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Pat Wadors

CHRO and SVP of the Global Talent Organization, LinkedIn

Pat Wadors joined LinkedIn in January 2013 to lead its world-class talent (HR) team. Pat is also responsible for all employee-related HR programs at LinkedIn as CHRO & SVP of the Global Talent Organization, including compensation and benefits and performance management.

She came to LinkedIn from Plantronics, where she was Senior Vice President of Human Resources, responsible for leading the company’s facilities and human resources programs across the all of its worldwide offices.

From August 2011 until August 2012, Pat also served as the HR Executive Advisor to Twitter. In that role, she worked with Twitter’s head of HR, CEO and Board of Directors

Previously, Pat also spent more than four years at Yahoo!. As the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Yahoo!. Pat led Yahoo!’s HR Business Partner function which supported 14,500 employees in more than 17 locations.

Prior to Yahoo!, Pat served as the Chief Human Resources Officer for Align Technologies and has also held senior human resource management positions at Applied Materials, Merck Pharmaceutical, Viacom International and Calvin Klein Cosmetics.

Pat was recently awarded one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology. She graduated with a BS in Business Administration from Ramapo College, with a major in Human Resources Management and a minor in Psychology.

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Align Philosophy and Processes The goal in a global company is to align philosophy and processes at least by 80 percent so it is efficient and easy to understand from an employee’s point of view. Leveraging a HR solution like work day or even success factors can help drive that change and force "employee value proposition" conversations. HCM tool...