About Us

Dani Monroe, MSOD
Founder, MV Inclusion and Opportunity Leaders Summit

Dani is a senior executive with global experience in inclusion and opportunity-for-all strategy and organization transformation. She connects human capital change to business, social and environmental outcomes while maximizing 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 inclusive cultures, retaining talent, and connecting an organization's  mission and work to its surrounding community. She started her career as a consultant to AT&T and Apple and moved to internal roles for Bank of Boston, Pfizer, and Mass General Brigham, successfully 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 Massachusetts, with 85,000 employees across 16 institutions.

Dani’s global consulting clients 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. She is the author of Untapped Talent: Unleashing the Power of the Hidden Workforce(Palgrave MacMillan) and numerous published articles. In 2024, she became a “History Maker” , a prominent project that documents the life experiences of African Americans and is housed at the Library of Congress.

Project Team

  • Kristin Healy, CMP

    Summit Event Manager
    Owner & Creative Director, Swank Events

  • Michele Gibbons-Carr

    Summit Design Consultant

  • Audra Bohannon

    Summit Design Consultant
    Founder, Bohannon Advisory

  • Marsha Levell

    Corporate Partner Engagement Director

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

It embodies our life’s work to guide others through rough and unknown territory, adversity, and overwhelming challenges, to a place of welcome and safety. Like the lighthouse, Inclusion and Opportunity leaders 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 Inclusion and Opportunity leaders must have strength, courage, resilience, and endurance.