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Amy Cappellanti-Wolf  

Chief Human Resources Officer at Cohesity

Amy Cappellanti-Wolf is Chief Human Resources Officer at Cohesity, a company with a mission to radically simplify how organizations manage their data and unlock limitless value.

Cappellanti-Wolf is an accomplished senior human resources professional, business transformer and executive coach with expertise in working with startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Her capabilities focus on developing high performance leadership teams and guiding organizations through complex and challenging business transformations, including pre-IPO, rapid growth, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and culture changes. Her management roles span high-tech (Symantec, Silver Spring Networks, Cisco, Sun Microsystems), entertainment (The Walt Disney Company), and consumer goods (Frito-Lay). Cappellanti-Wolf’s specialty areas include Business Transformation and Change Management, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Organizational Design and Process Management, and Total Rewards.

Cappellanti-Wolf holds an M.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations and a B.S. in Journalism and Public Relations, both from WVU. She sits on the Board of Directors for Softchoice TSE: SFTC, an IT solutions and managed service provider, and D-Wave (NYSE), a quantum computing systems innovator and leader, and Betterworks, a performance management platform, and is an HR Advisory Member to Betterworks. Recently named one of the top 50 most influential women tech leaders by the National Diversity Council, Cappellanti-Wolf has been a Forbes Human Resources Council Official Member since September 2018 and a CNBC Workforce Executive Council Member since April 2022. In June 2022, Cappellanti-Wolf was selected to be in the Silicon Valley BusinessJournal's 2022 class of Women of Influence. In October 2019, she was named to the Roll of Distinguished Alumni at WVU’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics.

Speech Topics

Take the Bias Out of the system

ESG Environmental Social Governance

Culture – ethics and integrity

Mindfulness as an Integral Business Practice

Keys to Creating a Diverse & Inclusive Workforce

Developing a High-Performance Culture that Enables Your Company to Grow and Thrive

News

Women of Influence 2022: Amy Cappellanti-Wolf of Cohesity
Amy Cappellanti-Wolf is chief human resources officer of Cohesity.
Power Suit in the Executive Suite: Amy Cappellanti-Wolf, the CHRO of Cohesity, deftly navigates today’s slippery talent landscape
Amy Cappellanti-Wolf grew up in a close-knit Italian family in West Virginia, the child of first-generation immigrants. Her father owned a restaurant, where he worked six days a week, roping in young Amy and her siblings at every chance. What she lacked in big family vacations, Cappellanti-Wolf made up for in a strong work ethic. After graduating from West Virginia University with a degree in journalism, she went on to earn a master’s in industrial and labor relations. That was where she found her fascination with HR.
How Hybrid Work Is Evolving at Cohesity
A global IT firm headquartered in San Jose, California, Cohesity has offices around the world, including in India and Ireland. But a vast majority of its roughly 1,200 employees opt to work from home. The hybrid work environment has proven successful at the company so far. But chief human resources officer Amy Cappellanti-Wolf noted in an interview with Senior Executive Media earlier this year that it’s an evolving challenge all workplace leaders are grappling with.
Why empathy isn’t over: ‘Ignore it at your peril,’ CHRO warns

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