Nicole Sanchez (Founder & CEO @Vaya Consulting)

For 27 years, Nicole Sanchez has served as a leading expert on diversity, equity, inclusion, and organizational culture. As Founder & CEO of Vaya Consulting, Nicole has transformed workplace culture for Fortune 500 corporations, in pre-IPO tech, Film/TV production, and in the non-profit sector. She has served as a lecturer on workplace diversity at the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and consults and speaks globally, advising executives on best practices. She previously served as the Associate Director for Ethics in Society at Stanford University and VP of Social Impact at GitHub. Nicole is acting board chair of CODE2040, helping to build the largest racial equity community in tech. Nicole earned her BA from Stanford University and MBA from UC Berkeley. Nicole lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was born and raised.