Founders & Partners

  • Dr. Azza Karram, founding president & CEO

    Leadership Coaching

    Intercultural Management

    Strategic Partnerships

    Policy and Risk Analysis

    Strategic Planning

    Business Development

    Bio
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    Lilliana Ashman

    Executive Coordination

    Global Project Management

    Social Justice & Community Building

    Bio
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    Michelle Beech

    Brand Research & Development

    Strategic Planning & Team Building

    Creative Direction & Messaging

    Executive Communications

    Faith & Peace-making

    Bio
  • A woman with short brown hair, glasses, and pearl earrings, smiling and making a fist gesture, wearing a black and white patterned blazer against a gray and blue background.

    Lia Beltrami

    Cinema & Art

    Sport & Human Development

    Gender & Peace-making Films & Documentaries

    Bio
  • A smiling elderly woman with short, curly blonde hair wearing glasses on her head, earrings, a black top, and a mustard yellow patterned blazer.

    Henia Dakkak

    Public Health

    Humanitarian coordination

    Gender-based violence

    Women's empowerment

    Peacebuilding and mediation

    Team building and Coaching

    Bio
  • A smiling woman with white hair, wearing glasses, a black top, and a necklace, poses against a light background with a blue border.

    Grove Harris

    Eco-justice & Religious Diversity Educator

    Food Sovereignty

    Global SDG Advocacy

    Interfaith Partnerships United Nations

    Bio
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    Dr. Renee Hattar

    Peace Studies & Peacebuilding

    Music and Peace (Arts-based peace approaches)

    Interfaith / Interreligious Dialogue

    Arab/Oriental Christian Studies

    Religion & Society (including extremism prevention and social cohesion)

    Bio
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    Mike Morse

    Website design and maintenance

    Youth coordinator, Focolare Movement

    Operations Manager, Lenscape Media

    Bio
  • A woman with curly hair wearing glasses, a colorful patterned headscarf, and a matching dress with open shoulders, accessorized with a colorful beaded necklace.

    Dr. Fulata Lusungu Moyo

    Gender Analysis and Advocacy

    Mediation, Dialogue and Peacebuilding

    Restorative Justice Approaches

    Trauma Resilience Building and Healing

    Storytelling and Humour

    Review and Evaluation of Sea (sexual exploitation and abuse)

    Bio
  • A man wearing a black pinstripe suit, white shirt, and striped tie, looking directly at the camera.

    Jimmy Obuya

    Program Strategy, Resource Mobilization, and Management

    Digital Inclusion and Social Innovation

    Impact Communication and Advocacy

    Interfaith and Multireligious Engagement

    Community Inclusion, Feedback, and Participation

    Mentorship and Ethical Leadership Development

    Bio

  • Veena O'Sullivan

    Designing Business Strategy and Operations Advisement

    Humanitarian response and Analysis

    Sustainable development

    Impact investment

    Gender justice

    Women-centred leadership

    Bio
  • Smiling middle-aged man with salt-and-pepper hair, wearing sunglasses on his head and a blue collared shirt, posing against a neutral background.

    James Patton

    Effective Philanthropy

    Complex Systems Analysis

    Strategic Planning

    Multi-stakeholder Collaboration

    Empathy and Trust Building

    Dialogue and Reconciliation Practice

    Theory of Change and Impact Evaluation

    Bio
  • A woman with blonde hair, glasses, and a light complexion smiling with her tongue slightly out, resting her chin on her hand, wearing a dark blazer and white shirt.

    Dr. Christine Schliesser

    Religion in Public Spheres

    Religion and Sustainable Development

    Peace & Reconciliation

    Bio
  • A young man smiling, dressed formally in a suit with a tie and a gray sweater, standing in front of a vehicle with a logo on it.

    Jake Silberstein

    Communications

    Research

    Bio
  • Close-up portrait of a smiling woman with long, light brown hair, wearing a teal top, against a plain background.

    Deana Walker

    Social impact strategist 

    Media and entertainment 

    Strategic storytelling 

    Mentorship and coaching

    Bio

OUR PEOPLE

Lead Integrity was co-founded in 2024 by a group of globally diverse and highly skilled women professionals. Our experienced Board of Advisors brings a remarkable wealth of wisdom from serving the common good through a range of institutions, as well.

Our common commitment is to serve the common good of all peoples on – and for - a healthy and sustainable planet. We share a passionate commitment to serve with honesty, compassion and integrity.

We have experts available to organizations and different teams, to provide tailor made support in shaping or reshaping their strategies, approaches, fundraising efforts and programs, to enhance resilience for human rights, sustainable development, and peace and security.

We provide strategy and management consulting services, through functional practice areas. Our experts are women professionals who have built careers combining competence, integrity and efficiency.

  • Capabilities which are built on different kinds of international experiences but seasoned by diverse and complicated levels of cultural sensitivities - whether local or community based, national, or regional.

  • Capacities which are refined by decades of working with different kinds of issues and in diverse kinds of organizations.

  • Skills which are honed by working on multiple levels of intersectionality, and in different institutional settings, in diverse countries, often with tight deadlines.

  • Excellent communicators: public and motivational speakers, authors/writers and editors.

Council of Advisors & Experts

  • Gihan Abouzeid

    Bio

  • Gloria Abramoff

    Bio

  • Brian Adams

    Bio

  • Nelida Ancora

    Bio

  • Vicki-Ann Assevero

    Bio

  • Luciano Bizin

    Bio

  • Dr. PL de Silva

    Bio

  • Rev. Dr. Ganoune Diop

    Bio

  • Ms. Jean Duff

    Bio

  • Adam Hassan

    Bio

  • Mr Mohamed Hawas

    Bio

  • Dr Elizabeta Kitanovic - Broes

    Bio

  • Dr. Pauline Kollontai

    Bio

  • Rev. Cassandra Lawrence

    Bio

  • Dr. Evelin Lindner

    Bio

  • Martin Palmer

    Bio

  • Barry N. Perkins

    Bio

  • Vijay Poonoosamy

    Bio

  • Dr. Golnar Raissi

    Bio

  • Sara Silvestri

    Bio

OUR VISION

We believe that Leadership and Strategy should transform thinking and culture, support sustainable policies and practices, build bridges multilaterally, respect and collaborate with multifaith circles, and employ media and communications that avoid polarization, serve social cohesion and strengthen democratic accountability.

OUR MISSION

Lead Integrity’s expertise enhances accountable and democratic leadership, strengthens human rights-based coalitions and strategic alliances, redesigns media and communications strategies and methods to overcome polarization, and supports multilateral institutions.

EXPERTS LAUNCH LEAD INTEGRITY ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Launching Lead Integrity Management Consultants

A conversation among professional women of diverse faiths on their unique contributions towards improving a world of polarisation and dissonance, and creating opportunities for social cohesion

OUR VALUES

We believe that being able to serve a mission, can sometimes benefit from wisdom from outside of specific institutions/organisations, while sharing and honoring their values, and bringing considerable expertise in the forms of service, or strategic priorities, to which the organization(s) is/are committed.

We have learned that the resilience all people need to secure sustainability of basic needs and human flourishing, requires a profound transformation in the way we see, listen to, understand and serve each other.

Through our respective learning and diverse professions, we are convinced that all belief systems, faiths and traditions can be harnessed through our working to serve each and all, together. We believe this will be the tipping point towards the peaceful coexistence our earth, and all its peoples, desperately need.

We offer support to CEOs, COOs, organizations, teams and diverse groups who want to challenge or deepen their understanding of their own organizational competencies, as well as the environments they are operating in.

BUILD A CULTURE THAT IS POSITIVE, EQUITABLE AND RESILIENT.

Strong leadership is distinctive. Strong leaders recognize when it is time to adjust—culture, responsiveness and message. Using democratic values, we help you weave a socially cohesive culture into the fabric of your organization to help you succeed on a whole new level. You rise when your brand serves the common good.

Lead Integrity, a multinational strategy and management consulting firm, provides resources for coalition building, issue-based advocacy and marketing, research and analysis, and capacity building and training.

Our experts are women—informed by different faiths, with multiple competencies acquired over decades of leadership and service in diverse sectors, from different countries and in varied organizations and communities. We know culture.