Featured Keynote Speaker: Farah Bernier MBA‘08
As the keynote speaker, alumna Farah Bernier MBA'08 will bring to light the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Farah is an experienced corporate Talent Leader, currently working as an Executive Human Resources Business Partner for Google’s Global Professional Services Organization. In this capacity, she is responsible for leading the integration of diversity and inclusion best practices into the business through partnership with Google’s leadership teams, evaluating and developing effective strategies for recruiting, developing, retaining, and advancing a diverse and representative workforce. Prior to this role, Farah consistently leveraged her expertise in the areas of Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion, Sales, Marketing, Coaching, and Personal Branding to contribute to the talent management strategy of various Fortune 100 companies across multiple industries, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
Farah has built a professional brand of distinguished credibility and expertise in developing talent management strategies that extend seamlessly into best practices. Her recommendations have led to measurable impact tied to diversity and inclusion and enabling corporate cultures where all have the opportunity to succeed and leaders are supported to execute bottom-line, results-focused strategies through their best resources, their teams.
Farah is also the Founder & Principal Coach of Living Fabulously Fierce, a coaching company prioritizing partnership with individuals committed to living with A.I.M.—Authenticity, Intention, and Masterful Execution. It is through her company that she reinforces the principles of personal brand building with her Bernier Brand Building model of Self-Discovery, Self-Definition, and Self-Distinction to position her clients to proactively lead lives that they are most proud of. In her coaching capacity, she has been recognized for her work on branding, talent management, diversity and inclusion, her various speaking engagements, and her podcast of the same name.
Previous Keynote Speakers
2020
Theme: A Chance In the World for All
Speaker: Steve Pemberton
2019
Theme: The Winding Road Toward Justice and Equality
Speaker: Mónica Ramírez
2018
Theme: Tearing Hatred from the Sky
Speaker: Bree Newsome
2017
Theme: History Under Assault
Speaker: Thomas Chatterton Williams
2016
Theme: Eavesdropping on America’s Conversation on Race
Speaker: Michele Norris
2015
Theme: Resegregation in Post–Civil Rights America
Speaker: Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad
2014
Theme: Globalization in the Prison Industrial Complex
Speaker: Angela Davis
2013
Theme: Race and the Persistence of Social Inequality in Contemporary America
Speaker: Ta-Nehisi Coates
2012
Theme: The Quest for Equality: Empathy and Global Justice in a Divided World
Speaker: Rinku Sen
2011
Theme: Sustaining King’s Legacy: Social Justice through a Green Economy
Speaker: Van Jones
2010
Theme: American Culture and the Pursuit of Justice in a Global Society
Speaker: Patricia Williams
2009
Theme: The New Activism: Power, Global Citizenship, and the Path to Equality
Speaker: Kevin Powell
2008
Theme: Freedom and Self-Determination in the Global Era
Speaker: John Edgar Wideman
2007
Theme: Economic Disparity and Race: A Necessary Redress
Speaker: Naomi Tutu
2006
Theme: 50 Years After Montgomery: Is the Dream Deferred, Diluted, or Fulfilled?
Speaker: Juan Williams
2005
Theme: Micro-lending: Banker to the Poor
Speaker: Muhammad Yunus
2004
First Annual MLK Legacy Day
Speaker: Julianne Malveaux
