Sharon Bueno Washington
Director, MICHL
Sharon Bueno Washington, founder of Bueno Consulting, is an organizational development consultant with 30 years of experience. She has worked in every major industry in both the public and private sectors. She is a certified executive coach and a trained mediator, with extensive group and process facilitation experience.
In pursuit of creating healthy, high-functioning organizations, Sharon offers consulting services in the areas of leadership development, diversity equity and inclusion, organizational change, team dynamics, cultural competence, and cross-cultural dynamics.
She has consulted to a wide array of clients, from more than 35 countries, across the US, and in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Trinidad & Tobago, France, Spain, Austria, and England.
Sharon launched her consulting career after several years as Director of Organizational Development at a high-tech engineering firm. She took her experience, developing practical solutions for leaders and individual contributors, and used it to create highly experiential, dynamic, and competitive solutions for her clients.
Over the last thirty years, Sharon has shared her expertise on developing and implementing diversity initiatives as a featured speaker at several conferences including the Clemson University National Professional Women’s Seminar and the National Conference on Diversity at Cambridge College. She has been interviewed by the Boston Globe and was featured in a special supplement called “Working Together−Exploring Diversity in the Workplace.” Sharon has appeared as a special guest of WBZ Radio on one of Boston’s leading talk shows to share her insight on the effects of diversity training initiatives.
Since 2015, Sharon has been a member of the coaching team in support of doctoral students and an Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and in 2018 joined Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in a similar position. In 2022, Sharon was named Director of the Massachusetts Institute for Community Health Leadership, a program of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
Over the last five years, during what can only be described as tumultuous times, in response to incidents of injustice and divisiveness, Sharon has designed and facilitated gatherings such as town hall meetings and listening circles, for communities to come together and engage in dialogue, healing and community action.
Sharon holds a Bachelor of Science degree and has studied at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the Universities of Madrid and Salamanca in Spain. Sharon speaks Spanish conversationally, grew up in New York City, and now lives in Boston.