The Leadership Connection  

Episode 22: Denise Reed Lamoreaux

Doug Plucknette | Contributing Host, RELIABILITY CONNECT

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Welcome to Episode 22 of The Leadership Connection! On today’s episode…

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…

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!

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About the Author

Doug Plucknette Contributing Host, RELIABILITY CONNECT

Doug Plucknette has been in the Field of Asset Management, Maintenance and Reliability for 38 years. In 1999 he founded Reliability Solutions Inc. As the founder of RCM Blitz™ and author of the book Reliability Centered Maintenance using RCM Blitz™, he has provided reliability training and consulting services to numerous companies around the world, large and small, including such Fortune 500 companies as Cargill, Whirlpool, Honda, Kraft-Heinz, Schlumberger, Corning, Invista, and Newmont Mining.
Doug has made key contributions to standard reliability measures for manufacturing, and reliability training programs worldwide. He has trained numerous client RCM Facilitators and performed RCM analyses on hundreds of pieces of manufacturing equipment.
Prior to his work as a consultant, Doug worked 19 years at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY in positions as a skilled tradesperson, lead person, Maintenance Supervisor, and Reliability Engineer.
Recognized as an Industry Expert, Doug has published over 50 articles, written two books, has been a featured speaker at dozens of conferences and Key Note Speaker for two Global Reliability Conferences.