Our mission is to make sure that no one falls short of their potential for success because they are not seen & heard.

Wokie Nwabueze

CEO & Founder

At The Seen & Heard Project®, we have two goals - to center DEI work on empowering marginalized communities and to create workplaces of belonging.

We know that creating conscious, inclusive organizations takes commitment and hard work. We also know that your organization's culture begins and ends with your people. That's why we make it our mission to do the transformational work that goes deeper than simply showing employees what to do. We help them overcome the barriers that stand between where they are at this moment in their professional development and their ability to live your values and lead from a place of authenticity, empathy, self-possession and drive.


About Wokie Nwabueze, Esq.


Wokie Nwabueze is the Founder and CEO of The Seen & Heard Project®, an award winning consultancy and educational platform created to help innovative organizations build cultures of belonging. (Read about one of our award-winning engagements here.)

Wokie’s extensive research on the intersection of identity, power, communication, and leadership and twenty years of experience as a hands-on practitioner is the foundation of her consulting, advisory, and coaching work. Through it, she has successfully supported Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, and social change organizations in navigating complex human dynamics and creating cultures where employees from underrepresented identify groups are seen, supported, and advanced. Her clients have included IBM, Spotify, ITV, W+K, MetLife, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Associated Black Charities, the NYC Department of Education, and numerous private equity firms and media platforms.

Before founding The Seen & Heard Project®, Wokie held several senior organizational positions, including her role as Prudential Financial’s Vice President of Strategy in their office of Global Business Ethics, Integrity, and Employee Dispute Resolution where she was recruited in the wake of a class action discrimination lawsuit to innovate its first-ever workplace integrity strategic plan and employee conflict resolution office to build a culture of integrity, inclusion, and civility impacting 40,000 employees and independent sales agents globally. Her foundational strategic leadership was instrumental in Ethisphere’s acknowledgment of Prudential as one of the world’s most ethical companies.

Early in her career, Wokie practiced corporate law at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman and worked with a prominent women's advocacy organization litigating on behalf of victims of gender violence.

Wokie received her BA from Wellesley College and her JD from Columbia University School of Law. She sits on the Board of Cornell’s University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations's Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution.

Areas of expertise include:

o Inclusion, Diversity, Integrity, and Equity Strategic Planning

o C-Suite and Leadership Organizational Culture and Climate Advisory

o Global Culture Change Initiatives

o Workplace Conflict Resolution – Certified Organizational Ombudsman

o Diversity Crisis Management – Restorative Practices, Facilitation, Qualitative Research

o Leadership Development, Anti-Bias, and Communication Coaching & Training

o Diverse Employee Retention & Engagement

o Safe Space Reporting System Design

o Training Design and Delivery

o Public Speaking

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