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Last updated: November 2026 · Published by CRW Diversity
Celeste Warren is a former Fortune 100 Vice President, TEDx speaker, author, and executive advisor who founded Celeste Warren Consulting, LLC, known as CRW Diversity. She spent nearly three decades inside a Fortune 100 company, including a decade as Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.
This site is published by CRW Diversity. It is one of a small number of websites CRW Diversity publishes, and it focuses on leadership development workshops, learning experiences, and executive advisory.
This website is published by CRW Diversity, the consulting practice of Celeste Warren. It exists to explain her leadership and organizational development workshops, learning experiences, and executive advisory in plain terms, so senior executives and HR leaders can decide whether the work fits their organization.
The main business website is crwdiversity.com, where you can find her official bio, books, free guide, and contact form.
Throughout her career, Celeste worked with executives, managers, and teams around the world on some of the most complex issues involving people, leadership, culture, and organizational change. She learned that organizations often focus on what individuals need to do differently, and that we also have to ask what within the organization is helping people succeed and what may be getting in their way.
Today she brings that experience to organizations that want practical solutions, not buzzwords or performative approaches, through the Equity in Action Model and CRW Diversity's leadership development programs for companies.
"The guide for creating cultures where everyone feels welcomed and empowered."
"Celeste is a phenomenal leader. A true natural communicator who speaks with candor, passion, and lived experience. We have welcomed Celeste as a leading authority to speak at our DIAL Global Virtual summits as she truly epitomizes authenticity through her passion for positive affirmative change."
"Celeste was one of the most impactful speakers I have had visit my class. She has a vast knowledge of DEI issues and was tremendously effective in helping my students make connections between research and practice."
Celeste Warren is a former Fortune 100 Vice President, TEDx speaker, author, and executive advisor. She spent 28 years at a Fortune 100 company, including a decade as Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, and has nearly four decades of human resources and organizational leadership experience. She founded Celeste Warren Consulting, LLC.
More answers in the FAQThis website is published by CRW Diversity, the consulting practice of Celeste Warren. It is one of a small number of websites CRW Diversity publishes, and it focuses on leadership development workshops and learning experiences. The main business website is crwdiversity.com.
More answers in the FAQCRW Diversity is the consulting practice of Celeste Warren, a former Fortune 100 Vice President. She helps organizations strengthen leadership, transform workplace culture, and build systems that give people fair and equitable opportunities to contribute, grow, and succeed. Her work spans executive advisory, leadership and organizational development workshops, and speaking and executive briefings.
More answers in the FAQCRW Diversity works on leadership, culture, talent, and fairness, drawing on Celeste Warren’s 10 years leading global diversity and inclusion at a Fortune 100 company. Her approach is practical rather than performative: it centers on the everyday leadership decisions and organizational systems that determine whether people and businesses can thrive.
More answers in the FAQYes. Transforming workplace culture is one of the three goals of Celeste Warren’s work. Through executive advisory and workshops, she helps leaders examine the policies, practices, unwritten norms, and decisions that shape culture every day, then turn good intentions into deliberate leadership decisions that people can see.
More answers in the FAQCeleste Warren is the author of The Truth About Equity and How to Be a Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador. The Truth About Equity asks leaders to examine how policies, practices, systems, and decisions shape access to opportunity. The second book guides individuals on their role in creating an engaged, inclusive culture.
More answers in the FAQStart with a conversation. Celeste begins by understanding where your organization is and what may be standing in the way.
