Jonathan Philipp Email and Phone Number

• Manage the firm's nine national Business Resource Groups (BRGs), including developing the firm’s long-term BRG strategy• Lead the creation and execution of Grant Thornton's annual Inclusive Leadership Conference, LGBTQ+ Leadership Conference, Women's Leadership Conference, Veteran's Leadership Conference, and Disability's Leadership Conference• Collaborate with internal and external communications to build awareness around diversity and inclusion initiatives• Coordinate firm-wide celebrations of national heritage months that positively impact employee engagement• Lead the completion of external diversity & inclusion awards including the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, Working Mother Best 100 Companies, NAFE, and Disability Equality Index• Partner with firm leadership to equip them to become diversity and inclusion change agents• Measure success through tracking workforce data and engagement surveys • Create and lead national webcasts on a variety of diversity & inclusion topics including: allyship, inclusive leadership, and recruiting best practices• Represent the firm externally through various speaking engagements

• Project manager for the development of the Bank’s long term diversity and inclusion plan• Wrote the Bank’s annual OMWI Congressional Report on diversity and inclusion• Created reporting dashboards for analysis of the Bank’s workforce data• Developed and conducted inclusion training for senior level officers and managers • Managed the Bank’s eleven business resource groups• Contributed to an industry wide initiative, the Financial Service Pipeline (FSP) Initiative, focused on increasing diversity and culture competency in the financial industry

• Assisted in the production of documentaries that deal with complex issues in public policy

• Developed, wrote, and disseminated employment and social welfare policy advocacy materials• Advanced the National Transitional Jobs Network’s (NTJN) policy agenda by managing and updating the blog, Facebook and Twitter pages• Assisted in advancing the goals of the Working to End Homelessness Project and the B.MORE Project• Built relationships with TJ program administrators and workforce development stakeholders to guide program delivery, advance peer learning, and promote best practices

• Lead statewide advocacy efforts and public awareness initiatives to build statewide support to improve the lives of children• Coordinated Great at Eight conference that brought hundreds of policy makers and advocates together to discuss important issues facing children from birth to eight• Assisted in the media launch of the Illinois Kids Count report, widely recognized as the most comprehensive examination of children’s lives in the state

• Assisted in research and writing of "Royal Fever: The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture" a book about the market created by the British Royalty

• Developed high level mass communication and group organizing skills• Developed detail skills including scheduling and data base management • Wrote a weekly email that was sent to over two hundred political professionals around the country• Practiced professional phone call communications• Coordinated logistics for a conference including catering, hotel, and travel arrangements