Invest Atlanta CEO and leadership

Bonika R. Wilson has over twenty years of leading businesses through complex organizational challenges. Wilson leads a team of seasoned consultants who pride themselves on leveraging analytics to offer innovative solutions to complex change initiatives, D&I, and strategic planning. Wilson capitalizes on her extensive banking and financial background to ensure project teams focus on creation of ROI for clients. Wilson’s leads the firms Diversity practice and is responsible for designing strategic, cross-departmental programs that create deeper culture, ethnic awareness and sensitivity. Wilson works with client’s businesses around the country to leverage diversity initiatives in order to strengthen the recruitment and retention of top talent and expand supplier opportunities. Wilson supports diversity and inclusion strategies for clients with a specific focus on community relations, corporate culture, workforce, minority, women, and multicultural marketplaces. Wilson partners with senior executives to cultivate an environment where inclusive decision-making is embedded throughout the organization to create a workplace and brand that is holistic and integrated. Wilson’s ability to develop and implement new initiatives and programs provide focus and accountability for diversity and outreach that reflect the changing demographics of the organization’s customers. Wilson’s track record of leading the design and implementation of sophisticated change management initiatives has afforded organizations long term and sustainable transitions. Wilson takes a systematic approach to enterprise effectiveness by helping teams understand that people management is at the core of structural and cultural change. Her extensive work with people management is rooted in the belief that identification of strengths, talents and abilities is the essence of inspiring optimal performance in teams. Her work includes developing dynamic and highly functional teams through leadership training, coaching, diversity and inclusion. Her pragmatic approach to psychological reasoning for cognitive bias allows teams and individuals to understand bias and remove barriers to truncate them. Wilson helps businesses and organizations successfully navigate change to achieve optimum results. Wilson’s areas of expertise include Diversity and Inclusion, Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership Development, Community and Stakeholder engagement.