Wade Davis II

CEO

United States21 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • First LGBT inclusion consultant in the NFL
  • VP of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix
  • Served as national surrogate for President Obama
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Inclusion Strategy and Leadership Development within the Non-profit and Entertainment industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Inclusion StrategyLeadership DevelopmentCommunity Development

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TrainingEvent ManagementCommunity OrganizingNon-profitsFundraisingBoard GovernanceProgram DevelopmentCommunity OutreachVolunteer ManagementGrant WritingEvent PlanningBloggingCoachingGrants

About

I’ve spent my career in environments where performance is the only currency that matters—from NFL huddles to the C‑suite at Netflix. Most companies treat “culture” and “inclusion” as HR topics; I treat them as core business capabilities that determine whether people can actually do the best work of their careers. My background is a paradox that works. I’m a former NFL player who became the league’s first LGBT inclusion consultant, served as a national surrogate for President Obama, taught at NYU, and now lead inclusion strategy as a VP at Netflix. Across each chapter, the question has stayed the same: how do you build teams that trust each other enough to take smart risks and deliver outsized results under pressure? At Netflix, my work sits at the intersection of leadership development, inclusion, and business strategy. People join Netflix to help us -- Entertain the World, and they come with a real belief in our culture and values. My job is to help make that belief felt and real in the day‑to‑day—so the culture and values that attract people to Netflix are the ones they actually experience on their teams. I treat inclusion as a leader competency and a core business capability, not a moral scorecard or a set of HR programs. My team equips leaders, HRBPs, and GBPs with the skills, tools, and frameworks to lead inclusively, make better people decisions, and scale those behaviors across their organizations. We focus on a few practical mechanisms that have leverage—so inclusion shows up in how we hire, staff, develop, promote, pay, and make hard calls, not just in what we say we value. Earlier in my career, I advised organizations like the NFL and other professional leagues around leadership development and inclusion; today, I focus that same lens on Netflix—identifying the “invisible” barriers that keep high‑potential talent from performing at their peak and helping leaders remove them. At my core, I’m a servant leader who works directly with leaders to build the conditions where great people can do great work: clear expectations, honest feedback, and strong trust. I know from experience that a locker room and a leadership team aren’t that different—performance in both is a direct result of the standards, trust, and accountability people build with each other.

Experience

21 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs
Average Tenure
7 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

3 roles

Global Vice President, Inclusion Strategy

Promoted

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Inclusion StrategyLeadership Development

Vice President

Sep 2019Oct 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Inclusion StrategyLeadership Development

Advisor and Consultant

Jul 2018Oct 2023 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Inclusion StrategyLeadership Development

Google

Advisor and Consultant

Mar 2017Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco, California

Ysc consulting

Senior Consultant

Oct 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Imagine an organization that releases the power of its people, creates true meaning for all its employees, and lives its values whilst also being able to achieve its business imperatives.
  • We work with clients across their entire people agenda. This involves helping you get the right people into key roles, developing your people, benchmarking your level of talent, identifying potential and helping you put in processes to accelerate people’s growth so you have effective succession plans. We also help our clients develop high performing teams, implement business leadership development programmes and embed the values and culture necessary to achieve their business goals.
  • Core to our work is developing deep insight into individuals, teams and organizational cultures. We are distinctive in going below the surface and in creating interventions that drive real and profound transformational change whether at the individual or organizational level.
  • Our work tends to fall within these three main areas:
  • Individual – Our individual assessment and development work is what we’re best known for. We regard all individuals as unique with their own spike strengths and development areas. Our half-day biographical assessment methodology, aimed at senior leaders, is experienced as highly accurate and business focused by our clients and developmental and insightful by the individual being assessed. We also have a highly regarded coaching business, which is staffed by a mixture of full time consultants as well as associate coaches who bring specific skills.
  • Team – We work with intact teams on a wide range of areas. This includes creating high performing team culture, helping teams understand the leadership footprint they exercise within their business, as well as a variety of specific leadership development interventions.
  • Organization – We also work at the organizational level to help businesses identify the leadership capabilities they need to achieve their goals.

The you can play project

Executive Director

Sep 2013May 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • In his role as Executive Director of the You Can Play Project, an organization dedicated to ending discrimination, sexism, and homophobia in sports, Davis works to develop curriculum, programming, training, and conversations that are focused on inclusion and diversity. The You Can Play Project has partnerships and/or relationships with organizations and leagues including the NFL, NHL, MLB, MLS, CFL, and others.

You belong initiative

Co-Founder

Jan 2013May 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Nationwide

  • The YOU Belong initiative is a series of 4-day comprehensive sports instruction and leadership development clinics for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning) youth and straight allies that will be offered throughout the US quarterly. The initiative will be launched in Chicago July 25th through July 28th within the sports of basketball partnering with the NBA and WNBA.
  • This initiative will provide LGBTQA youth ages 14 to 24 around the country access to various sports, initially starting with basketball, allowing us to engage youth of all genders and sexualities. Our goal is to create a safe space where LGBTQ youth and straight allies can become well-rounded athletes, leaders, and human beings.

National football league (nfl)

Inclusion Consultant

Jul 2012Oct 2023 · 11 yrs 3 mos · New York, New York

  • Provider of Inclusion strategy and trainings for league, teams, players and coaches.
Inclusion strategyTrainingInclusion StrategyLeadership Development

Hetrick-martin institute

Assistant Director of Job Readiness/Career Exploration

Feb 2011Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Worked to help youth between the ages of 14 and 24 become financially independent and understand what it means to be an adult, as well as the importance of education.

Inmotion media marketing

Co-Founder

Mar 2005May 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

National football league (nfl)

Professional Athlete

Jan 2000Jan 2004 · 4 yrs

  • Former member of the Tennessee Titans, Seattle Seahawks and Washington Commanders

Education

Weber State University

BA — Marketing

Jan 1996Jan 2001

Overland High School

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