The COMMIT Foundation is honored to announce that Mr. Charles Spearman has joined its Board of Directors. Charles is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Guggenheim Partners. He specializes in organizational and executive leadership and is responsible for the development and implementation of Firm-wide Diversity and Inclusion strategies and Equal Employment Opportunity compliance. Charles serves on Guggenheim’s - Steering Committee of the Women’s Innovation and Inclusion Network; the Veterans Initiative Advisory Committee; and the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.

Prior to joining Guggenheim Partners, he was the founder and principal of Tucker Spearman and Associates, Inc., an EEO and Inclusion management company. A frequent speaker before industry leaders on compliance and inclusion trends, Charles has been quoted by Time magazine and has presented at the Society for Human Resources Management SHRM and EEOC TAPS programs for public and private sector officials in designing EEO compliance programs. Charles has provided expert witness testimony on the integrity of harassment prevention systems and investigations in employment harassment litigation and has authored papers on these topics. His clients have included corporations, universities, government institutions and associations such as Guggenheim Partners, Footlocker, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen Group of America, the Mid-Atlantic Coca Cola Bottling Group, American University, DOJ, HUD, U.S.P.S., the Urban Land Institute, and the National Association of Attorneys General.

Charles is a founding member and trustee of the Alliance of Securities and Financial Educators (ASAFE), an alliance of volunteers that facilitates and provides design and delivery of securities and finance curriculum to diverse student and faculty audiences. Charles served on the faculty at Georgetown University’s Master of Professional Studies in Human Resources Management. He has taught courses at Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School. He is also a former President and Board Member of SCAN, Stop Child Abuse Now of Northern Virginia. Charles served as a senior advisor to a Commissioner at the EEOC and to leaders at the Texas Department of Commerce and the US Department of Commerce.