Lori
Mackenzie
Co-founder, Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab
Lori Nishiura Mackenzie is a speaker, researcher and change agent in creating inclusive organizations and empowering leaders unleash the power of their teams. She is co-founder of the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab, which conducts impact research. Lori collaborated with the California Partners Project, a non-profit co-founded by California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, to create two Board Playbooks at inclusiveboards.stanford.edu. Lori has served as lead strategist for diversity, equity and inclusion at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and executive director at the Stanford Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Fast Company and Inc. Lori brings 20 years of marketing strategy and business management experience at companies including Procter & Gamble, Apple, eBay and PayPal. Lori has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
