Fireside Chat: Purpose At Work: How Google Is Forging a New Frontier for Diversity and Inclusion

• Where are most companies missing the mark with diversity, equity, and inclusion? How is this affecting abilities to attract and retain top talent?
• Shifting internal conversations to ensure leaders and teams are deeply engaged to build a culture of empowerment and safety
• Focusing on senior leadership: Overcoming fears of failure, encouraging effort, whole-picture thinking, and deconstructing old habits
• Leveraging partnerships that disrupt traditional approaches to DEI and building community and shared experiences across your corporate culture
• Solving environmental issues that create exclusion to produce long lasting change

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Melonie Parker
Chief Diversity Officer
Google

Melonie Parker is an HR executive committed to innovative, relevant, and contemporary HR leadership. She is an advocate for change and a passionate thought leader. Parker is responsible for advancing Google’s employee engagement strategy across Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Additionally, Parker serves as a Minority in Energy Initiative Champion for the Department of Energy. Prior to this role she served as the Vice President of Human Resources & Communications at Sandia National Laboratories. Parker was responsible for the leadership and Labs-wide management of human resources, health, benefits and employee services. She was also responsible for Sandia’s communication efforts, which include planning, strategy, executive communications, media relations, external branding, community affairs and internal communications. Prior to joining Sandia as the VP of HR and Communications, Parker extends expertise from a career spanning over 17 years in a variety of Lockheed Martin business areas, locations, and progressive leadership roles. During her time at Lockheed Martin, she has held responsibility for employee relations, staffing, EEO/Affirmative Action, diversity programs, compensation, benefits, and K-12 outreach initiatives. Parker received a B.A. in Mass Communications from Hampton University and an M.A. in Human Resources from Villanova University. She was named the 2016 HR Professional of the Year by the New Mexico Society of Human Resource Management. She was recognized with a Special Recognition Award at the 2014 Women of Color STEM Awards, and in 2012 graduated from Lockheed Martin’s Executive Assessment & Development Program.