Kendra Proctor Goldbas is the Director of Professional Development for the McKinsey West Coast Offices.  She is passionate about people and talent strategy; leadership and executive coaching; and building high-performing culture and community.

Kendra has oversight responsibility for professional development, project staffing and performance management for more than 1,000 McKinsey consultants across five Firm locations. She serves as a confidential counselor to consultants of all tenures on skill and career development, and provides strategic counsel, implementation support and risk management guidance to the West Coast Senior Partnership.

In 2019 Kendra was appointed to the West Coast Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Board.  As a long time member of the McKinsey Black Network, Kendra is dedicated to ensuring that inclusive practices are embedded in all aspects of McKinsey culture; and she works closely with a broad range of colleagues to deliver a people strategy that attracts, retains and advances diverse talent.

Until her move to Seattle in 2015, Kendra was a member of the Mid Atlantic Office, where she spent six years leading professional development efforts in the Philadelphia location.  In recognition of her contributions, Kendra was a recipient of the Joel Portnoy Award, an annual recognition of a Philadelphia office member who embraces the Firm's dual client and people mission with uncommon passion, curiosity, and generosity to others.

Kendra first joined McKinsey in 2000 as an Associate in the Johannesburg office.  And for nearly three years, she primarily served clients in the consumer packaged goods industry.  Prior to rejoining McKinsey in 2008, Kendra was the Associate Director for the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research where she led day-to-day operations and oversaw board relations. She holds a M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in Public Policy from Brown University. She is a member of the Links, Inc. and serves on the University of Washington Dean’s Council for the School of Public Health.

Kendra lives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle with her husband and two sons.

Bobby Griffin is the Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion for CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services company with over 100,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries. In his role, Bobby works closely with the Chief Diversity Officer and leadership on  development and execution of CBRE’s diversity and inclusion strategy and plans. Bobby provides guidance aimed at further positioning CBRE as an employer of choice for diverse talent. He focuses on CBRE’s commitment to its employees and the diversity and inclusion mission: To foster an inclusive and engaging work environment that values and leverages employee differences to achieve world class business results. This includes developing, implementing and supporting diversity initiatives, enhancing the effectiveness of employee networks and integration of D&I into talent acquisition and talent management processes. Bobby also works to engage and effectively partner with diversity focused organizations, suppliers and communities to enhance diversity & inclusion within CBRE and in the customer base and communities in which the company conducts business.

Prior to joining CBRE, Bobby was the Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion for Flowserve Corporation, a manufacturing and fluid motion services company with operations in 50 countries across 3 global regions. In his role, Bobby was responsible for partnering with leadership on the strategy design and execution of Flowserve’s global D&I effort.  Prior to Joining Flowserve, Bobby worked as the Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion for Alcon/Novartis, a global eye care and pharmaceutical manufacturing and sales company with operations in 75 countries around the world.

Bobby has also held various regional and national level human resource leadership positions in Fortune 100 companies in the consumer products goods and health care sectors including Coca-Cola Enterprises and Merck & Co. Inc.  In these roles he successfully developed and implemented strategies, initiatives, and solutions that drove and supported diversity & inclusion, leadership development, and talent management.

Bobby holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Abilene Christian University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Texas.

Erica Licht has been engaged in racial equity and organizational change research and training for over 15 years. She is currently Director of Research Projects at the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA) at Harvard University where she leads and co-designs IARA’s projects and partnerships. Erica is a Fulbright Scholar, and holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Masters in Justice Policy from the London School of Economics where she was a Maguire Fellow. 

Prior to IARA, Erica served as Assistant Director at the Center on Culture, Race, and Equity at Bank Street College in New York City, and as a Fellow with Race Forward and the Government Alliance for Racial Equity. Her career has focused on collaborative community and institutional change programs globally, including consulting with the Center for Creative Leadership in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Lemann Foundation in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Lagos State University and Alternatives to Violence International in Lagos, Nigeria. 

Erica is an expert facilitator, and has taught course work on justice reform at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and on adaptive leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NYAEYC). She currently co-hosts the podcast Untying Knots.