Kay Formanek

Kay Formanek is a Lecturer at TIAS School for Business and Society, founder of Diversity and Performance (2014), and former Partner & Managing Director at Accenture (1989-2014). She specializes in inclusive leadership, unconscious bias mitigation, and organizational performance through diversity.

• Education:
  • MBA from Graduate School of Business Cape Town (with Duke Fuqua exchange)
  • Bachelor of Commerce (Honors in Business Economics) from University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Her research focuses on:

• Neuroscience foundations of unconscious bias
• Metrics-driven diversity performance
• STEM gender gap analysis
• Post-Apartheid leadership models
• Organizational biodiversity analogies
• United Diversity framework development

Recent publications show expertise in:

• 2021: Systemic bias mitigation in global organizations
• 2019: Neurological barriers to diversity implementation

As an advisor to INSEAD and Afrika Tikkun board member, she has developed:

• Global certification programs (Dubai, Singapore, Boston, etc.)
• Masterclass Inclusive Leadership curriculum
• Integrated Diversity Model and Virtuous Circle frameworks
• Neuroscience-based leadership coaching methodologies