Rita Giacalone, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Alameda, CA, US

• Exponential Talent helps its clients innovate, change and grow in order to tap into the full performance power of today's diverse workforce.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Promoted by the Chief People Officer to transform and revitalize the Talent Development Organization. Led the reimagining of Autodesk’s Global Talent Management Strategy and established an impactful centralized.
• Executive sponsor and strategic architect for Autodesk’s post-pandemic hybrid work approach named “Flex Forward.” Prioritized human-centered design/data-driven insights and established localized decision-making.

San Francisco, CA, US

Promoted to Vice President, reporting to the Chief People Officer, to influence overall People and Places strategy and continue the positive momentum for the Culture and D&B enterprise-wide impact described below.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Promoted to drive holistic, data-driven, enterprise-wide culture and diversity & belonging (D&B) strategy for SaaS technology company of 11K+ people in 50+ offices globally. Oversee diversity partnerships, hiring.
• Created global D&B strategy. Engaged 17 global focus groups to identify themes and focus areas, assembled D&B strategic advisory group with 2nd-level leaders, designed real-time dashboard to track metrics, and.
• Launched diverse slate initiative for directors and above roles in partnership with talent acquisition.
• Increased diversity hiring through targeted strategic external partnerships and upskilled managers in inclusive hiring practices and disruption of common interviewing biases.
• Evolved ERGs into strategic partners. Established CEO staff as executive sponsors to ERG leads, developed strong governance model and ERG playbook, and increased global reach of ERG participation, and established an.
• Launched NEXT LEVEL, a program designed to increase Autodesk’s internal pipeline of Underrepresented People of Color (URPOC) into leadership roles including a full year of executive sponsorship, a personal advisory.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Transformed and operationalized Autodesk’s culture to align values and ways of working with business objectives during a period of rapid growth and business model transformation. This critical effort resulted in.
• Crafted, launched, and scaled Autodesk’s Culture Code (Values and Ways We Work) as Autodesk doubled its employee base to over 13k in 50+ global offices.
• Designed and executed cross-functional "Culture Fundamentals" workshops globally reaching 5k+ employees with human- centered design volunteer community of 100+ facilitators.
• Developed a Culture-to-Action Toolkit enabling 500+ managers to engage their teams in culture dialogue and determine areas of strength and barriers to living the new Culture Code.
• Utilized human centered design to plan and deliver 3-month all-company culture “Sprints” that combined digital, in person, and cohort-based learning. Identified Culture Code Sprint topics that required additional focus.
• Developed and launched a new companywide decision-making architecture with 560 leaders trained in cohorts, 700 manager-facilitated trainings, 1,800 virtual workshops, 200+ “decision moment” facilitators certified, and.

• Founded organizational development consulting firm serving public and technology companies such as Salesforce, Glassdoor, SAP, and Autodesk. Optimized client engagement and productivity through customized intrapersonal.
• Fostered sense of belonging and mutual respect across race, gender, and ethnicity by diffusing cross-cultural tensions in public utilities sector organizations, increasing employee engagement scores and productivity.
• Delivered team interventions using The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team model, leading to significant and sustainable improvement in team performance.
• Provided executive coaching for CEOs, EVPs, SVPs, and GMs in public/nonprofit orgs and tech companies, realizing significant improvement in leadership capabilities.
• Designed and delivered change management curriculum to 90 executive-level leaders in Salesforce’s customer success organization. Presented at Salesforce’s annual G&A employee career day with 500 attendees.
• Created culture and digital transformation curriculum for sales consulting leaders managing enterprise accounts.

Clinical practice specializing in treating women and adolescent girls. Areas of specialization include eating disorders, transition from adolescence to early adulthood, female adolescent development (maintaining one's "voice"), navigating negative social media exposure, parenting, coming out mid-life.

San Francisco, California, US

Joined the UCSF Infant-Parent Program staff after completion of pre- and post-doctoral training. Provided organizational consulting services to early education centers throughout San Francisco.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Clinical Psychology

Ph.D., Psychology