Matthew J Yazzie

Matthew J Yazzie is a seasoned organizational and behavioral scientist with a remarkable seventeen years of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Currently serving as the Strategic Director at Collective, Matthew is dedicated to implementing effective and measurable solutions in the diversity space.

He is renowned as the Founder & CEO of the Others Project, a unique initiative focused on real-time and open-source Diversity + Inclusion data.

Matthew's professional journey includes impactful roles such as COO at Jurispect and FWD.us, where he contributed to regulatory FinTech compliance and intelligent immigration reform, respectively.

His impressive tenure at Google, as part of the Global Ethics and Compliance founding team, involved managing risk assessments, compliance training, and technology procurement.

Matthew also collaborated with the co-founders of Twitter on projects related to Medium and supported The Kapor Center for Social Impact on various diversity initiatives.

As a prominent keynote speaker, Matthew has shared insights at prestigious events including NASA, AISES, UNITY, Culture First Summit, and SaaStr 2019.

He has been a sought-after expert on diversity and corporate culture, having been featured in Harvard Business Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Buzzfeed News, CNBC, and The Telegraph.

Further, Matthew contributes his expertise as an Advisor to Project Include, a non-profit driving diversity solutions in the tech sector, and to Spot, a company creating AI tools for reporting workplace issues.

Notably, he also serves as an Advisor for Diversity & Inclusion Programs at Women 2.0, a platform promoting gender equity and equality through direct action.

Matthew's academic background includes studies at Stanford University focusing on Management Science & Engineering, as well as independent thesis research at the University of Oxford on Technology Implementation in Rural Settings.