Tai Wingfield

Senior vice president, employee engagement and change management - Weber Shandwick

Tai Wingfield is a senior vice president at United Minds, a Weber Shandwick management consultancy. With more than 15 years of experience, she leads the organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion offering. Previously, she served as the senior vice president of communications for the Center for Talent Innovation, a diversity think tank. There, she developed the infrastructure and strategy for the organization’s communications team, driving all earned and owned media and digital strategies, thought leadership positioning, data visualization strategy and message development. While at CTI, she also developed and implemented communications strategies to advance the diversity and inclusion efforts of the organization’s members. Wingfield co-authored “Ambition in Black and White: The Feminist Narrative Revised,” and CTI study, “Black Women: Ready to Lead.” Her leadership earned the team an honorable mention by PR Week for In-House PR Team of the Year. Wingfield previously worked as a member of Edelman’s Business + Social Purpose practice, overseeing diversity and corporate social responsibility initiatives for Advanced Micro Devices, De Beers, Microsoft Retail, Walmart and Xylem. She also previously worked at Weber Shandwick in the business marketing/corporate practice with accounts including Sealed Air Corporation, Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education and CIT.