Meet our Experts

Alex is the Senior Director of Paradigm’s Learning Services team. Alex and her team design impactful blended learning programs, using a mix of online and live learning experiences, that help foster inclusion and ultimately drive better collaboration and performance. She also helps clients plan, manage, and execute strategies to evolve organizational cultures and coaches executives on being effective leaders.

In Alex’s role, she has led Paradigm’s work with high-growth startups, global professional services firms, and Fortune 500 companies — she has partnered with organizations including Blackstone, Snap Inc., Kearney, DocuSign, Nike, Gibson Dunn, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is passionate about evolving organizational cultures, developing leaders, and empowering professionals.

Prior to joining Paradigm, Alex spent almost a decade at Deloitte as a project manager and risk management consultant. She organized initiatives such as leadership development programs, succession planning, recruitment efforts, and designed other effective strategies and tools for helping organizations build high performing, inclusive cultures.

Angela is passionate about helping organizations empower leaders and drive meaningful change that cultivates a culture where everyone can thrive. As a Senior Consultant at Paradigm Strategy, she works with organizations to build and refine Employee Resource Group (ERG) programs, and supports ERG leaders in strengthening their leadership skills and influence. She facilitates workshops on workplace culture and allyship, and designs long-term learning journeys that equip leaders and teams with the knowledge and skills to embed and sustain inclusive strategies in their organizations. Additionally, Angela advises executive teams and committees to build and implement custom cultural strategies, multi-year roadmaps, and supportive initiatives.

Previously to Paradigm, Angela led large-scale inclusion training programs and advised global clients on leadership and culture strategies. Her expertise in scaling initiatives, managing complexity, and fostering collaboration has made her a trusted advisor in organizational change and leadership development.

Beyond consulting, Angela has extensive experience leading cross-functional teams, designing transformative programs and events, and developing sustainable partnerships in the arts and nonprofit sectors. She graduated from Rutgers University.

Carissa is a Managing Director at Paradigm and leads the Learning team. As one of Paradigm’s Co-Founders, Carissa developed Paradigm’s philosophy around evidence-based culture and inclusion work. She has led Paradigm’s work with high-growth startups, leading media agencies, top law firms, and Fortune 500 companies — she has partnered with organizations including American Express, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Gap, Etsy, Lyft, The New York Times, and Zillow Group. Carissa’s team focuses on equipping individuals – from executive teams, employee resource groups, managers, and individual contributors – with practical strategies to contribute to high-performing, inclusive organizations. Her team’s work includes expert-led training, advising on how to create effective learning journeys, and the creation of tools to sustain and deepen learning.

Before coming to Paradigm, Carissa co-founded PERTS, a research center created at Stanford University focused on the practical application of behavioral science themes like belonging and growth mindset. Carissa was named to Forbes 30 under 30 list for her innovative work on growth mindset at PERTS, where she currently serves as chair of the board.

Carissa’s work has been featured in dozens of media outlets, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal, and she has published her academic research in publications like Nature, Psychological Science, and Emotion. She has spoken at various conferences, including AtlanticLIVE, TechCrunch Disrupt, and SXSW. Carissa holds a doctorate in Psychology from Stanford University.

Diego partners with organizations to create learning experiences that foster inclusive, high-performing cultures. He helps clients design impactful learning journeys, facilitate engaging workshops, and coach internal leaders to drive meaningful change. Drawing on a background in social science, he brings a research-driven, practical approach to building workplaces where all employees can thrive.

Diego has worked with companies across industries, including Uber, Nike, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Le Creuset, and Fair Trade International. Before his current role, he led professional development initiatives at the American Sociological Association and taught sociology at Northwestern, Georgetown, and American University. He holds a doctorate in Sociology from Northwestern University.

Kae supports clients across Paradigm with Strategy and Learning work. With over 12 years of facilitation, program management, and strategic advising experience, they bring their passion for teaching and breaking down complexity to individuals and organizations at every stage of their cultural journey.

Kae supports clients across industries and regions like PepsiCo, FedEx, Snap Inc, Wildlife Conservation Network, Blueprint Medicines and more. They work closely with executives, HR and people leaders, inclusion practitioners, and committees to design custom strategies, prioritize initiatives across multi-year roadmaps, lead critical trainings on unconscious bias, inclusive leadership, and allyship, and to recommend data-driven initiatives aligned with company mission and values.

They advise on diversity, equity, and inclusion committee enablement, build comprehensive toolkits to embed values and principles into process, analyze organizational data to set strategic goals, and help to co-author change management communications. By drawing on research and best practices, paired with an open mind for each unique challenge, Kae acts as a natural extension of teams to develop the skills, tools, and momentum to set and achieve meaningful goals.

In Kae’s previous work as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Manager, and Learning & Development Manager, they consulted internally with Executives, Business Partners, Marketing Teams, and key People Leaders to incorporate inclusion and equity into programs, processes, and policies.

Kae’s connection to this work has kept them an active partner in their communities. They supported efforts to build a more diverse and inclusive tech community by serving on the Steering Committee for TechTownPDX. They coached junior roller derby, volunteered with the Portland Children’s Levy, and currently coach soccer for kids ages 3-6. Kae continues to stay grounded in their commitment to serving and creating inclusive spaces for youth.

Michelle Lopez is a powerhouse at the intersection of law, HR, and business strategy, bringing unparalleled expertise in navigating complex workplace dynamics to help organizations build fearless, high-performing, and inclusive cultures. She is a sought-after executive advisor, facilitator, and leadership coach, trusted by senior leaders across industries to align business objectives with equitable and results-driven leadership practices.

A former management defense employment lawyer and senior media executive, Michelle has a distinguished track record as a strategic architect of workplace policies, litigation risk management, and M&A integrations. As a senior executive at Paramount Media Networks, she played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s employment law practices—navigating high-stakes litigation, fostering leadership alignment, and building trust across teams during transformative business moments.

Now a Principal Consultant on the Paradigm Learning Team, Michelle leverages her legal acumen, executive experience, and deep understanding of human behavior to design and deliver high-impact, data-driven leadership programs. She partners with companies such as Disney, GoPro, Amazon Studios, Google, SilverLake, and Akin Gump to implement evidence-based strategies that drive sustainable individual and organizational performance. From executive coaching to large-scale culture change initiatives, she specializes in embedding inclusive leadership behaviors that fuel innovation, resilience, and long-term business success.

Michelle’s career began at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, where she played a critical role in shaping disability and family leave legislation—contributions that continue to impact workplaces nationwide. Her ability to bridge legal expertise, business strategy, and leadership development makes her an invaluable partner for organizations looking to future-proof their workforce, navigate change, and foster cultures where all employees thrive.

Niomi is a Senior Consultant on Paradigm Learning team. She approaches her work with a passion for driving change and growth in organizations. Drawing on her background in international business, talent acquisition and management, Niomi brings a global view point to implementing best practices for fostering inclusive cultures.

In her work at Paradigm, Niomi employs research, coaching, training and advising to support her clients. She leads some of Paradigm’s culture and inclusion assessments, strategy development, as well as behavior change work in facilitation and coaching. Niomi has worked with clients such as Nike, Snap, Grubhub, Mazda, Tencent and more. She takes a genuine interest in each of her clients; taking time to understand their goals and how best to achieve them. She uses this insight to craft custom strategies and learning approaches tailored to the unique needs of each organization.

Prior to her role at Paradigm, Niomi led inclusive hiring strategies as a Talent Acquisition Manager, implementing bias-mitigation and inclusive hiring practices across the US. Niomi completed her MBA with a concentration in Organizational Behavior at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Jasmine is a leader on Paradigm’s Strategy Team, specializing in helping companies translate data insights into action. As Paradigm’s Data Science Manager and a Principal Consultant, she leads consulting teams in tackling our largest and most complex strategy partnerships, advising senior leaders, and shaping data-driven solutions that drive meaningful change and progress toward business objectives.

At Paradigm, Jasmine has refined the team’s approach to analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and our practice of measuring the impact of our work in organizations. She advises clients on a range of initiatives, from projects related to people data collection and analytics across the talent lifecycle to employee survey design, analysis, and action planning. Her expertise ensures that stakeholders are equipped with the insights and strategies needed to accomplish their people and culture goals.

Since joining Paradigm in 2019, Jasmine has worked with more than 60 organizations across industries, regions, and company sizes — including American Express, Atlassian, Baker Tilly, Boston Ballet, Citrix, Nike, Sarepta Therapeutics, Silicon Labs, and Allianz Partners. She tailors her approach to meet each organization’s unique challenges, whether in the U.S. or globally.

Before joining Paradigm, Jasmine studied industrial engineering and worked as an analyst at JPMorgan Chase. She holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Washington University in St. Louis. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of research and practice, Jasmine combines deep expertise in data science with a passion for building workplaces where people thrive.

Natalie is Paradigm’s Co-Founder and the Managing Director of our Strategy team. Natalie’s team of data scientists, qualitative researchers, and strategy consultants is dedicated to helping clients assess, design, implement, and benchmark their diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies through long-term partnerships. Natalie focuses her time on developing new products and services, including Paradigm’s workplace culture strategy product, Blueprint, and delivering impactful work with a focus on research, data, and impact. In addition to currently leading Paradigm’s strategy team, Natalie previously led and helped scale the firm’s Training team. In this role, she helped develop Paradigm’s training offerings and delivered impactful training to thousands of employees and executives globally.

Natalie has led Paradigm’s engagements with dozens of companies across industries and across the world, and has partnered with executives at innovative companies including Airbnb, Box, Capital One, GE, IDEO, NerdWallet, Lyft, Amazon, American Express, Greenhouse, Paramount, and Stripe.

Before co-founding Paradigm, Natalie was a part of Google’s People Analytics team, developing and analyzing a wide range of diversity and inclusion initiatives. During her time at Google, Natalie was one of the original facilitators of Google’s Unconscious Bias training where she helped deliver hundreds of training sessions across the United States and Europe. Natalie received an impact award for her meaningful work with Gayglers—Google’s LGBTQ+ employee resource group– where she organized an effort to bring a group of Gayglers from across the world to celebrate Global Pride in India. Natalie holds a master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University’s Teachers College.

Ryan is a Director on Paradigm’s Strategy team and brings 15 years of strategy development, consulting, and HR management experience to Paradigm. Ryan focuses his time on strengthening Paradigm’s strategy service delivery, which includes refining Paradigm’s approach to in-depth consulting work, organizational assessments, and advisory partnerships. Ryan was also one of the lead architects behind the development and launch of Blueprint, Paradigm’s workplace culture strategy product.

Ryan leads consulting teams dedicated to helping clients build, assess, design, implement, and benchmark their workplace culture strategies through long-term partnerships. Ryan personally advises clients on a wide variety of topics, including implementing effective diversity and inclusion strategies, equitable performance and talent management processes, sustainable DEI committees, change management approaches, and more. Ryan has led Paradigm’s engagements with 50+ clients of all sizes and industries, including private equity firms, global professional services firms, tech startups, non-profits, retailers, law firms, and manufacturers. Examples include: GE, Advent International, ZS, Rue Gilt Groupe, Origin Materials, Vuori, Financial Health Network, Hologram, and Recursion Pharmaceuticals.

Prior to joining Paradigm, Ryan worked for the global HR consulting firm Mercer, where he held both consulting and internal roles and partnered with executives to develop and lead organizational redesign efforts. Ryan also served as a Veterans ERG leader and DEI committee chair, coordinating efforts across global employee resource chapters and ensuring alignment to the company’s people strategy. Ryan served in the United States Navy as a Sonar Technician and Intelligence Analyst, and he holds a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Quinnipiac University.

Joelle partners with leaders of some of the world’s most innovative companies to consult and advise on diversity and inclusion strategies. She has written extensively about diversity, inclusion, and unconscious bias, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and on the cover of The Atlantic. She has been named to Recode’s list of the 100 most influential people in business, Marie Claire’s “New Guard” list of 50 women changing the world, and The New York Times’ Groundbreakers.

Before founding Paradigm, Joelle was a civil rights lawyer. Joelle’s legal background highlighted the consequences that can result from companies failing to consider diversity and inclusion early, and inspired her to found Paradigm. Joelle is a graduate of Stanford Law School.

As a Senior Consultant on Paradigm’s Learning Team, Pin-ya partners with organizations to cultivate inclusive, high-performing workplace cultures. She designs and delivers engaging trainings, crafts impactful learning journeys, and advises clients on data-driven strategies to build more effective team cultures.

Pin-ya draws from years of experience in psychological research, teaching, and leadership development in her work. With clients such as Capital One, Google, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pin-ya has facilitated hundreds of trainings and partnered with executives, people leaders, and individual contributors across a range of industries.

Anastasia Greenmore is an experienced equity and inclusion Facilitator. Anastasia has an extensive background in cultivating psychologically safe learning spaces, helping adults metabolize and lean into potentially uncomfortable topics like racial equity and systemic biases, and hosting workshops that leave people feeling inspired, educated, and energized to take their personal and professional equity work to the next level.

She has nearly 15 years of experience building diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging programs from the ground up in both nonprofit and corporate spaces. She approaches the work with the mindset of helping people understand and move through complex ideas and behavior changes. As a people leader, she developed and implemented global diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging programs from recruiting to HR systems, learning and development to data analysis, and more. Anastasia has worked with employee resources groups at many stages to build strong communities, especially for people from backgrounds that have been historically marginalized. She prides herself on doing the hard work to create psychologically safe spaces for learning and growth. She holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelors in Strategic Communications and Spanish.

She is a mother and an advocate for environmental, social, and economic justice, passionately championing causes related to early childhood, caregiver support, and black mother and infant success. When she’s not working, you can find her on the Peloton or with her family camping and hiking around Washington.

Ronnie Braithwaite is a Training Consultant-Facilitator on Paradigm’s Learning team. He is a seasoned professional at the intersection of culture and inclusion, eLearning, and organizational development. They bring over seven years of rich experience across various facets of training facilitation, eLearning product management, and learning experience design.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Ronnie graduated Cum Laude from the University of Miami with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, where he studied marketing, screenwriting, and motion pictures. With an academic background that also includes an MBA from Clark Atlanta University and specialized training from Yale School of Management’s Fostering Inclusion & Diversity executive development program, Ronnie has cemented his expertise in crafting impactful learning and development initiatives.

He has spent the last seven years leading learning & development consulting where he’s developed and implemented blended learning programs for clients like Adobe, Apple, Google, and the Television Academy. Further, as the company’s first product manager at both Seed&Spark and ReadySet, he developed and managed enterprise diversity and inclusion learning solutions, FilmForward.io and NewDay. Since 2019, he has created and implemented over 200 workshops and eLearnings ranging from product/software training to people skills training to process training.

Beyond his corporate achievements, Ronnie is an activist and independent documentary filmmaker dedicated to crafting narratives that foster self-growth and empowerment, particularly within marginalized black communities. His work as a filmmaker has produced critically acclaimed films like “Woke,” which earned eleven festival awards for its insightful exploration of race in fraternities, “Bipolart,” which marked his directorial debut, focusing on mental illness, and “He They,” which explored his gender identity journey. His films are celebrated for their honest examination of internalized oppression related to race, disability, and gender and have been featured in film festivals in Atlanta, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, London, Cannes, among other cities worldwide. Active listening, inclusive communication, vulnerability modeling, sentiment analysis, and storytelling are a few skills Ronnie enjoys practicing in common between his roles as a Training Facilitator and a documentary filmmaker.

Talia is a facilitator on Paradigm’s Learning Team. She brings experience in training and facilitation, leadership development, employee engagement, and coaching. She thrives within the intersection of people and systems and is passionate about cultivating environments of learning and inclusivity.

Talia’s experience also includes working in the education non-profit space, building an employee development function at a global sports and entertainment company, consulting HR leaders on employee retention and engagement challenges, and executive coaching.

Talia holds a master’s degree in Social-Organizational Psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Santa Clara University. She is also a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation.

Analia is a facilitator on Paradigm’s Learning Team. She brings years of experience in curriculum design, facilitation, and growing innovative programs to her work with Paradigm clients. As a former educator, professor, and leader in New York City special-education spaces, Analia is passionate about incorporating intersectionality into disability inclusion efforts. In her role, she has partnered with high-growth startups, global professional services firms, and Fortune 500 companies — such as Snap Inc., Xylem, DocuSign, Blue Shield, Gibson Dunn, and Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluations — to design learning programs with impact.

Analia is passionate about incorporating intersectionality into disability inclusion efforts. Drawing on her past work in education, Analia cultivates inclusion through education about disability bias and advocating to remove environmental and social barriers for people with disabilities. Prior to joining Paradigm, Analia was an Assistant Professor of Practice at Relay Graduate School of Education, where her teaching focused on bridging research with practical application, and designing culturally responsive learning environments. A Teach for America alum and a co-founder of KIPP Infinity Elementary School in Harlem, Analia remains committed to innovating education. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of Southern California and a MS.Ed. in Special Education from CUNY Lehman College.