Director, Diversity Management
Developed, implemented and managed company wide diversity initiatives dealing in the areas of workforce, marketing, supplier diversity, philanthropy, and community affairs. Established strategic direction, defined key business rationales, incorporated controls and metrics and executed strategies that increased recruitment, retention, associate engagement, multicultural awareness, pipeline diversity and employee development. Created and managed financial budgets for the department and also for individual sponsored and activated events. Identified, selected and managed organizations serving multicultural communities for strategic national partnerships serving both internal and external constituencies.• Developed and launched executive training program that resulted in the increased awareness of, and management of “Implicit and Explicit Cultural Bias”.• Revamped national community organization partnership plan that brought consistency to the guidelines around partnering and measuring effectiveness of the partnership.• Influenced Human Resources to change the job posting policy insuring that all jobs VP and below where to be posted creating transparency.• Assembled a national calendar of events listing all multicultural events sponsored or supported by all departments in the company, creating a “one-stop source”• Strategically planned, executed and managed departmental budget of $3,000,000.00.
