About Us

Dani Monroe, MSOD
Founder, MV CDO Summit

Dani is a senior executive with global experience in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, strategy, and organization transformation. She connects human capital change to business, social and environmental outcomes while improving the bottom line.

Dani has spent 40 years consulting and working in numerous global corporations, large non-profits, and prestigious government agencies. She has focused her work on implementing anti-racist and anti-bias cultures, retaining talent, and connecting an organization's work to its surrounding community. She started as a consultant to AT&T and Apple and moved to internal roles for Bank of Boston, Pfizer, and Mass General Brigham, constantly optimizing the performance of those organizations.

Dani held the inaugural Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer position for Mass General Brigham, the largest private employer in MA, with 85,000 employees across 16 institutions. Reporting to the CFO and CEO, she was directly responsible for designing an anti-racism strategy that increased diversity at the Board and Hospital President levels. She created and implemented five DE&I Summits with attendance maximizing at 4,200. 

Dani’s clients in her global consulting work have included: Cardinal Health, MetLife, Novartis, Pfizer, State Street, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Houghton Mifflin, Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare, Partners HealthCare, Prudential, Experian, and the CIA.

Dani has an MS in Organization Development from Pepperdine University. Dani is the author of Untapped Talent: Unleashing the Power of the Hidden Workforce (Palgrave MacMillan) and numerous published articles.

Steering Committee Members

  • Stephanie Browne, MEd

    VP Talent Acquisition and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer
    Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

  • Rosalyn Carpenter, MBA

    Senior Vice President
    Chief Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Community Impact Officer
    CommonSpirit Health

  • Carlos Cubia

    SVP, Chief Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Sustainability Officer, BHSH Systems

  • Wendy John, MS

    Head of Global Diversity and Inclusion
    Fidelity Investments

  • Cindy Pace, EdD

    VP, Global Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer
    MetLife

  • Diana Cruz Solash

    Vice President, Talent and Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
    Vertex Pharmaceuticals

  • Andrea Taylor

    Senior Diversity Officer - Office of the President
    Boston University

  • Tiffany R. Warren

    EVP, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer
    Sony Music Group

Project Team

  • Kristin Healy, CMP

    Project Manager

  • Danielle Santos, BS

    Social Media Consultant

The lighthouse is an ancient symbol of hope and reassurance that exemplifies many of the experiences of the CDO.

It embodies our purpose to guide others through rough and unknown territory, adversity, and overwhelming challenges, to a place of welcome and safety. Like the lighthouse, the CDO often stands alone and may be the only one shining light on issues or holding space for the vision of a more just and equitable workplace and world. And, just as the lighthouse is constructed to withstand powerful storms and turbulent seas, the CDO must have strength, courage, resilience and endurance.