Madison Butler is a New Englander at heart but moved to Austin in 2017. Her work is focused around creating equitable spaces and creating scalable strategies to achieve psychological safety. She is an outspoken advocate for mental health, removing the stigma around trauma, DEI and the ability to be "human at work". She is passionate about facilitating hard conversations through storytelling, data and tough empathy.

She has a background in talent development and attraction paired with a deep knowledge of DEI and culture. 

Literary Agency: Serendipity Lit
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Speaking Representation: Gravity Speakers

Blue Haired Recruiter • Fairy Job Mother  • Equitable Org Design •  Travel Fanatic • Culture Queen • Retention Wiz • Startup Whisperer •  Belonging Strategist •  Keeping Austin Weird • Speaker • Hockey Fan • Anti-Racist AF • Queer AF • Black AF

"If you build it, they will come." 
Passionate about building cultures that attract and retain talent.



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Let's work.
Email: madison@bluehairedunicorn.com
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Rising Star

Ethnic Minority Future Leader 2020

Nichols College

GRAV®

Chief People Officer

Vice President, People + Impact

Blue Haired Unicorn, LLC

Madison is committed to deconstructing the status quo and rebuilding corporate America, one organization at a time. Her mission is to ensure that no one ever feels like corporate spaces were not made for them, and they can live, work, and exist out loud.

She is a start-up enthusiast and is passionate about building inclusive teams from the ground up with early stage companies. Madison is committed to helping change the narrative around what it looks like to be “human at work”, and hoping to help alleviate unconscious bias in corporate America.

Founder + CEO

Madison Butler is an experienced speaker who engages the audience through story telling, data and tough empathy. 

For speaking inquiries email madison@bluehairedunicorn.com

Some of their topics include:
- Race, Privilege, & Intersectionality
- Decoding the Code Switch: Surviving White Spaces
- Genderless Language + Inclusive Conversation
- Culture Fit is a Lie

As well as many other custom created talks for organizations, conferences and events.

Keynote Speaker

Black Speakers Collection

Founder

Gravity Speakers

Speaker

For(bes)The Culture

Member

Rolling Stone Culture Council

Culture Council Member

Triple B Community

Triple B is a community for queer folx by queer folx. We are committed to radical inclusion, safety, authenticity and queer realness. 

The world is non binary and representation matters.

We want to build community through education, virtual events, dialogue and dismantling heteronormativity.

Co-Founder, Owner

Seapine

An organization can only be as great as the culture it creates and nurtures for its employees. Seapine's MAKESPACE+ is a facilitated workshop that builds capabilities around inclusion, equity, diversity, respect, empathy, bias awareness, and non-harassment into your culture so that your organization can be more welcoming to all people.

Chief Operating Officer

Principal Curator and Facilitator

Rage2Rainbows

Established institutions are unlikely to change radically enough or fast enough to make everyone feel safe. 

The best way to create safer, more inclusive workplaces? Build them from the ground up.

Co-Founder

ByeByeBinary

Co-Host

Founder @ Black Speakers Collection | Blue Haired Unicorn 🦄 | Expert People Person | Permanent Black Woman | Speaker | Chief People Officer @GRAV| Equitable Org Design| Queer + Black AF | @CorprteUnicorn

Weimaraner Rescue of Texas

Hi! Thanks for visiting my profile!

A bit about me: I'm a former educator and dog/toddler mom who is passionate about equity. I love to be outdoors except when it's super hot, I'm a foodie who hates cheese, and I like cooking and reality TV. 

I love sharing my thoughts on recruiting and workplace culture on LinkedIn, as well as in my newsletter, Landed! (subscribe here: http://bit.ly/3J7tlEl), and on TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@bonniedilber)

I've been featured in publications including Huffington Post, Fortune, Business Insider, Forbes, and Time as well as on numerous podcasts and speaking events. My newsletter has over 50k subscribers, and I'm open to sponsorships. I have limited capacity for brand partnerships, but please reach out if you have an idea you'd like me to consider (http://bit.ly/3FiW0VP).

A bit about my day job: I lead Zapier's business recruiting team - marketing, support, people, finance, operations, sales, and legal - basically all of our non-technical roles. I do not personally recruit for any roles so I am not going to be the most helpful contact for you, but please check out our jobs page here: https://bit.ly/3GPV2jU

I have limited capacity to support jobseekers outside of the content I create here, on TikTok, and via my newsletter. I'm committed to equity in the hiring process and that means providing as much free support as I can - you can check out my Stan Store (http://stan.store/bonniedilber) where I will continually be adding free or low-cost guides and resources. 

If you want to work at Zapier, I encourage you to apply directly! Here are a few other tips: 
-Check out our jobs page - if it's not posted, it's not open. You can set up a zap to be notified of openings that align with your interests. We also have talent communities where you can share your interest.
-Do some research on us! I've got lots of posts on Zapier's culture as well as tips on our application process - please check them out!!
-Take our application process seriously - we care less about your resume and more about the skills you bring
-You can find links to support your application here: https://linktr.ee/bonniedilber

All opinions are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer.

Emory University

The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems

Rice University

Zapier

Led 7 person team that supports Zapier's business functions (finance, sales, marketing, people, operations, and support) and leadership recruiting, exceeding monthly hiring targets by 15%+.

Recruiting Manager 

Recruit for roles in our Support and Talent Acquisition departments.

Senior Recruiter

Catalyze Talent Collaborative

Partner with school systems, non-profits, and ed tech companies to provide talent and business development support.

Teach For America

Managed teams of 9-13 university recruiters (IC/Team Leads) to build partnerships and recruit for Teach For America's highly selective two-year program and internship/fellowships.

Senior Managing Director, National Recruitment

IDEA Public Schools

Lead a 30+ person team to fill 1500+ positions across 79 schools in Texas and Louisiana through a rigorous recruitment and selection process.

Vice President, Recruitment

Teach For America Oklahoma

Led talent development and program implementation for Teach For America across 5 cities in Oklahoma.

Vice President, Teacher Leadership Development

Senior Managing Director

Managing Director, Program

KIPP Houston

8th Grade English Teacher/Grade Level Chair

Recruiting Leader @ Zapier | Former Educator | Advocate for job seekers, equitable hiring practices, and making the workplace work for all of us!

Is your boss 'quiet firing' you?

In addressing systemic racism in the workplace, accomplished HR strategist Shereen Daniels pulls no punches.  
 
A gifted speaker, educator and entrepreneur, her direct, yet compassionate approach have seen her twice recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice and former winner of HR Magazine's Most Influential Thinker. 

As Managing Director of anti-racism advisory firm HR rewired (hr-rewired.com), Chair of her charitable foundation The African Diaspora Economic Inclusion Foundation (adeif.org) and Senior Advisor to Lansons (lansons.com), Ms Daniels is called upon as the go-to personality on both sides of the Atlantic to support executive board and senior HR leadership teams tackle the complex, nuanced and often uncomfortable dialogue surrounding racism in the workplace.   

📓 The Anti-Racist Organization: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace 

The first UK business book about systemic racism was published in May 2022, with over 100 Amazon reviews, it has consistently hit no.1 spots in Amazon’s Hot New Release, HR Training, Organisational Theory and Behaviour and Discrimination and Racism categories.  

Main insights: 

- It's impossible to hire your way into fixing this problem i.e. hiring more Black people, a mistake many organizations are still making.

- Without holding frequent space for executive board conversations about racism to build courage, confidence and racial literacy, it becomes difficult to build robust plans that stand up to public scrutiny. 

- Having the right language to talk about racism and utilising frameworks to help take meaningful action is a key differentiator. It takes skill and knowledge beyond just having lived experience - and it’s barely discussed in most general diversity and inclusion articles, books and whitepapers or accounted for in organizations who don't have access to senior level expertise. 

- There is a difference between transactional and transformational change. Most organizations struggle to know the difference so end up focusing on the former, which leads to short-term low impact tokenistic initiatives. 

➡️ For a deeper dive into how others are applying the principles from the book into their workplaces, visit Shereen’s YouTube channel to watch the Turning The Page with The Anti-Racist Organization discussion series - https://www.youtube.com/@Shereen_Daniels

➡️ To find out more about her work visit https://shereen-daniels.com/

➡️ To have Shereen speak at your next company or network event contact michelle@shereen-daniels.com

Growth Tribe

2-Day Growth Marketing 

2-Day AI for Marketing and Growth Course

Institute of Directors (IoD)

London South Bank University

University of Central Lancashire

HR rewired

HR rewired is an advisory firm specialising in anti-racism and racial equity. With a mission to unlock over one million global conversations about race by 2025, we have partnered with organisations such as Vodafone, Totaljobs Group, Wagamama, Prostate Cancer and Duke of Edinburgh Awards to advance anti-racism and racial equity in the workplace.

- Education around racism: We provide education and awareness for executives, HR and colleagues who are uncomfortable talking about race. This can be keynotes to empower audiences or off sites for boards and employee resource groups. 

- We facilitate conversations for employees to create a safe space to speak and listening forums for Black colleagues to share their truth.  

- We provide independent audits to understand how companies are doing internally. Boards often think they don’t have a problem because they are open, welcoming and color blind but they have no idea what the data looks like and how racism manifests in their organisation. 

If you think we can help, do get in touch via www.hr-rewired.com or even better or email us directly at hello@hr_rewired

Managing Director

African Diaspora Economic Inclusion Foundation (UK)

The African Diaspora Economic Inclusion Foundation (ADEIF) was registered as a charity on 29th November, founded by bestselling author and Managing Director of HR rewired, Shereen Daniels.
Our ground-breaking charity works to specifically address issues of economic inequality for members of the African Diaspora, in particular supporting and uplifting African heritage female entrepreneurs and business-owners.
Through providing grants and hosting events, we provide both financial and non-financial support to help viable African Diasporic businesses to thrive. Lack of access to finance, funding and network are consistent challenges affecting women business owners. These issues are exacerbated for Black women who face exclusion because of both gender and race and ADEIF exists to help remove those barriers.

Chair

House of Commons

Accelerated programme for select candidates with potential to be future MPs.  Programme includes insight and training into:
	How Parliament works including the role of Ministers
	Media awareness 
	Exploring the practicalities of political leadership

Parliamentary Leadership Programme

Hub Dot

An events networking company privately owned valued at £2.2m.  Appointed by the Founder/CEO on an interim basis to prepare for next phase of international growth.   Advised on competitive analysis, market opportunities, business model options and realigned team structure.

Strategy & Commercial (Interim Consultant)

Caffè Nero

Reporting to the Global HR Director, setting and delivering the UK HR strategy to support a coffee business that’s the UKs 3rd biggest coffee chain and 4th biggest on the European Coffee Market.  £277.3m turnover with a headcount of 5,134 employees (81 nationalities) within 625 stores across the UK and Head Office. 

Responsible for a team of 14 at Caffè Nero; Head of HR (Stores), 7 Regional Business Partners, Head of Resourcing, 2 Resourcing Advisors, ER & Welfare Manager, HR & Benefits Advisor and HR Assistant.  
Key deliverables:

	Performed job analysis, including evaluation, an internal comparison and external survey (Towers Watson) to identify Caffè Nero strategic market pay position and submit Board recommendations for annual salary reviews, ad hoc salary reviews, gender pay rationalisation and new hire salary bands.
	Increased unique visitors by 2,000 on average per month and applicant to interview conversion by 40% by developing the Caffè Nero employer brand, partnering with Brand and Marketing to create online collateral and targeted job adverts. 
	Rationalised the recruitment spend of £200,000 at Caffè Nero, reviewing analytics to inform on performance of different recruitment channels.  Resulted in reducing cost per applicant by 30% and cost per offer by 26% and a £50,000 annualised saving on head office agency fees.
	Kept abreast of market trends and competitor activity to inform on strategic people plan for FY16/17 and FY17/18.  Resulted in improving pay position for 1,250 London based employees that led to a cumulative decrease in turnover by 18%.
	Tendering and commercial renegotiation of non-salary cost lines within the HR budget at Caffè Nero to produce a net saving of £206,000 (via a new life insurance, health insurance and employee benefits platform) in Y1 and subsequent flat budget for Y2 and Y3.

Head of HR

Achibé

Personal development/coaching cards to to turn creative aspirations into realistic goals. 

www.achibe.com

Metropolitan Pub Company

A subsidiary of Greene King PLC, created with the buyout of two independent private equity backed businesses; Capital Pub Co. and RealPubs to create Metropolitan Pub Co.  71 premium food led London businesses, headcount of 1,500 and £84m in turnover. Reporting to the Group HR Director (Greene King).

Responsible for team a team of 5: HR Business Partner, Recruitment Manager, x 2 L&D Managers and Events and Office Manager.

Key deliverables:
	Harmonised remuneration terms and conditions for Capital Pub Co and RealPubs as part of a Greene King acquisition (the two private equity backed independent pubs merged to become Metropolitan Pub Co.).
	To support capex proposals for new site bids, produced workforce plans to identity risks, build what-if scenarios and cost models.  Successful with winning 70% of our bid submissions.  Tasked with delivering blended 20% returns by Year 3 - 50% of new openings showed positive returns in Years 1 and 2.
	Introduced revised performance related pay scheme for General Managers and Senior Operations Managers to ensure greater alignment with objectives (versus behaviours driven to maximise incentives).  
	Increased direct hire ratio by 40% (saving £260,000 in agency fees) and increased number of direct applications by 20%.
	Spearheaded the senior leadership development in collaboration with the Greene King Talent Director, of x 11 Operations Managers, x1 Director of Food and x 4 Executive Chefs at Metropolitan Pub Co. Resulted in the promotion of one Operations Manager to Operations Director and led to an 80% retention rate for remaining 10 Operations Managers and 100% retention for Exec Chefs over a two-year period.
	Successfully embedded of an online behavioural assessment tool that was used in recruitment process to assess candidates. Enabled consistent hiring in senior roles which decreased general management turnover in the first 12-16 weeks by 20%.

Hobbs Ltd

HR Manager

Gala Coral Group

Regional HR Manager - South East & South West

Carphone Warehouse

Senior HR Business Partner

Policy & ER Project Manager

Bestselling Author: The Anti-Racist Organization - Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace | Managing Director hr-rewired.com | Chair adeif.org | Senior Advisor lansons.com |  x2 LinkedIn Top Voice

Endeavour MAT

	Oversee the financial performance and risk management profile as a member of the Board of Trustees for Endeavour Mat Trust (a group of grammar and non-selective schools). 
	Reviewing balance sheets, authorising budget submissions to the Education and Skills Funding Agency.  Monthly monitoring and challenge to the Chief Executive Officer and Finance Officer on management of risk and appropriate mitigating action.

BEXLEY WOMENS AID

Kent and Medway Economic Partnership

The Kent and Medway Economic Partnership (KMEP) is the economic partnership for Kent and Medway which aims to drive forward economic growth and prosperity throughout the region.

KMEP is governed by a Board and chaired by the private sector, with membership drawn from business, local government, further and higher education.

	name		keywords	# followers	# posts	# engagements	eng. ratio	score
1.	Madison Butler 🏳️‍🌈🦄	🇺🇸	black trans ukraine	146,184	14	18,613	6.21%	17.33
2.	Bonnie Dilber	🇺🇸	remote black real estate	196,830	11	16,356	5.84%	16.42
3.	Shereen Daniels 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇬🇾	🇬🇧	black quote startup	90,867	10	1,999	4.69%	14.15

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