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WHAT IS AllySHIFT™
AllySHIFT™ is a faith based social leadership model.
AllySHIFT™ is a powerful framework for individuals and organizations to build and reinforce inclusive, collaborative and SUSTAINABLE cultures of inclusion.
AllySHIFT™ is a format that shifts challenging conversations and situations into opportunities for discussions, team building, and problem solving for implicit bias mitigation and self-awareness.
AllySHIFT™ is a process for developing immediate plans and long term goals for focus and empowerment of people, places and things that have been marginalized and "valued less".
AllySHIFT™ is a tool that makes equity matter more. Including, "PULSE CHECKS", confidence building for inclusive leadership, ally sustainability and accountability.
AllySHIFT™ is a model for engaged allyship that meets people where they are while supporting their advancement to be bigger, better and bolder allies for others as well as themselves.
THE AllySHIFT™ MODEL
A transformative framework for the advancement of freedom.
THE AllySHIFT™ VISION
AllySHIFT™ is the superpower for those who pursue, promote, and provide for life, liberty, & sustained equity for all.
THE FOUNDER & CEO
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.
OUR WORK
NEWS YOU CAN USE
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH
"One night I went to church. They had a mass meeting. And I went to church, and they talked about [how] we could vote out people we didn't want in office....That sounded interesting enough to me that I wanted to try it. I had never heard, until 1962, that black people could register to vote....
When they asked for those to raise their hands who'd go down to the courthouse the next day, I raised mine. Had it high up as I could get it. I guess if I had any sense I'd a-been a little scared, but what was the point of being scared. The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember."
----Fannie Lou Hamer, in Modern America
Elections have consequences…they always have, they always will.
BE BIGGER, BOLDER, BETTER ALLIES TO SELF, EACH OTHER AND THE PLANET!
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Dear AllySHIFT™ community on this day of Black History Month I want to celebrate the founding principle of ALLYSHIFT™:
BE A BIGGER BOLDER & BETTER ALLY TO SELF, OTHERS AND THE PLANET!
This message on friendship is ideal for reflecting on our relationships with those we consider close to us and more importantly on how we respond and treat them:
Who is/are your best friend/friends?
Whose best friend are you?
Are you a friend to yourself ?
Thanks for reading and reflecting --
https://vision.org.au/the-word-for-today-reading/friendship/
AND THE WINNER IS....
I am thrilled to announce that our documentary, BEYOND THEIR YEARS: THE INCREDIBLE LEGACIES OF HERB CARNEGIE AND BUCK O’NEIL was selected as a finalist for the 2024 ESSENCE FILM FESTIVAL; during the 30th ESSENCE Festival of Culture in New Orleans. We Won the Social Impact Award!!! As the Executive Producer, I am proud and grateful to share the news and invite you to look at the trailer. Let me know if you would love to discuss and see more, I would love to hear from you.
AWARD
WINNER!
MLB Adds Negro League Stats to the Official Record
Major League Baseball has made a historic decision to include statistics from the Negro League in its official record. This move recognizes the immense talent and contributions of Black baseball players who were previously excluded the league due to segregation. The inclusion of these stats is a significant step towards acknowledging and honoring the legacy of these players.
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