Kate Himes

Intel's global Data Centric Group accelerates growth through technology and innovation by moving faster, storing more and processing everything. We are doing this by winning the cloud, unleashing artificial intelligence and analytics, and cloudification of the network and the edge. As Senior Director of HR, Kate leads a global team of 50 HR professionals and is accountable for developing a strategic plan, priorities and deliverables that solve complex business and organizational challenges. Her leadership impacts executives, managers and employees across over 40 sites and 17,000 employees world-wide.

Strategic partner and thought leader in people and cultural aspects of organizational performance. Key focus areas include building a high performing HR team with the right capacity to achieve business objectives; assessing internal and external business opportunities and threats and influencing organization decisions and actions accordingly; improving operations of the organization by shaping systems, processes and practices; continually assessing and contributing to the development and inspirational articulation of the vision and business strategy; and coaching/advising business leaders on strategy and organization design alignment, leadership, talent, team effectiveness, performance management, culture and engagement, capability gaps, and change management initiatives.

I'm leading a small, innovative x-functional team of experts chartered to architect the employee experience and deliver bold changes aimed at engaging employees, increasing trust and triggering visible changes in the Intel environment.

- Providing proactive strategic planning for the organization - Leading staff operations and meeting management - Drafting communications, supporting executive in meetings and reviews, writing keynotes and presentations, preparing briefings - Managing HR Center of Excellence (COE) connections - Interfacing, partnering and collaborating with TA and Chief of Staff partners across human resources - Aligning and influencing executive stakeholders across the company - Leading strategic projects and initiatives for the organization - Acting as a sounding board, key influence and adviser to the VP and staff team

Advancing Intel’s Strategy • (Re) Architect and (re)build to maximize the likelihood of success in Intel’s top priorities. • Influence business strategies & plans for improvements and advancement. • Help Intel achieve business goals and imperatives through the assessment and research of business opportunities and organizational challenges Change Agency / Management • Help drive major changes that cannot happen within one business group or country. • Provide change & transition management expertise to enable major change from ideation to implementation. • Establish change management rigor & standardization for strategy development, process, talent and metric design. • Accelerate Intel’s transformation by shaping (designing) organizations for change. Implementing Integrated Solutions • Assess the ability of our organizations to execute to stated goals. • Diagnose organizational and leadership blind spots and gaps; present critical feedback with boldly state a vision for the path forward. • Architect integrated solutions, requiring a thorough and holistic view of the eco-system, and help design the business for success. • Utilize standardized, best practice methodologies and tools that are scalable to support prioritized initiatives. Motivate, Inspire, and Role Model • Create effective partnerships within human resources, with business executives and across the company. • Inspire others by role modeling x-enterprise collaboration, boldness and accountability.

- Act as chief human resource adviser and influencer to VP and General Manager - Advocate for and resource HR solutions for 6,000+ person organization - Provide employee relations and team effectiveness consultation to senior staff - Leadership and management coaching and development planning - Facilitate senior staff business meetings and organization-wide events - Partner and lead a x-HR account team spanning staffing, learning & development and compensation & benefits - Manage a team of 8-10 Human Resource Business Partners