Maaike de Bie strives to help more women find their wings at Great Britain’s easyJet. Cheryl Foy is pushing for more women general counsel in Canada. Aviva Will has found a way to press for gender equity at U.S. law firms. Nimesh Patel in the U.S. and Stephanie Boyce in the U.K. are working on goals to increase the law profession’s diversity and inclusion in all areas, including social mobility.

In-house counsel, outside counsel, ­corporate investment expert, professional association executive—all lawyers and all part of a global corporate movement toward more equality in the law. They are working in different ways, with different companies and organizations, in different countries, in different parts of the profession. But all are focused on the same grand goal—diversity and inclusion.