Wade A. Hinton is an attorney, entrepreneur, and nationally-regarded expert on improving
diversity and inclusion outcomes in the workplace. He is the CEO and Founder of Hinton &
Company, a business services firm with a focus on culture and leadership. Hinton & Company
provides assessment, engaging leadership development sessions as well as bespoke leadership
offerings to support an organization’s cultural and engagement goals. Wade’s two decades of service
and experience in the private and public sectors has garnered national and global recognition
as the Board Connector and co-founder of Designation One – platforms connecting historically
underrepresented talent to inclusive nonprofit boards, gubernatorial appointments to state boards
and commissions by multiple administrations, inaugural member of Harvard’s Young American
Leaders Program and a Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund and was one of six
Americans named to GMF Future of U.S. German-Relations Task Force.