Yen Ling Shek integrates research and best practices to provide data-driven and market-based insights to leading organizations. Based jointly in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Yen Ling partners with clients across industries to build forward-thinking, inclusive and effective executive teams. She has a particular focus on assessing, developing and advising organizations undergoing transformational change. Recent work includes organizational and leadership assessments, experiential leadership training and equitable search advisory. Yen Ling has more than 20 years of diversity, equity and inclusion professional experience. She joined Russell Reynolds Associates from UCLA, where she was a residential life assistant director of research and adjunct faculty at California Lutheran University in the counselor education program. Previously, she worked at the Talent Advisory Board as a senior analytics and training consultant supporting DE&I efforts. She began her career in community programming and leadership development at the Greenfield Intercultural Center and Pan-Asian American Community House at the University of Pennsylvania.