Wendy Lewis is the creator of AllySHIFT™, a progressive and seismic platform for
advocacy and sustainable equity.  Additionally, she is the Executive Producer of the
award-winning documentary, “Beyond Their Years, The Incredible Legacies of Herb
Carnegie and Buck O’Neil.” Wendy is known for shifting the transactional to the
transformative and considers herself an evangelist for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Equity.  Her company, Wendy Lewis, LLC is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion practice
firm whose focus is empathetic leadership and "allyship sustainability".
She is the former Global Chief Diversity Officer and VP of Community Engagement for
McDonald’s. While there she launched the first-ever Global Gender Balance and
Diversity Strategy, as well as the “Diversity IS Inclusion” framework and “Food for
Thought: Moving Beyond Bias"; a progressive approach to the mitigation of negative
effects of bias. Her initiatives brought immediate value to McDonald’s and were adopted
globally. She was also at the forefront of some of McDonald's most visible programs
including flipping the arches for International Women’s Day.
Prior to McDonald’s, Wendy established a trailblazing 30-year career with Major League
Baseball, in which she became first-in-sports to lead HR and DEI roles and centralize
both disciplines at the Club level with the Chicago Cubs and later as a league-wide
practice. During her years with the Chicago Cubs, Wendy identified and developed
groundbreaking opportunities to integrate D&I throughout the organization’s workforce,
supply chain and community partnerships.
 
Her executive promotion to MLB’s Commissioner’s Office expanded the scope and
scale of her achievements. As SVP of D&I she developed and implemented MLB’s
Diversity Economic Impact Engagement, the Diversity Business Summit, the Executive
Development Program, and MLB’s Diverse Business Partners Program, the premier
supplier diversity program in sports!

Wendy earned her B.S in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and
her M.B.A from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern
University.
 
She is sought out as a coveted business leader, keynote speaker, panelist, trusted
advisor and educator. Wendy serves on the Board of Trustees for Clark Atlanta
University and the Chicago Sinfonietta.