Aubrey Blanche, The Mathpath (Math Nerd + Empath), is a people & culture, ESG, and responsible AI executive with global experience specialising in developing and scaling teams and processes to achieve business growth objectives. An expert at systems-level analysis and design and a believer in data-informed methods, with extensive experience in communications (internal, external, and crisis), HR, ESG, AI product development, and go-to-market strategy. Experienced non-profit board member, startup investor, and advisor. She is currently CEO of her eponymous equitable design consultancy.
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, motivating 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 people practices to light.
A regular speaker and writer on issues of equity, culture, and responsible business 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 worldand sits on the Board of Directors of Circle of Blue and the Culture Amp Foundation. Her work has been featured in Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the Australian Financial Review, USA Today, Re/Code, First Round Review, and more.
Talking Points
From Program to Process: Designing Equitable Organisations & Products
How many organisations, processes, and products are poorly designed or produce real-world harm because the right voices weren't let into the room where the building...happens? How much money has been spent on “diversity & inclusion” while companies remain homogenous and underrepresented employees struggle to thrive? A lack of progress has left almost everyone with “diversity fatigue”.From Program to Process: Designing Equitable Organisations & Products
We need a new human-centered and data-informed approach to finally move the needle, enlisting each of us to step up to design the equitable world we all dream of.
Designing Equitable Artificial Intelligence
As artificial intelligence (AI) takes over more and more aspects of our work and personal lives, how does it impact the way we and others–especially those from marginalized backgrounds–are treated? With the rise of large language models (LLMs) trained on highly biased datasets and those writing algorithms lacking the lived experience and formal education to understand how and to what extent their creations are introducing, perpetuating, and exacerbating social and institutional biases, we are at a crossroads. Join The Mathpath, Aubrey Blanche-Sarellano, for a deep dive into what the potential future of a machine-enabled world can look like, and walk away with practical ideas about how we can ensure that leaning into technology can create a fairer, more equitable future.
Designing Equitable Artificial Intelligence
Doing Data: How to (Legally) Leverage Information to Build an Equitable Organisation
There is more interest–and more pushback–than ever about how identity impacts employees’ experience at work, and how companies support people from underrepresented groups and those from marginalized backgrounds. Most people know that they have to start with the data, but might not know how (or whether they’re allowed to). Aubrey Blanche-Sarellano has spent years working with organizations around the world to build strategies that advance the cause of equity within the workplace, with a special focus on collecting, analyzing, and using data to make informed decisions about the best ways to drive positive change. In a changing and highly-charged environment, even the most convicted leaders might wonder how to move forward. In this talk, Blanche-Sarellano lays out an effective, legal framework to develop a data-backed approach to equitable organizational transformation.
Doing Data: How to (Legally) Leverage Information to Build an Equitable Organisation
Panel Moderation & Participation
Aubrey is available to serve as a panellist and/or panel moderator on topics of D&I strategy, equitable design within organizations, talent processes, venture capital, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Panel Moderation & Participation
Video
How to Create Just & Equitable Work with Aubrey Blanche, Director of Equitable Design at Culture Amp
Today's guest is Aubrey Blanche, who is both the Director of Equitable Design for People and Product at Culture Amp and the CEO of The Mathpath. Aubrey is laser-focused on equitable design, and if you have any interest at all in diversity, equity, and inclusion you should follow her on Twitter. In today's conversation, Aubrey dives deep into the nuances of what it means to build organizations that strive to be more equitable. This is something that needs to be held right at the heart of every organization. Aubrey emphasizes that there is no way to achieve equitable design. Instead, each of us can focus on what is the next best step that we can take. I hope you enjoy the powerful insights Aubrey shares in this conversation, and let us know what your next best step is.Leading W/ Empathy & Allyship EP46 "Shifting Our Work From Diversity To Equitable Design" A. Blanche
Aubrey Blanche is The Mathpath (Math Nerd + Empath), Director of Equitable Design & Impact at Culture Amp, and a startup investor, and advisor. She is the inventor of the balanced teams approach and a culture of belonging, and the Balanced Teams Diversity Assessment in the Atlassian Team PlaybookEquitable Organizational Design | Aubrey Blanche of Culture Amp
What once was "normal" wasn't really wonderful for many. How can we ensure that moving forward, we change this? As the world slowly begins to re-open, what can we do to ensure that our organizations are built in such a matter so as to ensure equity for all; be it inside the company in our teams, and our external partners as well? Please join us as we delve into this important conversation with Aubrey Blanche, Global Head of Equitable Design & Impact at Culture Amp.
