Leadership Connection Interview with Denise Reed

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews Global Chief Diversity Officer Denise Reed Lamoreaux in Episode 22 of this series. Denise has been involved in diversity and learning-related endeavors for 30 + years.  Her career has encompassed Secondary Education, Professional Leadership Coaching, Leadership, and Instructing at both the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and Monroe Community College’s Corporate College program.

More About Denise Reed

Denise is the Global Chief Diversity Officer at Atos with a proven track record of producing extraordinary results.  In her role, Denise strives to

• Drive efforts to increase diversity of staff members through education programming, coaching, mentoring and recruitment/retention strategies, while fostering an inclusive workplace that values, and is sensitive to, the diversity of our staff
• Interface with legal, communications, marketing, and HR teams to directly impact employee perceptions and corporate culture
• Facilitate, moderate, and evaluate corporate programs to provide transformational experiences
• Liaise with recruiting and internal first to hire, promote, and retain key talent from all representative groups
• Lead both operational and strategic activities for internal and external audiences to affect change and impact decisions in recruiting, hiring, retention, and recognition
• Collaborate with Learning and Development to support employee success by offering programs, services, individual assistance and resources designed to enhance the diverse development of 120,000 + global resources in 73 countries
• Position Atos as an ethical, diverse, and inclusive employer of choice

Based in Rochester, New York, Denise has been involved in diversity and learning-related endeavors for 30 + years.  Her career has encompassed Secondary Education, Professional Leadership Coaching, Leadership, and Instructing at both the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and Monroe Community College’s Corporate College program.  She has served as Global Chief Diversity Officer at Atos for 5 years, and has won over 40 International D&I awards for the programs and policies she has implemented.

Denise led and participated in the development and delivery of programs that produced winning results:

• Top 50 Diversity Stars by National Diversity Council
• org’s Best Employers For Women’s Advancement List
• TEDx: The 511 On The Generations
• Brandon Hall Bronze for Women Who Succeed
• Women In IT Award for Diversity Initiative Of The Year (2 years in a row)

We hope you enjoy this episode!