Sahar Yousef
Cognitive Neuroscientist | Founder, Becoming Superhuman | Lecturer, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business | Focus, Productivity & Energy Expert
Tina Opie
Founder of Shared Sisterhood™ | Associate Professor at Babson College | Harvard Business School Visiting Scholar | Award-Winning Author & DEI Authority
Dr. Tina Opie is an award-winning researcher, Babson College professor, and Harvard visiting scholar, known by Thinkers50 as a "culture and DEI whisperer." The founder of the Shared Sisterhood™ movement and co-author of a Forbes Best Business Book of 2022, she gives organizations a research-based framework to build equity across differences. On stage, she is authoritative and authentic, turning good intentions into collective action.
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Tina Opie biography
Dr. Tina Opie is an award-winning researcher, business school professor, and one of the most compelling voices on equity, inclusion, and belonging in the modern workplace. The founder of the Shared Sisterhood™ movement, she gives leaders and organizations a research-based, deeply human blueprint for building cultures where people across differences can trust one another, do their best work, and advance together.
Leadership speaker Dr. Tina Opie is an Associate Professor of Management at Babson College and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School, and her work explores the connections between diversity, identity, culture, authenticity, and professionalism, including groundbreaking research on appearance policies and Black women’s hair. She is the co-author, with Beth A. Livingston, of Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work, named one of Forbes’s 10 Best Business Books of 2022. Thinkers50, which ranks her among the world’s most influential management thinkers, has called her a “culture and DEI whisperer.”
Dig, Bridge, and Advance
At the heart of Opie’s work is a practical, three-part framework. “Dig” asks people to examine their own assumptions about race, ethnicity, gender, and power; “Bridge” builds authentic relationships across differences through trust, vulnerability, empathy, and risk-taking; and “Advance” turns those connections into collective action that moves all people forward across an organization and beyond. Chief Vision Officer of Opie Consulting Group, she has advised organizations across beauty, financial services, healthcare, media, and education, and her insights are sought by the likes of American Express, Harvard, Hulu, and MIT. Before academia, she was a consultant at A.T. Kearney and a commercial banker at Bank of America, and she holds a PhD in management from NYU’s Stern School and an MBA from Darden. Her work regularly appears in Harvard Business Review, O Magazine, and the Washington Post.
As a speaker, Dr. Tina Opie is known for being both authoritative and authentic, challenging audiences to be vulnerable by modeling it herself and delivering the kind of “mic-drop” moments that have people taking notes. She speaks on building inclusive and equitable cultures, allyship and coalition-building, authenticity and belonging at work, and turning good intentions into collective action. Audiences leave not just moved but equipped with concrete steps they can take, whether they are a new hire or a senior executive, to create workplaces that are better for everyone.
Tina Opie Speaking Videos
Shared Sisterhood | Tina Opie | TEDxReno
Beth Livingston & Tina Opie: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work
Tina Opie Keynote Topics
Drawing on her acclaimed book, Opie introduces the Shared Sisterhood framework and its three pillars, Dig, Bridge, and Advance. She shows how individuals and organizations can move beyond good intentions to genuine, sustainable change, using trust, vulnerability, and empathy to unite people across racial, ethnic, and gender differences and advance equity for all.
Shared Sisterhood is for everyone, not just women. In this session, Opie shows how to galvanize allies at every level of an organization, from new hires to senior executives, into a genuine coalition for change. She offers specific, doable actions that turn passive goodwill into the kind of collective effort that reshapes cultures.
Why do so many talented people feel they must hide who they are to fit in? Drawing on her research into authenticity, identity, and appearance, including her landmark work on Black women's hair, Opie explores how organizations can create environments where people bring their full, authentic selves, and why that authenticity is a source of strength and performance.
No leader sets out to marginalize their people, yet it happens, often in plain sight. Opie walks audiences through the power patterns, notions of "fit," appearance norms, and everyday practices that quietly undermine inclusion efforts, and shows leaders how to identify and change them to build cultures that are genuinely more equitable and sustainable.
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Why Tina Opie?
Booking Dr. Tina Opie gives audiences a rare speaker who is both a rigorous scholar and a magnetic, deeply human presence on stage. An award-winning Babson College professor, Harvard visiting scholar, and Thinkers50-ranked thinker described as a "culture and DEI whisperer," she brings research-based credibility to one of the most important and sensitive challenges organizations face: building genuine equity and belonging. Through her Shared Sisterhood framework and her Forbes-honored book, she gives audiences not just inspiration but concrete, actionable steps anyone can take. Known for being authoritative and authentic in equal measure, and for delivering unforgettable "mic-drop" moments, she is an ideal speaker for leadership summits, DEI and culture events, women's conferences, and any organization serious about inclusion. To bring Tina Opie to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Tina Opie?
Dr. Tina Opie is an American management scholar, consultant, and speaker, and an Associate Professor of Management at Babson College, where she holds the Johnson Family Term Chair. She is also a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School, the founder of the Shared Sisterhood™ movement, and Chief Vision Officer of Opie Consulting Group. The co-author of the Forbes-honored book Shared Sisterhood, she is ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential management thinkers and holds a PhD from NYU's Stern School of Business.
What is Shared Sisterhood?
Shared Sisterhood is the framework and movement created by Dr. Tina Opie to drive racial and gender equity in organizations. It is built on three actions: "Dig" (examining your own assumptions about race, ethnicity, gender, and power), "Bridge" (forming authentic relationships across differences through trust and vulnerability), and "Advance" (turning those relationships into collective action that moves everyone forward). Opie and co-author Beth Livingston detail the approach in their 2022 book of the same name.
What topics does leadership speaker Tina Opie cover?
Dr. Tina Opie speaks on diversity, equity, and inclusion; allyship and coalition-building; authenticity and belonging at work; and identifying the hidden patterns that undermine inclusion. Her keynotes suit leadership summits, culture and DEI events, women's conferences, and organizations seeking practical, research-based tools for building more equitable workplaces. To book Tina Opie as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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