Janelle Gale is the Vice President of Human Resources at Facebook.

In her role, Gale leads a team that partners with the business to grow and engage Facebook’s 17,000+ employees across more than 50 offices in 30 countries, evolves the organizational design, and creates and implements people programs while ensuring the scalability of Facebook’s culture. She is responsible for the HR Business Partner, Diversity, Talent Management, and Operations functions.

Prior to Facebook, she spent nine years at Levi Strauss & Company, where she held a variety of HR roles including organizational and leadership development, HR Business Partner, and head of Human Resources for Levi’s apparel brand. Earlier in her career, Janelle was a principal consultant at IBM Business Consulting Services in the organization and change practice.

Janelle currently serves on the board of Sughar Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on teaching life, business, and entrepreneurial skills to women and girls in rural Pakistan.

She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology.

Human Resources, Business Leadership, Business Growth, Female Leadership, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Performance Measurement, Employee Recruitment, Women, Empowerment, Women in Business, Influential Women, Non-Profit, Leadership, Corporate Culture, Business,