SHI’s DEI team
and executive leadership

Building the key ingredients for our continued growth

and success — creativity, equity, and collaboration

within our diverse workforce

Meet SHI's DEI team

Our Diversity and Inclusion team ensures SHI works with a diverse slate of suppliers, and is committed to pursuing business opportunities with like-minded organizations.

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

“Over the last months, my focus has shifted to the broader SHI Global Community and 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 prespectives are represented. Ultimately, the best employee experience is one led by our employees.”

Ellen Mass
Vice President of Human Resources

“Supplier Diversity has been around for 50 years. More and more Women-Owned Businesses (WBEs) and Minority-Owned Business (MBEs) are the up-and-coming suppliers. Most of today's innovation is being done by small companies. And as the country's demographics is quickly changing, these very businesses hold the key to our nation's largest potential growth sector 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 woman owned businesses for our infrastructure and serving our clients’ needs.”

Romance Watson
Director of Global
Supplier Diversity

“I am passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive working and learning environment for our employees. 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 – DEIB and Employee Engagement

“Since joining SHI, I’ve been looking for direction within the DEI space as an African-American man. Within the last year, I’ve noticed the attention that SHI has shown their minority employees, and of course wanted to be a part of that direction. It’s extremely important to continue to progress in this space and grow the program to the best of my ability within my time here at SHI. I’m thankful to Senior Management for giving me an opportunity to become a leader within this program to provide the direction that I also have been looking for from the start of my career.”

Robert Williams
DEIB Business Development Manager

We asked SHI's Diversity and Inclusion Team, What does SHI's DEI program mean to you?

Executive leadership

SHI's commitment to our DEI principles is 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 Collison. Embracing DEI as core to our organization, SHI's senior leadership actively participates in the events and discussions of all ERGs.