Lisa Lambert is one of the very few Black women in the venture industry. Lambert currently heads the venture effort of National Grid, a UK-based utility giant, but she's had a more than 20 year career in the industry, much of it at Intel. Her career has given her an opportunity to understand why the venture, startup, and tech industries are so lacking in diversity; partly, it's because they value fast decision-making and homogeneity enables that, she told Business Insider.