Carmen is an accomplished, bilingual human resources leader and trusted advisor who helps organizations navigate transformation, elevate leadership, and build people strategies that drive engagement and results. She delivers practical, high-impact solutions to clients across industries during times of change, growth, and reinvention.
Her specialties include coaching, culture and engagement, talent development and mobility, performance management, mergers, acquisitions, and integrations, compensation, employee relations, and strategic workforce planning.
Carmen brings deep talent and culture experience in diverse sectors, including financial services, healthcare, legal, higher education, senior living, construction consulting, consumer goods, and manufacturing. Her background includes roles at PepsiCo, Wells Fargo, Wake Forest University, and leading healthcare and legal organizations. She supports her clients on a fractional or ongoing basis.
Additionally, Carmen is a dynamic speaker on talent, culture, resilience, and leadership. Her work has been recognized by HRO Today (CHRO of the Year), the National Diversity Council (Top 100 HR Professional), and Diversity MBA (Top 25 Inclusive Leader).
She is a SHRM-SCP certified professional and holds a Master of Labor and Industrial Relations degree from Michigan State University, where she serves on the School’s Advisory Board. She also has been appointed by the Governor of North Carolina to statewide boards and councils.
Carmen is an accomplished, bilingual human resources leader and trusted advisor who helps organizations navigate transformation, elevate leadership, and build people strategies that drive engagement and results. She delivers practical, high-impact solutions to clients across industries during times of change, growth, and reinvention.
Her specialties include coaching, culture and engagement, talent development and mobility, performance management, mergers, acquisitions, and integrations, compensation, employee relations, and strategic workforce planning.
Carmen brings deep talent and culture experience in diverse sectors, including financial services, healthcare, legal, higher education, senior living, construction consulting, consumer goods, and manufacturing. Her background includes roles at PepsiCo, Wells Fargo, Wake Forest University, and leading healthcare and legal organizations. She supports her clients on a fractional or ongoing basis.
Additionally, Carmen is a dynamic speaker on talent, culture, resilience, and leadership. Her work has been recognized by HRO Today (CHRO of the Year), the National Diversity Council (Top 100 HR Professional), and Diversity MBA (Top 25 Inclusive Leader).
She is a SHRM-SCP certified professional and holds a Master of Labor and Industrial Relations degree from Michigan State University, where she serves on the School’s Advisory Board. She also has been appointed by the Governor of North Carolina to statewide boards and councils.
