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 Betterworks "The Future of Work" Advisory Council

 Betterworks "The Future of Work" Advisory Council brings together the best-of-best in the field of human resources to collaborate around best practices in Continuous Performance Management.

Meet the Council

Laura Garnett

Owner, Garnett Consulting LLC (Council Chair)

Laura is a performance strategist, TEDx speaker, and the creator of the Genius Habit. She works with CEOs and executives to identify their unique genius and purpose, and craft an actionable plan to leverage them in their day-to-day work. Prior to launching her own company, Garnett Consulting, she honed her marketing, strategy, and career-refining skills at companies like Capital One, American Express, IAC, and Google.

Josh Bersin

Board of Directors, Betterworks

Josh Bersin is a world-known human resources industry analyst and founder of Bersin by Deloitte.
Josh is a public speaker and author of The Blended Learning Book, The High-Impact Learning Organization and High Impact Talent Management. He advises a variety of HR and learning companies to help them align their products and services toward the needs of corporate buyers, and is an independent advisor to the Betterworks Board of Directors.

Scott Day

VP, People, Global Sales & Marketing at PayPal

Scott is responsible for driving the people strategy for PayPal's Global Sales and Marketing organizations. Prior to his current role at PayPal, Scott was SVP, People and Culture at OpenTable. He has previously held senior HR leadership functions at companies including Airbnb, StubHub and Yahoo, creating and implementing customized people strategies to support the growth of these industry-leading technology businesses.

Tracy Layney

SVP & CHRO,
Shutterfly, Inc.

With more than two decades of experience in HR and organizational strategy, Tracy leads Shutterfly’s people strategy. Previously, Tracy served as Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources and Communications at Old Navy and held positions at Levi Strauss & Company and PricewaterhouseCoopers/IBM Business Consulting Services.

Erin Flynn

Chief People Officer,
Optimizely

Erin is the Chief People Officer at Optimizely where she oversees Recruiting, People Ops, Real Estate and Workplace Operations at Optimizely. Erin’s more than 20 years of experience includes a decade leading recruiting, talent development, and employee success at Salesforce, as well as sitting on the board of the Horizons Foundation.

Susan Lovegren

Chief People Officer, Medallia

Susan is a progressive HR executive with a track record of reimagining workplace policies, programs and processes to better align with the rapidly changing needs of the workforce, business and customers. Prior to joining Medallia she served in Chief People Officer roles at Juniper Networks and Plantronics, with both being named to “Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For” list. A champion of women in technology, Susan has partnered with the Anita Borg Institute, Grace Hopper Women in Computing, Catalyst Inc., and Watermark, where she received their 2016 Advocacy Award.

Marcia Morales-Jaffe

Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Co

Marcia is an accomplished Chief People Officer with Fortune 300 companies, having served as the Chief People Officer at PayPal and SVP People & Performance at World Fuel Services. Marcia partners with visionary leaders to build scalable enterprises with strong/diverse teams and cultures that inspire extraordinary achievements, and is deeply committed to mentoring and developing future leaders as a board advisor for non-profits Humans For AI
and Projectile X.

Kristen Robinson

CHRO, Pandora

Kristen is responsible for Pandora’s global people strategies and operations, where she is committed to developing a culture where people thrive and generate lasting business success. Kristen invents and deploys 21st-century people practices that are innovative, based on modern science and relevant to today’s worker and work environment. Her deep expertise in building global teams for technology companies includes working for Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and others.

Amy Cappellanti-Wolf

VP & Chief Human Resources Officer, Symantec Corporation

Amy is SVP & CHRO at Symantec. In addition to serving on the executive team and managing Symantec’s global human resources function, she leads the company's Workplace/Workforce Strategy and Planning, Real Estate and Facilities organizations. Amy has more than three decades of experience leading companies through complex transformations and was recently named one of the top 50 most influential women tech leaders by the National Diversity Council.

Andrew Cole

Chief Organizational Development and HR Officer, Vertiv

A new member of the BetterWorks HR Council for 2018, Andrew has been developing dynamic, high growth global leaders and teams in a various companies and cultures for the last 20 years. Prior to his current role as Vertiv’s Chief Organizational Development and HR Officer, he led organizational development programs, corporate talent strategy, leadership development and change management for teams involving up to 8,000 employees.

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