Missy Sparks, PhD serves as Vice President of Talent Management/Human Resources  for Ochsner Health System. In this role she oversees Workforce Development, Orientation & Onboarding, Diversity & Inclusion, Performance Management and Engagement for more than 26,000 team members.
 

She leads her team in developing a diverse talent pipeline that opens career pathways into healthcare for the unemployed/underemployed. She is a current board member for the Workforce Development Board for New Orleans, YouthForce NOLA, and for Communities in Schools. Additionally, she volunteers weekly to help feed the hungry and homeless through St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in the French Quarter. 

Carolyn Volovsek has worked in Global Mobility for over 15 years. Carolyn is currently the Director-HR Operations, Global Mobility and Regulatory Compliance with Fiserv, Inc. and based in Brookfield, WI. In her role she is responsible for the management of the Company’s domestic relocation and global mobility programs which includes the management of all activities (assignment based and direct hires). In addition, she is responsible for the oversight of all US regulatory compliance programs and initiatives.  Prior to Fiserv, she worked for a third party relocation management company where she held various roles in global mobility and account management. Carolyn holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business from Carroll University and an MBA from Alverno College.

Carmen James Randolph joined the Foundation staff in February of 2014 as Vice President for Programs. Carmen previously worked at the Washington-based Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation where she was for the past 15 years including three years as senior program officer in education. While at the Meyer Foundation, Carmen led various award-winning initiatives to support a wide range of work including education organizing, charter school improvement, and post-secondary education reform.

As a leader in education reform in Washington, D.C., Carmen also held numerous national and local leadership roles with Grantmakers for Education; the Youth Transition Funders Group, a national network of grantmakers whose mission is to help all youth make a successful transition to adulthood by the age of 25; the S.T.E.P. Up Advisory Board, which addresses the graduation crisis in the District of Columbia; and, New Schools Venture Fund’s DC Schools Fund.

As Vice President for Programs at the Greater New Orleans Foundation, Carmen develops and manages the Foundation’s grantmaking portfolios in the areas of economic opportunity, organizational effectiveness, the environment, health and human services, arts and culture, education, and youth development.

Leslie Funk is a Workplace Program Associate at the New York City based Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. In this role she supports clients in the Corporate Membership Program and provides trainings on addressing religious diversity in the workplace. Leslie comes to this work with a background in alternative dispute resolution- she is currently a volunteer mediator at the New York Peace Institute and Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Association for Conflict Resolution, Greater New York Chapter (ACR GNY). Leslie earned a JD from Hamline University School of Law as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural Communications from the University of Connecticut. Throughout it all, Leslie has remained an avid traveler and portraiture artist.

People Strategy leader focused on developing and implementing initiatives and strategies across the organization to attract, hire, develop, and engage top talent. Strong background in talent acquisition and employer branding, coupled with a passion for data analytics and leveraging technology to fuel business strategy and leadership decisions. 

Experienced in hyper-growth organizations both in-house, as well as consulting, working with a goal of creating scalable processes that lead to reaching overall business objectives related to people operations and human strategy.  Jessica has just completed her Certificate in the Foundations of Neuroleadership.

Vivian is the Talent Mobility Immigration Manager at Electronic Arts, where she manages all US and Canadian immigration matters, as well as international relocations into Canada.  Prior to joining EA in 2016, Vivian worked as a Canadian immigration lawyer at a boutique immigration firm for ten years.  She currently serves as a Director on the Burnaby Board of Trade and is Chair of its Pacific Gateway Committee.  She co-founded a Canadian immigration benchmarking group in Vancouver, Canada comprised of in-house corporate immigration, mobility and HR professionals. 

With close to 15 years of experience in global human resources, Rina is a specialist in strategic global mobility, immigration and talent management. She is often called upon to speak about her experience aligning business strategy with global mobility. For the last decade, she has worked with News Corp - Sky D - 21st Century Fox - The Wall Street Journal - NewsPicks- Dow Jones, aligning the businesses under a single strategic direction. Working out of both New York and Germany, her experience includes policy development and implementation, global talent recruitment strategy/management and immigration compliance. Prior to NewsCorp, Rina lived and worked in Germany at General Motors as a Sr. Int’l Human Resources Consultant developing global training solutions and recruitment tools/processes. She is a native German and English speaker with fluency in an additional 4 languages including French and Spanish. She holds a degree in business administration and master’s degree in law. Additionally, she holds the Global Mobility Specialist (GMS) certification from the Worldwide ERC and serves on several global mobility advisory councils. She also lectures on Global Mobility and Immigration at NYU Grad School, Harvard and Yale.

Audrey is partner in our Human Resources practice group and is the head of our Immigration Team at Eversheds Sutherland. Audrey and the Immigration Team work closely with businesses seeking to move their workforce around the globe and which recruit new employees internationally, to ensure that all legal requirements are complied with. Our focus is on business immigration, providing comprehensive guidance on securing the requisite local immigration permissions for an overseas national to take up employment in jurisdiction and/or to set up in business.