Chuck Shelton, founder and CEO of Greatheart Consulting, spoke about male allyship at the recent Women Leading Travel & Hospitality Virtual Exchange. In this video clip from the session, he delves into how an active and engaged male ally behaves.

For more than 30 years Shelton has honed a unique expertise in engaging and equipping executives — particularly white male leaders and their colleagues, together — to grow their global business through inclusive leadership. This specialty led to the publication of his groundbreaking book, “Leadership 101 for White Men.”

Shelton has developed inclusive leaders through global D&I projects on strategy, culture, engagement, talent, learning and sales at Aetna, Alaska Airlines, Avon, Capgemini, the Johnson Space Center, Key Bank, Liberty Mutual, Lush Cosmetics, PitchBook, Schreiber Foods, Ziply Fiber, and in more than 80 other organizations. He designed and directed the first Study on White Men Leading Through Diversity & Inclusion. Corporate sponsors for this 2012 research included Alcoa, Bank of America, Exelon, Intel, Marsh & McLennan, PepsiCo, PwC, and Walmart Stores.

Earlier in his career, Shelton negotiated, designed and managed the first research project to benchmark 130 diversity practices in 20 leading firms in the technology industry, commissioned by Microsoft. In his first multicultural management job, he directed a social service agency for refugee resettlement across California, leading a team of 30 from five nations.

Shelton holds a master’s degree in ethics from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a bachelor’s degree in conflict studies from The Evergreen State College. He’s certified to facilitate 12 leadership development programs. Since 1981, Shelton has spoken, consulted, coached, trained, researched and written on leadership development and global diversity and inclusion internationally through more than 400 presentations and projects.

Watch the full conversation on male allyship, as well as the rest of the sessions from the May Virtual Exchange here.