Diane T. Ashley has been implementing transformative initiatives for diversity, equity, and inclusion in recruiting for corporate, nonprofit and government organizations for 20+ years. Her entire career has been fueled by a passion for translating corporate desire for increased diversity and inclusion into actionable strategies that fully engage organizations, top to bottom, through innovative approaches to the educational experiences that can lead to the establishment of inclusive behaviors.

Diane served as Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s (FRBNY) founding Chief Diversity Officer, and launched their Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Her unit served as the operational model for the other Banks of the Federal Reserve System. Upon passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, Diane served as the FRBNY Director of a congressionally mandated unit created to increase and monitor progress of minorities and women in the workplace and the community. Diane left the Bank in 2019 to launch DTA Diversity Counts, a DEI Advisory firm.

Prior to her work at FRBNY, Diane held several leadership roles at Citigroup. There, she relaunched Citi’s supplier diversity department for minority-, women-, disabled-, and veteran-owned businesses seeking work with Citi. Working across businesses at the bank, she increased spending with diverse suppliers from $400M to more than $1B.

Diane holds a M.Ed. in Human Resources from Boston University and a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law. She earned a B.A. in French from Yale University, with a year of study abroad at the Sorbonne.  An active leader previously on 6 not for profit boards, Diane currently serves as  Advisory Board member of Mill Road Capital’s Progressive Governance Fund  and the Rutgers University School of Business. She is an award winning and frequent speaker on business and transformation in the United States and abroad.