Celeste Warren

Celeste Warren is a visionary leader, TEDx Speaker, author, and former Vice President and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at a global Fortune 100 company, where she spent 28 years driving transformational change. During her decade leading the Global Diversity and Inclusion Center of Excellence, she implemented groundbreaking strategies that helped embed equity and inclusion into business operations and culture.

Today, Celeste is the founder of Celeste Warren Consulting, LLC, where she partners with organizations to build equitable systems that create opportunity and drive sustainable impact. Her TEDx talk highlights the critical importance of changing systems—not just individuals—to create real and lasting momentum in equity.

Celeste is also the co-founder of Destination STEM, Inc., a nonprofit she launched with her two children to support students of color and underserved students pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Celeste is a published author and her articles on diversity, equity and inclusion have been featured in numerous national and global publications and she has had the opportunity to speak at various events across the world. She has recently published her second book entitled “The Truth About Equity”