Arin is the President of the newly formed consulting firm, Nextions, a new way of seeing and doing leadership and inclusion. She manages the firm’s Consulting Services division as well as the Leadership Institute. Prior to her position at Nextions, Arin served as the President of The Athens Group, a consulting firm that specialized primarily on the inclusion aspect of talent management. At The Athens Group, Arin developed and implemented strategic plans and programming (including lectures, presentations, trainings, and dialogue facilitations) on recruitment, retention, attrition, promotion, mentoring, marketing and client development issues in these various arenas, and she has also researched and written on these issues extensively. Arin has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University for several years where she taught classes on law and society.
Arin currently serves on the American Bar Association’s Joint Publishing Initiative. She has also served as a Council Member on the ABA Presidential Advisory Council, and she was a Commissioner on the ABA Commission on Women (2003-2006) where she co-chaired the Women of Color Research Initiative. She has been featured on NPR for her work on women of color in the legal profession and is cited often in online and traditional media as an expert in leadership and inclusion in workplaces.
Arin is a Fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago (class of 2003). She was recognized as a Rising Star by the Anti-Defamation League in 2010, and her column “Diversity in Practice” was recognized by the Herman Kogan Media Awards for excellence in journalism. Arin also serves on the Boards of Directors of several civic and not-for-profit organizations.
Arin lives in Chicago with a husband who has an amazing sense of humor and two children who have unlimited energy. She is an avid amateur photographer and has been “outed” in the Wall Street Journal as a professional addict of all things politics.
