I’m Eddie Pate – Eddie Pate

A little about me

I’m Eddie Pate
Author/Speaker/ID&E Consultant/Inclusive Leadership Expert

I have spent 24+ years doing Inclusion and Diversity (ID&E) work and fully immersing myself in identifying and addressing issues surrounding inclusion, diversity, equity, cultural competence, and driving systemic change. My 24+ year career journey took me through several Northwest companies, Microsoft, Starbucks, Avanade, and Amazon. I was extremely fortunate to have gained experience as an ID&E Executive working globally, across tech and retail, and in fast-paced, matrixed environments. I cannot image focusing on anything but doing work that was sincerely meaningful, globally impactful, and personally important to the people I worked with every day..

Eddie Pate Speaking and Consulting, Inc.

Eddie Pate Speaking and Consulting focuses on illuminating Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Cultural Competence issues and sustainable solutions. Our mission is to provide thought leadership in ID&E, pushing organizations to be intentional in their approach and focused on addressing issues from a systems framework. Keynote presentations, roundtable and panel facilitation, ID&E and Leadership consulting, Inclusive Leadership/hiring training, and Executive guidance will be the primary methods to accomplish our mission.

Speaking

Topics: Overall Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity, Cultural Competence, Inclusive Leadership, Privilege & Meritocracy, Inclusive Hiring, Systems approach to ID&E strategy, Employee Resource Groups, Microinequities & Aggressions, Integrated Inclusion, Finding and Hiring Diversity Talent, Visualizing qualitative and quantitative data approaches, scorecards, assessment, and impact.

Consulting

Topics: Overall Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity, Cultural Competence, Inclusive Leadership, Inclusive Hiring, Systems approach to ID&E strategy, Integrated Inclusion, Finding and Hiring Diversity Talent, The life cycle approach to ID—Attract, Develop, Keep, & Engage, HR as True ID&E Partners, Thinking through qualitative and quantitative data approaches, scorecards, assessment, and impact, Leadership accountability and involvement.

Executive Coaching & Guidance

Topics: ID&E Philosophy and Strategic Approaches, Leadership accountability and involvement, establishing an organizational ID&E “stake in the sand;” ID&E personal brand, Thinking about ID&E Globally, and daily practices for inclusive leaders that build cultures of belonging