Our Story

The Silverene Group works to optimize organizational performance.

The Silverene Group’s Founder, Shaara, was born in India, raised in Nigeria, schooled in England, and lived in Greece before coming to the U.S. as a young adult married to a Puerto Rican. Shaara’s early life experiences as a guest in someone else’s country instilled a sense of curiosity, empathy, and recognition that the more diverse and different voices we have at the “table,” the richer and more meaningful the dialogue and outcomes. She also came to realize that we must ensure that we provide access, opportunity, and support to lift up the voices of people who have been prevented from fully participating.

That fuels the energy to create a welcoming work environment where all staff, members, clients, vendors, and other stakeholders recognize the value and strengths they and their team members bring to the table and where they can proudly fully live their own diverse traits and experiences. We are proud to have deliberately curated a team who fully represents the richness of diversities that exist in this country and beyond.

The Silverene Group was established in 2016 with Shaara’s family’s entrepreneurial spirit at its core. Following in the lead of generations past, Shaara left her successful career to help others build for change. Inspired by Shaara’s great-great-grandfather, who built his business in their family home called Silverene, The Silverene Group continues his legacy of purpose, grit, passion, impact, and building a sense of community

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What Our Clients Say

  • "The Silverene Group has added to the success of our organization in many ways: they created and implemented a robust and inclusive process which resulted in a culture work plan that we could execute to integrate our values and strengthen our culture; and they partnered with the senior leadership team to coach us as a group to work and lead more inclusively. They are outstanding partners to have on your side, and I recommend them with confidence."

    Katy Davis, COO, National Association of Corporate Directors

  • "Shaara’s coaching during an exciting leadership transition was critical to my success. [She] shaped our discussions to provide me with straight-forward, actionable and concrete recommendations."

    Jennifer Ives, Senior VP Security & Software, 3Pillar Global

  • "I have worked with some good coaches but what distinguishes Fiona from others is her own corporate experience and her ability to create an effective comfortable and safe space. She has been quite insightful and used her skills and expertise to help me see myself from a completely new perspective. While being always supportive and sometimes radically candid, she was always able to provide both a healthy and humorous debate to my decision making."

    Rebecca Varghese, Global Vice President and Controller, International Justice Mission ®

  • “Shaara has helped greatly in moving us forward to improve the working conditions, and to create a better engagement with all of our employees.”

    Senior Executive, Federal Agency

  • "Shaara and her team have been consistently engaged to implement change management across the organization and develop a new, more effective way of doing business. With her guidance and direction, we created new initiatives, strategic goals and new competencies for the employees to better assist our customers. She is a wonderful asset."

    Kimberly Newman, Director, Division of Workforce Development, ASPR

  • "The level of attention and customization we received from The Silverene Group is to be commended. Their facilitated program helped our leaders and staff develop common understanding around inclusion, diversity, unconscious bias, and also learn about the impact of biases and micro-inequities. The team created a program that adapted to our needs, and pivoted when necessary to ensure that the training program would effectively align and support our overall DE&I strategy."

    Patricia Beeson, Vice President Human Resources, AAPA