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About Our Founder:
Michelle Goodwine, MPA, SHRM-SCP
Michelle Goodwine, MPA, SHRM-SCP, is the President & Founder of Diversity Advice Consultants. A Senior Certified Professional in Human Resources with a Master of Public Administration (SUNY Albany), she brings over two decades of leadership in diversity employment and supplier-diversity initiatives . Michelle has operated successful small businesses in New York and Texas since 2000, combining entrepreneurial acumen with deep expertise in equitable procurement and workforce development.
Her distinguished public-sector career includes service as Contract Compliance Officer for the New York State Housing Finance Agency and the New York State Medical Care Facilities Finance Agency, where she developed and enforced policies ensuring Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) received fair contract opportunities on multifamily housing and healthcare facility financings . Michelle also held senior roles in the Civil Rights Division of the Texas Workforce Commission—managing both the Employment and Housing sections—and designed process-improvement and diversity-recruitment strategies at the New York State Department of Health and Sage Colleges .
In 2018 she launched Diversity Advice Consultants to help organizations across sectors build inclusive cultures and elevate supplier diversity. Under her leadership, the firm delivers capacity-building workshops, DBE program compliance training, and strategic consulting services that empower both public agencies and private enterprises to achieve measurable DEI and small-business development outcomes.
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