Aubrey Blanche-Sarellano is the The Mathpath (Math Nerd + Empath), CEO of her eponymous equitable design consultancy, and the VP of Equitable Operations at HR technology firm Culture Amp. Through all her work, she seeks to question, reimagine, and redesign the systems and practices that surround us to ensure that all people can access equitable opportunities and build a better world. Her work is undergirded by her training in social scientific methods and grounded in her belief in the fundamental dignity, value, and wisdom of every person.
Her professional expertise focuses on designing and implementing equity-creating solutions to varied aspects of enterprise operations from talent programs and communications to sustainability, philanthropy, and artificial intelligence. Her experience in business development and product management has helped her design effective go-to-market strategies and launch multiple successful DEI-focused products. Her work has strong underpinnings in her academic training, which has helped her bring significant original research on trends, attitudes, and investments on global diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to light.
A regular speaker and writer on issues of equity, fairness, and accessibility in organizations, finance, and technology products, Blanche-Sarellano has appeared on stages and in media outlets all over the world. She is an advisor to a portfolio of organizations seeking to build a more equitable world, including Seed & Spark, On Ramp, and Pivot Diversity. She sits on the Board of Directors of Circle of Blue. Her work has been featured in Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the Australian Financial Review, USA Today, Re/Code, First Round Review, and more. She also has previous academic affiliations with Stanford and Northwestern, and has lectured on equitable organizational design at universities including MIT, UC Berkeley, and Columbia. Despite the accolades listed here, she asks that you engage with her work to judge her competence: traditional proxies of merit and/orMore...