Ameena Y.Majid

Ameena takes a practical approach to helping clients with their impact initiatives by meeting them where they are in their journey. She helps identify and educate a client’s impact footprint; organize and grow programs; and provides practical implementation to navigate policies and reporting, all while never losing sight of the expectations of varied stakeholders or the details of the issues at hand. She’s a high level thinker that doesn’t lose sight of the future forward.

For more than 20 years, Ameena has helped clients navigate corporate and fiduciary governance and technical complexities of executive compensation and employee benefits for Fortune 20 to 500 companies, across a variety of industries. She understands that compensation and benefits form the core of a talent retention strategy. She helps her clients provide incentives that align with their company values, and foster a culture that helps them attract, and more importantly, retain their employees. As ESG continues to be a topic for boards of directors, the link to executive compensation is being discussed and scrutinized. Ameena assists companies with designing competitive executive compensation and employee benefit offerings that are compliant, competitive, and communicated in ways that protect the company, and make employees feel invested in the company's success. When an employment relationship ends, and severance is offered, Ameena strategizes with her clients to design a severance package tailored to the client’s particular interests at issue in the termination.

Further, as an advisory board member to, and impact investor in, Able Made PBC, a Delaware B corporation and sustainably forward fashion brand, Ameena brings a business, growth and pragmatic mindset to her legal practice as companies respond to heightened expectations for integrating both environmental and human rights decisions into cultivating ethical supply chains.

This experience, her public company practice and proxy work, combined with her prior anti-modern slavery advocacy work with Stop the Traffik USA, gives Ameena a unique background and heightened sensitivity to advice on impact and ESG disclosures, associated legal risks, governance considerations, due diligence approaches to support disclosures and the link to executive compensation.

Ameena is also the founder and co-chair of the firm’s Impact and ESG practice group. In this role, she leads a dynamic trans-disciplinary group that is at the forefront of providing integrated advice and counsel on implementing practical ESG and related multi-stakeholder principles into a long-term business strategy that builds resiliency.

Ameena's approach to her practice was formed in her childhood. As the youngest of immigrant parents, she was raised between two cultures that did not always externally align. This background has made her an observer, and she takes in information before stepping into any situation to meet people where they are. Ameena is also the sister to a disabled brother. These roles have given her a deep sense of empathy and an ability to see the nuances of any situation or person. Ameena's empathetic nature combined with decades of experience in the counseling practice enables her to quickly sift through the substance, process, and emotion of a given matter or situation. As a counselor, Ameena adheres to the basic tenets of respect, seeking to understand the larger business context and goals, and listening first to guide her clients.