Senior-Level

Tyronne is the new Vice President of Global Diversity & Inclusion for Hyatt Hotels Corporation, a global hospitality company with widely recognized, industry leading brands and a tradition of innovation developed over its more than 50-year history. At Hyatt, Corporation Stoudemire Collaborates with senior leadership team to implement culture, talent, and marketplace strategies that leverage diversity and inclusion globally growing the enterprise wide across brand portfolio. As such, his team and internal corporate stakeholders implement diversity initiatives that include Resource Groups, mentoring programs for high potential women and people of color, a communications and public relations strategy to drive internal engagement and external brand recognition, and enhanced brand marketing effort to further focus on multicultural and LGBT audiences. Formerly, a principal in Mercer’s Diversity & Inclusion Practice, part of the Talent business segment, he joined Mercer from Aon Hewitt where he served as the Global Head of Diversity. A proven thought leader in the space of diversity and inclusion who seeks to enable a transformation of mindset, he is a visionary leader and strategist, certified administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)TM and a certified facilitator in Cultural Transformation ToolsTM. Tyronne identifies and leverages the opportunities and challenges presented by the expanding multicultural mosaic of worldviews and attitudes regarding health, wealth and performance given the increasing diversity in the workplace and global marketplace. A globally recognized executive and highly sought-after speaker, Tyronne routinely consults with Fortune 100 clients on diversity strategy, with particular insight around how organizational leaders can understand and harness the shifts evident in national and global demographic trends. Tyronne employs a unique talent that results in extraordinary benefits for individuals and organizations and has a proven ability to advance socially responsible corporate initiatives by fostering strategic relationships to catalyze international grassroots movements.

With more than 20 years of professional experience, Tyronne brings deep knowledge and commitment to Diversity & Inclusion and Community Relations by partnering with various internal and external constituents to consult, advice and advance the work of Mercer’s diversity strategy and community efforts. He provides the overall firm wide diversity strategy for recruiting to effectively source and recruit diverse talent across Mercer’s global landscape and is responsible for the strategic planning for local and national events. Tyronne partners with Orlando Ashford, the President of Mercer’s Talent business, to drive the overall operation in optimizing a comprehensive suite of diversity programs impacting 19,000 employees within 35 countries. This governance supports and empowers associate network focus groups and leadership forums, and provides opportunities for meaningful dialogue between management and key multicultural talent.

Dale began his career in organizational communication at Southwest Airlines and Ticketmaster/Live Nation - after which he co-founded an inclusionary leadership consulting company called The Gender Leadership Group.

As an activist at the forefront of the conversation around gender equality and healthy masculinity, Dale was acknowledged as a "leader of men of quality" by feminist attorney Gloria Allred, and presented at the International Conference on Masculinities alongside other leaders like Gloria Steinem, Sheryl Sandberg and Michael Kimmel.

Sara Taylor, President and Founder of deepSEE Consulting, has 35 years of extensive experience, nationally recognized as in the practice of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion serving local, national and global clients. While her areas of specialty are in both Diversity and Leadership Development, Sara has become a thought leader particularly in the field of Cultural Competence. Her bestselling book, Filter Shift: How Effective People SEE the World, is used by numerous individuals and organizations to increase success and create greater effectiveness. Sara holds a Master's degree in Diversity and Organizational Development and, prior to founding deepSEE, held positions such as Chief Diversity Officer and Leadership and Diversity Specialist.

Joe Gerstandt brings greater clarity, action, and impact to organizational diversity and inclusion efforts.

Joe has worked with Fortune 100 corporations, small non-profits, and everything in between. He speaks at numerous conferences and summits, and blogs at joegerstandt.com. He is a featured contributor for the Workforce Diversity Network Expert Forum and his insights have been published in Diversity Executive, HR Executive, and numerous other print and on-line journals.

A strong advocate for resetting the diversity and inclusion conversation, Joe sees these issues as poorly understood and often misunderstood.

Eun Y. Kim is the founder of CEO International and has over 25 years of coaching, consulting, and training in the fields of global leadership, executive presence, cross-cultural communication, and change management. Dr. Kim has done extensive work with executives in various industries in Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and helped them develop self and others, and build strategic partnerships across cultures and functions. Having been one of the first women professionals hired by a Korean conglomerate (Hyundai) after college, she has facilitated numerous individual/group coaching sessions for female executives as well. She also worked as a change management consultant at a prestigious US multinational consulting firm.

Joining Hardwick Benfer LLC in 2016, an employment litigation firm, Jill focuses on representing individuals in all aspects of employment law, including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour issues, employee benefits, reductions in force and wrongful discharge.  Jill also counsels employers on workplace investigations, employment decisions, policy development, and training and has also served as local counsel to firms in a variety of employment matters. Previously, Jill was a defense attorney with four years of practice in employment law, workers’ compensation and general liability litigation.

Jill’s legal experience follows an 18-year career in human resources, most recently as vice president of HR for a Fortune 500 company, managing strategic and operational global HR issues involving sourcing, developing, rewarding, and engaging employees located domestically and abroad. 

During law school, Jill clerked for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Baltimore, MD, and for the Circuit Court of Harford, Maryland.  She served as teaching assistant for civil procedure/legal writing, and was a member of legal honor society Phi Delta Phi.

Jill is a frequent presenter on a wide array of employment law topics, in local and national forums and also develops and presents in-house training for employers.

As Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for Sitel, Elsa heads the global team of 500 HR professionals supporting our employee base of 70,000. She leads our global HR efforts, including hiring great people both in a timely manner and aligned to client needs, engaging and retaining those great people, rewarding them for maximizing their contribution and growing their capabilities.  

Elsa’s career includes over 20 years of HR experience spanning several functions, including: compensation, benefits, talent acquisition, university relations and learning & development, and being an effective business partner with a variety of business leaders. 

Prior to joining Sitel, Elsa worked at Dell, Inc., a multi-national solutions and hardware provider as Executive Director for several of the Sales organizations.  In these roles, she worked closely with the organization GMs to drive people strategies that enable business results.

Elsa also completed a two-year expatriate assignment in Latin America where she led efforts to harmonize policies and processes across the region while addressing complex union environments, multi-country legal considerations and optimizing the leadership structure to support growth in the emerging markets.

Elsa is multi-lingual and speaks fluent English and Spanish, as well as conversational Portuguese. Prior to Dell, Elsa held various HR leadership positions during her extensive career at Applied Materials. Elsa leads Sitel’s global HR efforts and the management of the transformation of our HR function to be more scalable and responsive to our business needs.

Amanda Andrade is the Chief People Officer for Veterans United Home Loans, an award winning organization including Fortune Magazine’s Top 100 Great Places to Work. Amanda’s responsibilities focus on employee growth, innovation, success, health, happiness and the preservation of Veterans United’s company mission to Enhance Lives Every Day.

In addition to leading human resource organizations in both the public and private sectors, Dr. Andrade has served as an Adjunct Professor for various colleges, including most recently Stephens College and the Jack Welch Management Institute. 

Susan Hunsberger joined ServiceMaster in December 2013 as senior vice president of human resources.

Hunsberger joined ServiceMaster with broad global experience in a variety of industries, including market research, aviation, medical devices, and oil and gas. Most recently, she served as senior vice president, human resources, for the global business solutions group of Nielsen, a $5.4 billion global information and measurement company. There, Hunsberger built a strong record of building high-performing teams and driving results in talent management, organization design and capability, change management and employee relations.

Prior to Nielsen, Hunsberger spent more than 12 years in HR leadership positions at GE Aviation, a division of General Electric Company, and she also held several other roles in organization and executive leadership, supporting IT, manufacturing, and sales and marketing. Before GE, she worked in HR roles at Johnson & Johnson and Marathon Oil.

Hunsberger holds a bachelor’s degree in accountancy and personnel management from Miami (Ohio) University and a master’s degree in organizational development from Bowling Green State University.