Xan Daniels has enjoyed a 20-year career at Alight Solutions (formerly part of Aon Hewitt), a cloud-based human capital technology and services provider. She's the driving force behind this global organization's diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, and her expertise has powered this dynamic company to attract, advance and retain diverse talent worldwide.

Before her current role, Daniels, one of this year's HR's Rising Stars, led Alight's test management practice. She jokes that she believed she would retire as the "queen of testing," but in 2020, her colleagues called on her to fill a role that illuminated some of her other professional skills. Daniels accepted the award last week at Human Resource Executive's Elevate People, Ignite Change (EPIC) conference in Las Vegas.

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A new leadership calling

Prior to taking on her current role, Daniels co-led the org's global inclusion council, which advises and recommends inclusion and diversity priorities to the company's executive leadership team. Based on this role and other relevant experience, in the fall of 2020, she was asked to take on the full-time position as Alight's global inclusion and diversity leader to play a pivotal role in developing related policies.