Fatimah Gilliam

Fatimah Gilliam, Esq. is an author, lawyer, consultant, public
speaker, and entrepreneur whose career combines expertise in
the law, diversity, human capital, leadership, stakeholder
engagement, and negotiations. She holds a law degree from
Columbia Law School, a master in public policy from Harvard
University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and an
undergraduate degree from Wellesley College.
Gilliam is the founder and CEO of The Azara Group, which
provides diversity and inclusion, leadership development,
negotiation, and strategy consulting services to Fortune 500
corporations, senior executives of billion-dollar businesses, and
industry thought leaders. She has previously been featured in
media including CNBC’s Power Lunch, NPR’s The Brian Lehrer
Show, Insider, and Yahoo! Finance.
Gilliam is a Black woman whose family has been in the United
States for nearly 400 years and fought in every American war,
including the American Revolution and Civil War. She is a volunteer attorney for Election
Protection and previously monitored vote counting in Florida.
She began her career as a corporate attorney on Wall Street at Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton LLP, worked for Citigroup overseeing campus diversity recruiting for all its U.S.
businesses, and oversaw corporate partnerships as the Head of Finance and Fundraising for
North America for the Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme.
Gilliam loves dancing, photography, bike riding, and swimming and has participated in several
charity marathons. Originally from California, she’s an avid traveler and has lived in Grenada,
France, and South Africa. She currently lives in New York City.