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ERIKA J. MCMULLEN

Erika is founder and president of Moxie Consulting Group. Her passion is helping people create high performing teams and inclusive workplaces. She uses her experience in health care and human resources to provide innovative solutions on diversity, inclusion, and organizational development. Most recently, Erika has served as a consultant to Maryland Hospital Association, Metronome, Johns Hopkins Medicine, The Nature Conservancy and Vanderbilt University. Erika has worked at the nation’s leading organizations. She launched the Cultural Competency Champion Program and expanded the hospital’s only cross-departmental Mentoring Program for Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; developed employer programs for the Robert Wood Johnson

Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality initiative; and pioneered Cincinnati MD Jobs, one of the first nonprofit physician recruitment initiatives in the country for the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky/SE Indiana region at innovative nonprofit, The Health Collaborative. She launched new medications and managed sales territories at Pfizer Inc. Erika is an organizational consultant, workshop facilitator, and public speaker. Erika’s work on pediatric health equity is published in BMC Pediatrics, and the findings presented at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care and Xavier University of Louisiana’s Health Disparities Conference. Her workplace mentoring research was selected for presentation by the 2019 International University Forum for Human Resource Development at Nottingham Trent University in England, U.K. With Erika’s contributions, organizations have been named as one of “America’s Best Employers for Diversity” by Forbes Magazine, received the “Innovations in Diversity & Inclusion" award from Profiles in Diversity Journal, been listed as “Best in Class” by the Institute in Health Management, and been selected by Diversity, Inc. as one of the nation’s “Top 10 Hospitals and Health Systems.” Erika is a Society for Human Resource Management Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) and a Certified Master DISC Behavioral Analyst. She is completing her Master of Arts in Education and Human Development at The George Washington University in Organizational Leadership and Learning. In addition to graduating cum laude from Florida International University with a bachelor’s degree in Health Services Administration and a minor in Marketing, Erika earned a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Clinical Research from the University of Cincinnati. You will find Erika and her husband near Richmond, Virginia driving their three children to dance class and basketball practice.