Gretchen C. Bellamy (she/her) has nearly 25 years of experience in diversity, equity & inclusion (DE&I) strategy across many industries touching nearly every continent. With her world-class legal & business background including two Duke University law degrees and senior leadership experience at organizations such as Walmart Inc., McDonald’s Corp. and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she provides ex-pert DEI strategic planning, training, coaching and advisory services globally to transform organizational culture, operations, and talent management through the creation, refinement, and implementation of DEI strategies to positively drive business resilience.
She’s committed has committed her career to DEI strategic development, organizational design and change management and has worked successfully with various stakeholders and colleagues at all levels of corporations (public and private), universities, non‐profits, governmental bodies and other institutions. Gretchen has spearheaded forward‐thinking talent/leadership development through a lens of DEI policies and practices as well as effectively led teams and managed innovative and award‐winning global projects in the UK and Latin America that have created tangible and sustainable organizational change using data and metrics as the foundation of any work contemplated.
She has won several awards for her innovative, replicable, and sustainable approach to DE&I including the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visionary Award by Walmart, Architect of Meritocracy by the Apollo Project & Financial Times of London and Outstanding Corporate Counsel by the American Bar Association Section of International Law. She serves on several boards and advisory boards in addition to the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association including serving as the secretary of the board of directors for The Centre for Global Inclu-sion, an advisory board member for both the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession and Level the Playing Field, and as a co-lead for the Apollo Leadership Institute. Finally, she served as a Commissioner & Special Advisor for the American Bar Association’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profes-sion where she chaired the Corporate Counsel Committee (and lead the Model Diversity Survey from its inception and launched the UK version with Interlaw Diversity Forum) as well as liaison to the Commission on Women and co-chair of the Task Force on Sexual Harassment & Gender-based Bullying. Ms. Bellamy received a J.D. and LL.M. in international and comparative law from Duke University School of Law and is admitted to the Maryland bar. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Cameroon 2001). Lastly, but most importantly, she is the mother of a beautiful son and “pack leader” to Petey & Pablo.