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Carolin T. Seward is Vice President of Customer Experience and Fulfillment in the Data Platforms Group at the Intel Corporation. In her current role, she is responsible for delivering integrated data center solutions with the best customer experience for the lifecycle of the product. Carolin is driving new initiatives and service-based models to strengthen the collaboration between the business un...

Michelle Gadsden-Williams is the Managing Director and Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for BlackRock. She is an award-winning global diversity executive, author, activist, producer and philanthropist with more than 25 years of experience as an advocate for equality within corporate America and a thought leader around diversity and inclusion. Michelle is a seasoned diversity practiti...

Angie Grilliot serves as the Vice President, Talent Marketing for UnitedHealth Group, where she leads the talent brand and engagement efforts for the enterprise in pursuit of attracting and retaining the very best workforce. Angie joined the company in 1996 where she found a place to grow and develop. She has stayed because she continues to feel she is surrounded by a diverse, high-caliber team wh...

Sonia Cargan serves as the Senior Vice President, Chief Colleague Inclusion & Diversity Officer of American Express. In this role, Sonia is both a member of the CEG Senior Leadership Team and works closely with the Executive Committee to continue to build more awareness and provide the tools, resources and programming to drive meaningful change around racial inequality while ensuring American Expr...

In her position as senior vice president of Comcast Business for the Northeast Division of Comcast, Tracy Pitcher is a leader who celebrates the diversity of background, perspective, culture and experience that uplifts every aspect of her company. Knowing that a diverse, equitable and inclusive company is a more innovative and successful one, Tracy is actively engaged within Comcast and beyond, an...

Allison Conkright Engel is the Sr. Director, Diversity & Inclusion at Northwestern Mutual.  She has 20 years of work experience driving innovation across media, tech and finance. For almost a decade Allison has been focused on gender equity in historically male dominated industries. She had been driving outcomes in this space as an intrapreneur and is a globally recognized expert who mentors and i...

Alicia Scott is the Director of Diversity & Inclusion and Talent Management at ON Semiconductor. Alicia leads the diversity and inclusion (D&I) team to ensure it is embedded within everything the organization does based on workplace inclusion, workforce diversity and community partnerships, recognizing that the company is at its strongest when it effectively draws upon the wide variety of experien...

As head of Advisor Recruiting and Field Marketing, Kristen Kimmell leads the firm’s efforts to invite the best talent in the industry to join the firm’s nearly 2,000-strong financial advisor base. In her role, Kristen works closely with the firm’s global head of diversity and human resources to recruit and retain diverse talent in both the advisor and corporate ranks. She is also the leader of the...

As Senior Vice President of Walmart’s Southeast Division, Glenda Willis Fleming leads operations for  nearly  1,000 stores and the training and development for 350,000 associates across eight states. Her stores serve tens of millions of customers a week, making her work critical to delivering on Walmart’s mission to help people save money and live better. An engineer by trade, Glenda joined Walmar...

Kim originally joined PwC over 25 years ago as an assurance (audit) associate.  After a transition into the Human Capital team, she served in many roles over the years ranging from recruiter to diversity leader to US Talent Strategy Leader.  She is now the People Experience and Markets, Center of Expertise Leader.  In this role, she is focused on improving the day-to-day People experience across t...

Erin Packwood is Vice President, Total Rewards & HR Transformation at Sysco Corporation, the largest global foodservice distribution company,headquartered in Houston, Texas. She has over 20 years of experience developing and managing a wide range of human resources programs, including compensation, benefits and employee engagement plans, from strategy and inception to execution and administration....

Deb Hughes joined ADP in 1988 and has spent over 30 years in field and enterprise wide HR roles supporting ADP leaders in achieving overall growth and business objectives and leading global HR teams. She currently serves as SVP, Transformation Communications and Change Management and HR for HR, responsible for providing HR support to the Global HR organization, coordinating our internal communicat...

Juanita (Nita) Hendrickson serves as the Vice President, Human Resources for Teradata, where she leads the Organizational Development, Learning and Inclusion & Diversity efforts for the enterprise. Prior to joining Teradata, Nita held both business and Strategic HR Business Partner positions in the life science, telecommunications and environmental health industries. Nita has held HR Leadership ro...

CEO Pamela Maynard believes Avanade’s purpose is to make a genuine human impact. She is committed to Avanade’s vision: to be the leading digital innovator, creating great experiences as we realize results for our clients and their customers through the power of people and the Microsoft ecosystem. She says three of the most important things she does are to make sure our clients are successful on th...

Deepa Soni joined The Hartford as Chief Information Officer in 2019. Deepa brings executive leadership experience in partnering with business and technology executives to build strategy and drive execution. She has a solid track record in leading organizations to deliver large-scale, mission critical complex enterprise IT initiatives.  Prior to The Hartford, Deepa served as U.S. Chief Information...

Anne Elkin has almost 30 years of Human Resources experience and is currently a Vice President in Human Resources for Qualcomm. In 2018 she created and now leads the Global HR Solutions organization of over 250 worldwide HR professionals who support Qualcomm’s 33,000 employees focusing on delivering HR programs and services. Anne joined Qualcomm in 1995 as a Learning Specialist.  Over her tenure s...

Jill Anderson is senior vice president of Strategic Planning and Power Supply at Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation's largest electric utilities. She is responsible for driving business strategy across the company, ensuring that the integrated planning to support California's clean energy transformation is closely aligned with the company's procurement and dispatch of generation r...

Neelam joined Honeywell in 2011 working out of the Dubai, UAE offices as a Regional HR Leader before taking on a HR Functional Excellence Director role where she was responsible for program managing HR Functional Transformation initiatives. In 2017, Neelam moved into her current role as the Global Leader of Inclusion & Diversity and is currently living in New York. In her present role, Neelam has...

Michele C. Meyer-Shipp is the Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at KPMG.  In this role, Meyer-Shipp leads the firm’s efforts related to diversity and inclusion with a specific focus on the recruitment, retention, and development of a diverse workforce; fostering an inclusive and accessible culture; and inspiring broad perspectives and innovative client solutions.  Meyer-Shipp serves as a strateg...

An accomplished leader and former business owner, co-founded of EtiennePartners with her husband.  Together, they help organizations build more inclusive cultures through training and workshops designed to be practical, apply immediately to real-world situations to maximize participant engagement and long-term retention. Previously, as Director - Diversity & Inclusion for Grant Thornton (GT), she...

As Chief Diversity Officer at Microsoft, Lindsay-Rae McIntyre leads the organization’s diversity and inclusion commitments at the center of the company’s cultural transformation. Her work is critical to Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. With more than 20 years’ experience as a human resources executive for the technology sector, Linds...

Hannah Yang is senior vice president, head of Subscription Growth at The New York Times, leading its global subscription growth strategy and execution. Ms. Yang has held a variety of positions at The Times, including in business development, advertising sales development, and strategic planning, since joining the Company in 2010. Prior to joining The Times, she was a corporate attorney at the law...

Shuchi Sharma is the Global Vice President and Lead of Gender Intelligence at SAP, responsible for the strategy that supports SAP’s goal to obtain 28 percent women in leadership positions in 2020 and 30 percent in 2022. In this role, Shuchi leads, designs and implements the gender intelligence strategy to ensure it is integrated into the fabric of SAP’s culture, values and business model. She work...

As the Senior Vice President of Talent and Rewards, Laura oversees the entire Team Member life cycle: recruiting, learning & development, compensation, benefits, recognition, and diversity & inclusion programs, as well as all people analytics and strategy for Hilton Team Members around the globe. She’s been featured in the Huffington Post and Hispanic Executive for her role in creating an inclusiv...

Whether moving through the executive suites of Corporate America, working the corridors of power in Washington or Brussels, or leading a humanitarian relief mission in Africa, Sally Susman is equally at home. The New Yorker is known for influencing change and shaping public opinion in whatever arena she enters. As Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Pfizer, Susman leads...