Meet Felicia
Exploring the Psychodynamics of Resistance to Diversity & Inclusion in Global Organizations
through practice and research.
Felicia A. Henderson
DEI Strategist and Consultant
Felicia A. Henderson is a consultant, researcher, educator, and keynote speaker who works with businesses and their leaders to design and implement transformative diversity strategies. Felicia helps global organizations identify and address the psychodynamics of resistance to equity and inclusion initiatives. She works with individual leaders and leadership teams to install reflective practices that enhance capacity for leading inclusive cultures.
Felicia began her career as a corporate lawyer in the New York and Paris offices of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where she practiced for a dozen years. She served on the firm’s Associate Liaison Committee and was a founding member of its Diversity Committee.
Felicia launched her independent leadership advising activity over ten years ago. In the second half of 2020, she served as external Senior Advisor to the taskforce charged with developing a broadened EDI strategy at INSEAD Business School.
Felicia has worked with clients ranging from large multinational corporations to start-up leadership groups. As an American who has worked in France since 2001, Felicia is equally at ease in English and French.
Expert Speaker
Felicia A. Henderson is a frequent speaker at corporate events and public conferences. She also has moderated or participated on numerous panels covering topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion; corporate governance; the legal profession; and cross-cultural leadership issues.
Past or ongoing clients for her speaking services include:
- Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Europe
- Generali
- GetAround
- Google Research EMEA
- International Women in Mining (IWiM)
- LVMH
- Milestone Systems
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals
- Turner & Townsend
- Western University
Among her public speaking appearances, Felicia has given two TEDx talks, linked in the Expert Perspectives tab. She is equally at ease speaking in English or French.
Educator
Felicia A. Henderson is a Lecturer and Programme Co-Director for the Advancing Diversity and Inclusion programme at INSEAD Business School. She regularly leads sessions on diversity, equity, and inclusion and leadership in open and company-specific Executive Education programs. She is a Contributing Practitioner Scholar to the John F. Wood Centre at Ivey Business School.
Felicia also lectures on corporate law and governance at Sciences Po Paris, where she has been an Adjunct Lecturer since 2011. She has offered courses on comparative equality law, organizational behavior, and inequality and social change at Sciences Po. Felicia has been a guest lecturer on law at EDHEC Business School and on leadership at HEAD Law School (Paris).
Felicia regularly produces business teaching materials on DEI and leadership topics, including two award-winning business teaching cases: Mirvac Building Balance and Yasmene McDaniel, Interim CEO.
She is the lead author of Chapter 4: The Ebb and Flow of US Diversity Management: 60 Years of Promise in the Encyclopedia of Inclusion (English version forthcoming). Felicia has also published in INSEAD Knowledge, Ivey Business Journal Insights, and the Sciences Po Law Review (Volumes 14 and 15).
Lifelong Learner
Felicia holds a master’s degree in Consulting and Coaching for Change from INSEAD Business School, awarded with distinction in 2017. She received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Duke University, with a double-major in French Studies (French literature) and International Comparative Studies. She received her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, Felicia served as Editor-in-Chief for Volume 20 of the Harvard Women’s Law Journal.
