
- Passionate
- Curious
- Focused
- Life-long learner
Lia Shigemura
Senior Consultant
Lia is a passionate and effective catalyst for positive change. She is adept at elevating leaders’ and teams’ effectiveness and maximizing potential through conscious self-awareness and deliberate action.
Prior to Enact, Lia held a variety of leadership positions within human resources, diversity and inclusion, and line organizations in a broad range of firms worldwide. She was Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at ABM Industries, and was responsible for professional-development strategy. She has also led organizations within the public and non-profit sectors.
Lia has a BA in Psychology from the University of Puget Sound, Seattle, and an MA in Cross-cultural Counseling from the University of Wisconsin. She contributed her time and skills to numerous non-profit organizations, including Horizons Foundation, for which she served as chair of the board of directors; Asian Women’s Shelter, of which she was a founder and director; and API Wellness Center, for which she was board president.
- One of Lia’s creative diversity & inclusion efforts at ABM Industries involved working with CBS Television to feature the value & richness of the employees on “Undercover Boss.” This particular segment had the highest viewership of the season.
- In the arena of civil rights, Lia worked to secure recognition and redress for Americans of Japanese descent who were interned in American concentration camps during WWII.
- Lia’s first job in the SF Bay Area was as a geriatric social worker in San Francisco.
- In addition to her academic credentials, Lia graduated from bartending school and is a certified mixologist.