Vanessa Womack is a skilled facilitator in leadership, soft skills, inclusive community engagement, and strategic planning for boards. As an experienced course designer, she developed the successful LinkedIn Learning course “Managing A Diverse Team,” which launched in 2018 and has accumulated over 175,000 global learners. She wrote the audio course on Listenable, “Practicing DEI Can Improve Organizational Culture,” which launched in 2020. She completed a certificate for training from the University of South Florida—MUMA School of Business for DEI in the Workplace.

She has been the Inclusive Community Development Consultant for the Alliance for Building Better Medicines, part of the Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia region’s advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing and economic ecosystem. The Alliance was launched to fast-track the manufacturing of essential medicines in the United States.

Other experiences include being BoardSource Certified Governance Consultant; Bryant-Stratton College Assistant Professor, Lead Faculty-Area Chair in the School of Business at the University of Phoenix former local campus in Richmond, VA; coaching and facilitating career transitioning clients for future jobs and entrepreneurship; public speaker and radio show, On Track with Vanessa Womack; and earlier in her career as spokesperson for the National Marrow Donor Program (now Be the Match) recruiting and promoting the marrow registry in Black communities. She has facilitated community dialogue through Initiatives of Change/Hope in the Cities’ presentation, Unpacking 2010 Census: The Realities of Race, Class, and Jurisdiction.

Vanessa earned her undergraduate degree from Baruch College (CUNY) and her graduate degree from Averett University. She is a Leadership Metro Richmond class (LQ 2006) member in Richmond, Virginia.