Javanni is a Senior Consultant at FTI Consulting in its M&A Strategy group and this year, they led the charge in advocating for the overhaul of FTI’s global communications policy to be inclusive of pronouns. Prior to this, the policy prohibited adding any fields to a consultant’s email signature, meaning LGBTQ+ and ally employees were unable to state their preferred pronouns without infringing policy. Currently, Javanni is advocating for extending lactation benefits to all new birthing parents, including trans men and non-binary employees who gave birth. These policy update processes will allow all employees, especially LGBTQ+ employees to feel included and move FTI toward making these updates the standard for new policies going forward. Since 2021, they have also served as the liaison from FTI to OPEN Finance, a collective of LGBTQ+ ERGs in New York City leading to networking opportunities for all ERG members and access to well-needed policy papers to help transform internal policies at FTI Consulting.
