Selena Rezvani

Selena Rezvani is a recognized consultant, speaker and author on women and leadership. A VP of Consulting and Research at Be Leaderly, Selena uses workplace culture assessments to help corporate clients be more inclusive and welcoming to women. She’s also the author of two leadership books targeted at professional women - the award-winning Pushback: How Smart Women Ask—and Stand Up—for What They Want (Jossey-Bass, 2012) and The Next Generation of Women Leaders (Praeger, 2009).

Selena’s mission is to help high-potential women reach the top echelons of leadership, a goal she achieves through by working with senior leaders to position an inclusive workplace as a competitive business advantage. Her experience and success in the women and leadership arena makes Rezvani a frequent resource for news media and an in-demand business speaker. She has been quoted, interviewed and profiled by Oprah.com, The LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ABC, and NBC. She was a regular commentator on NPR’s syndicated The 51% Perspective and wrote an award-winning column on women and leadership for The Washington Post. Outside of her consulting programs, Selena promotes her message through presentations to corporate audiences, at universities and associations, and at many international conferences, including TedX, Harvard, Microsoft, Princeton, J&J, Apple, Northrop Grumman, LinkedIn and many others.

Prior to joining Be Leaderly, Selena served on Deloitte’s Greenhouse Experience team, where she led teams through how to foster better diversity and collective intelligence. Selena also led the assessments practice at Washington, DC-based Management Concepts, where she administered and coached clients on personality, leadership, and aptitude measures. Selena has led numerous workplace culture research campaigns and studies on women in the C- suite, millennials, managers and negotiating habits, which have been covered by international media.

Prior to her 3 years at Management Concepts, Selena worked as a senior member of the consulting team at the Great Place to Work® Institute, the firm best known for ranking Fortune’s 100 Best Places to Work® in America list. While at the Institute, Selena consulted widely on issues of organizational change and workforce development, working with Fortune 1,000 and non-profit organizations internationally and across many industries including Monster.com, Novartis Corporation, DaimlerChrysler, Inova Health System, and Brooks Brothers. Client services included focus group facilitation, employee opinion surveys, 360º assessments, leadership workshops, and customized survey assessments.

She has B.S. and Master of Social Work degrees from New York University, and has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. Selena lives in Philadelphia with her husband Geoff and 6-year old boy/girl twins.