Jessica Adebiyi

Proactive and meticulous leader and teammate with over 9+ years of experience in professional services. Focused on delivering decisive, forward-thinking and positive team leadership to enable production success with effective workflows. Prepared to take on challenging D&I position with opportunity to make lasting impact on company diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging success.

• Successfully designed a series of recruitment initiatives aimed at sourcing diverse candidates through firm's summer associate program including a Spring Break Diversity Clerkship for students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) within the firm's footprint and Pre-Law Diversity Scholarship, including client collaborations.
• Co-developed firm’s inaugural sponsorship program for underrepresented associates.
• Independently designed and rolled out unconscious bias training nationally to all employees, receiving perfect ratings.
• Revamped internal diversity resources for easier use and access by all firm employees.
• Initiated two key diversity-related initiatives which resulted in 20% employee engagement increase.
• Implemented internal marketing strategies which resulted in 40% increase in employee resource groups (ERG) awareness.
• Created departmental procedure manuals for budgeting and event management, and ERG guidelines.
• Developed inclusion guidelines to up-skill managers and recruiters on DEI best practices.
• Developed and manage firmwide DEI speaker series (approximately 6 events per year).

Early Pathways to Esquire, INC.: Created and launched Pre-Law Diversity Pipeline Program that allows undergraduate students and high school students who have not had the opportunity to gain exposure to the law to learn more about the legal profession, law school, and the admissions process. Program includes several initiates:

• 3-week job shadowing experience
• Virtual mentorship program
• Bimonthly panels & workshops