Now imagine that a presidential election threatens to divide your employees and customers into two ideological groups...
AND that racial conflict threatens your workforce's internal stability while external riots threaten their safety and your stores...
AND that a deadly virus threatens to kill them (this is no joke...) or make them, their families and their communities sick while more than 250 million customers rely on them to provide necessary products.
AND it is YOUR JOB to help them stay healthy, happy and working in harmony.
On Wednesday, December 9 at 12pm (17:00 GMT), eat your lunch at your desk or bring your laptop to the dinner table because you will not want to miss our live event with Donna Morris, the woman who had to answer this question in real life for the sake of hundreds of millions of people.
Wallmart
Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer
Donna has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in delivering innovative people solutions, developing and managing teams that operate in an agile way, and helping to build a high-performance culture that promotes diversity and inclusion. Donna joined Walmart from Adobe, where she served as chief human resources officer and executive vice president of employee experience.
A native of O…
Donna has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in delivering innovative people solutions, developing and managing teams that operate in an agile way, and helping to build a high-performance culture that promotes diversity and inclusion. Donna joined Walmart from Adobe, where she served as chief human resources officer and executive vice president of employee experience.
A native of Ottawa, Canada, Donna joined Adobe in 2002 and most recently led all aspects of the company’s human resources, real estate and security operations. She led a number of workplace-friendly initiatives at Adobe, including expanding its family leave policy and simplifying standard HR processes.
Donna has a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Carleton University. Donna holds the Society for Human Resource Management – Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP), Senior HR Professional (SHRP) and Canadian Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designations. She also serves on the board of directors of Marvell Technology.
Donna and her husband, Wayne, are relocating to Northwest Arkansas. They have one son, Kyle, who lives in New York.
Harvard Business School
Born in Bulgaria and educated in the US, Petia has lived and worked in Palm Springs, San Francisco, New York, London, Barcelona and Vienna. She originally studied broadcast journalism with the intention of becoming a TV host and did work for CNN and several other TV stations while in college before graduating with a degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University. She was also enrolled for a year at the private Academy of Art in San Francisco where she took every available art class and worked with her classmates on several commercials and music videos. She acted in projects by one of the original members of Grammy-winner Latin band Jarabe De Palo. Petia has been working in the tech industry for the past ten years in various business roles but mostly in sales. She has a track record of bringing over EUR 10 mil in total revenue to companies she has represented and has worked with clients such as GoDaddy, Mailjet, TripAdvisor, Amazon and NASA. She is currently Head of Sales at Kaleido AI, an artificial intelligence company in Vienna, Austria while working towards her Master in Finance at Harvard Business School. She still has a passion for hosting and loves bringing quality conversations to Harvard's community.
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TU Delft - Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital
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Berlin Startup School
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