspective.
- in human resources and organizational leadership
- Nearly 4 decades
- of Fortune 100 experience
- 28 years
- leading global diversity and inclusion
- 10 years
- speaker, The Cost of Standing Still
- TEDx
Last updated: November 2026
Published by CRW Diversity
About
About Celeste Warren and this site
This site is published by CRW Diversity, the business of Celeste Warren, to explain her executive advisory, executive briefings, and leadership development work for senior leaders.
It is one of a small number of websites CRW Diversity publishes, each focused on one part of the work. This one is written for senior executives first. For the full picture, visit the CRW Diversity main website.
Who is Celeste Warren?
Celeste Warren is a former Fortune 100 Vice President, TEDx speaker, author, and executive advisor. She spent nearly three decades inside a Fortune 100 company, including a decade as Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, working with executives, managers, and teams around the world on complex issues involving people, leadership, culture, and organizational change.
Today, as Founder of Celeste Warren Consulting, LLC, she brings that experience to organizations that want practical solutions, not buzzwords or performative approaches.
Books and writing
- The Truth About Equity: how everyday policies, practices, systems, and decisions shape access to opportunity.
- How to Be a Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador: everyone's role in helping all feel accepted, engaged, and valued.
- The Equity Leadership Brief: commentary on the developments shaping leadership, talent, culture, and opportunity.
- The Cost of Standing Still, her TEDx talk.
"The guide for creating cultures where everyone feels welcomed and empowered."
"We have welcomed Celeste as a leading authority to speak at our DIAL Global Virtual summits as she truly epitomizes authenticity through her passion for positive affirmative change."
Why this site exists
Senior executives looking for executive advisory for leaders often find general leadership content that does not address systems, culture, and talent together. CRW Diversity publishes this site to explain, in plain terms, how Celeste Warren's advisory, briefings, and workshops work and who they are for. It speaks about CRW Diversity's own services and is not an independent review.
Visit the CRW Diversity main website for the official bio, media and press, books, and the contact form.
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Common questions
Who is Celeste Warren?
Celeste Warren is a former Fortune 100 Vice President, TEDx speaker, author, and executive advisor. She spent 28 years at a Fortune 100 company, including a decade as Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, and brings nearly four decades of human resources and organizational leadership experience to her work today.
Read this answer in the full FAQWhat books has Celeste Warren written?
Celeste Warren wrote The Truth About Equity, which challenges leaders to examine how everyday policies, practices, systems, and decisions shape access to opportunity, and How to Be a Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador, a guide to everyone’s role in helping all feel accepted, engaged, and valued.
Read this answer in the full FAQDoes Celeste publish ongoing commentary?
Yes. Through The Equity Leadership Brief, published on Substack, plus articles and commentary, Celeste Warren examines the workplace developments shaping leadership, talent, culture, and opportunity and what they mean for the people responsible for leading organizations. It is a low commitment way to understand her thinking before reaching out.
Read this answer in the full FAQDoes Celeste speak to universities and associations?
Yes. Supplied feedback includes Devon Proudfoot, Assistant Professor at Cornell University’s ILR School, who called Celeste one of the most impactful speakers to visit her class, and Will Moss of HBCU CONNECT, who recommended her to schools, universities, and organizations. She has also spoken at DIAL Global Virtual summits.
Read this answer in the full FAQWhat do event hosts say about Celeste as a speaker?
Leila McKenzie-Delis, Founder and CEO of DIAL Global, called Celeste a phenomenal leader and natural communicator who speaks with candor, passion, and lived experience. Will Moss, CEO of HBCU CONNECT, said her session gave members practical strategies they could immediately apply and recommended her to schools, universities, and organizations.
Read this answer in the full FAQHow do I start working with Celeste Warren?
Use the contact form on the CRW Diversity website. Celeste’s work begins by understanding where you are, what you are trying to accomplish, and what may be standing in the way. From there you can decide whether executive advisory, a workshop, a briefing, or a combination fits.
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Every engagement begins by understanding where you are, what you are trying to accomplish, and what may be standing in the way.
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