Rising Stars

HR’s Rising Stars: Elevating through education at Dell

Gabrielle Rodman, global program management lead for the technology company, is modernizing leadership development and employee training with a focus on retaining high-potential talent.

HR’s Rising Stars: Driving the AI revolution at Microsoft

Prerna Ajmera is a key voice in the tech giant's AI integration work, one of the areas that landed her on this year's HR's Rising Stars list.

HR’s Rising Stars: Creating people-centric, tech-powered HR at Amazon

Drew Howell, global HR leader, has leaned into data and relationship-building to drive meaningful improvements in efficiency and engagement at World Wide Fulfillment by Amazon.

HR’s Rising Stars: Leading the AI-first talent strategy at ServiceNow

Sarah Tilley, SVP global talent management and acquisition, represents the next generation of HR leadership as her nominators wrote: "strategic, talent-first and deeply human-centered."

HR’s Rising Stars: Advancing people success at Schneider Electric with a ‘heart and mind’ approach

Mai Lan Nguyen, SVP Human Resources, North America, says if organizations want employees to "actually solve problems for our customers, we really do have to craft the right employee experience.”

HR’s Rising Stars: Driving global diversity success at Alight

HR's Rising Star Xan Daniels, of Alight Solutions, is focused on integrating diversity and inclusion across companywide practices.

HR’s Rising Stars: Why this leader dedicates 60% of her time to mentoring

HR Rising Star Anagha Bildikar is the leader of HR practices at Neeyamo, a global payroll and employer of record platform established in 2009.

How a Microsoft people analytics exec became one of HR’s Rising Stars

Dawn Klinghoffer, vice president for Microsoft’s HR Business Insights, stumbled into HR but is a natural fit in her people analytics role at the $2.4 trillion software giant.

At PwC, this Rising Star is helping the firm reimagine the workplace

Yolanda Seals-Coffield, deputy people leader at PwC, is embracing remote work, betting big on benefits and prioritizing employee needs as the firm invests $2.4 billion in its people program.

Rising Star goes all in on VR talent marketplace for MGM Resorts

Developing the careers of the casino and hotel giant meant taking real and virtual steps for Mandi LaRue, director of organizational effectiveness.

How this agile Rising Star helps drive 15Five into the future

Jennie Yang's career journey from customer success to HR vice president has been unusual but also taught her a lot about the business.