Amanda Joyner Email & Phone Number

With 10 years of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), I am passionate about creating and fostering inclusive and equitable workplaces and communities. My professional background includes strategic mapping and development for organizational structure with a DEIB lens and KPI outcomes. I specialize in executive advising for business development and continuity. I leverage my skills and credentials in education, marketing, and DEI to inform, advise, and facilitate organization-wide and inclusion initiatives and programs. I am motivated by passion of inclusive equity to implement accountability with tangible outcomes and lasting results. I'm obsessed with building rapport and genuine relationships. Clifton Strengths Skills: Strategic, Relator, Responsibility, Individualism, Context

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  Senior Equity And Inclusion Consultant

  Mecklenburg County

  Nov 2022 - Present

  • Inform organization-wide equity and inclusion guidance to equity project teams, department leadership, interdepartmental teams, and support partners in the delivery of equity policies, programs of County services, and operations• Advise 22 department teams including executive leadership to advance equity and inclusion through the development of Department Equity Action Plans and Executive Workplans• Develop, manage, and facilitate agency, state and nationwide workshops, and training sessions to promote equity and inclusion for 6000 employees with a $3 million dollar budget. • Present quarterly written recommendations and executive reports on DEI trends—both regionally and nationally—to County Management and Board of Commissioners to implement executive strategy. • Lead the dissemination of national best and emerging practices in a complex and highly decentralized environment, collaborating with staff across the county involved in culture & climate and equity, & inclusion initiatives. • Conduct extensive research, collecting and analyzing disparity data to develop reports that support the annual work plan; provide data expertise and analysis of disparity data to develop comprehensive reports and implement programs and initiatives submerged in data.• Provide ongoing training, learning opportunities, and activities to advance equity and inclusion throughout agency.• Stewards the development and direction of Employee Resource Groups in alignment with County equity action plan, culture & climate, and community outreach efforts.• Provide strategic direction and business development with racial equity tools to both internal and external stakeholders. • Partner and support Mecklenburg County’s Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer to operationalize an equity lens into countywide policy, programs, and budget decisions to advance and support equitable service delivery to the community.