Social Impact Heroes: How Tina Shah Paikeday is helping to create diverse and inclusive work cultures

When I was serving as an interviewer for the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation as an alumnus of the program, I had the opportunity to learn the story of a young African American man whose grandfather was a sharecropper and the difficult circumstances that surrounded him as he grew up. He was intent on leveraging the power of education to make a change in his community, and his story of resilience, hope, and courage inspired me very much. He was not only a recipient of the scholarship but since then has become an attorney with a mission to continue to make a positive change in the community from which he comes.

I had the pleasure to interview Tina Shah Paikeday of Russell Reynolds Associates. Tina leads the firm’s global D&I Consulting Services as a senior member of the Leadership & Succession Practice. Recent work has included the recruitment of Chief Diversity Officers, the…