SHI’s DEI Team & Executive Leadership

Building the key ingredients for our continued success, reflective of our diverse workforce.

The members of SHI’s Diversity & Inclusion Team seek to enhance business opportunities with organizations whose corporate objectives include supplier diversity. Our Diversity Team brings broader, fresh ideas and new perspectives to our workforce and leadership.

See what SHI's Diversity & Inclusion Team thinks of the DEI program >>>

“Over the last months, my focus has shifted to the broader SHI Global Community and toward applying my background in Project Management, Leadership Development, and DEI to the employee lifecycle, creating safe and collaborative environments that produce impactful and targeted best practices for success, while ensuring all experiences and perspectives are represented. Ultimately, the best employee experience is one led by our employees.”

ELLEN MASS
Sr. Director of Employee
Engagement and Culture

“More and more Women-Owned Businesses (WBEs) and Minority-Owned Business (MBEs) are the up-and-coming suppliers. As the country's demographics are quickly changing, these very businesses hold the key to our nation's future as the largest potential drivers of growth in our economy. My pledge is to take SHI beyond our halfway mark to a billion dollars in diversity spend, to continue focusing our efforts to buying, supporting, and mentoring minority and women-owned businesses for our infrastructure, and to serving our clients’ needs.”

ROMANCE WATSON
Director of
Supplier Diversity

“I am passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive working and learning environment for our employees by creating a culture that genuinely welcomes new perspectives – all while appreciating individual similarities and differences. As an African American woman, it is important to me that I ensure all voices are heard, because everyone matters!”

TAKEYSHA BASKERVILLE
Manager of Employee
Engagement & Culture

“Creating a workplace where people of all different backgrounds feel safe, welcome, and included is so important. Everyone deserves to have their voice, ideas, and experiences shared. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is something to be celebrated every day. It is through DEI that we learn, grow, and develop into better employees and better people.”

KAITLYN BRENNAN
Employee Engagement
and Culture Specialist

SHI's commitment to our DEI principles are upheld and championed at the highest organizational levels, including SHI's President and CEO, Thai Lee, Senior Vice Presidents Celeste Lee and Melissa Graham, and Senior Vice President of Public Sector Sales, Denise Verdicchio.