Dr. Lisa M. Coleman, Ph.D.

Principal Consultant on Adult Learning and Workforce Innovation

Lisa M. Coleman Ph.D., serves as Principal Consultant and Special Advisor on Adult Learning and Workforce Equity at Integrated Diversity (iD). She is also New York University’s (NYU) inaugural Senior Vice President for Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation. In this role, she works with senior leaders, internal stakeholders, external partners, and other constituents to advance, promote, and build capacity for strategic global diversity, equity, inclusion, access, belonging, and innovation initiatives across NYU globally, including at NYU New York, Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi, and the University’s thirteen other sites and numerous global centers. Dr. Coleman is also a faculty member at NYU Stern Business School and teaches at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Prior to NYU, Dr. Coleman served as the first Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the President at Harvard University for almost a decade where she and her team developed some of the first initiatives focused on the intersections of technology, disability, and access.

Before her appointment at Harvard University, she served as an administrator and faculty member at Tufts University and was later appointed to serve as that institution’s first global inclusion and diversity senior executive.

Dr. Coleman has spent more than 20 years working with numerous educational, healthcare, and governmental systems, and corporate, for-profit, and non-profit organizations. Her early professional and research experience include working with the Association of American Medical Colleges and Merrill Lynch, and serving as an independent computer and data analytics consultant, and as an international organizational strategic consultant. Dr. Coleman’s collaborations with global stakeholders have focused on, including but not limited to, the future of work, education, and emerging fields; developing research, harnessing innovation, and cultivating global talent across entrepreneurial markets; and cross-sector leadership and knowledge development.