Facing the unrest of the early 2020s, Valerie Richards took action.
“Employees came to me and said, ‘This is impacting me, my family and how I’m doing my work,'” she says. “It opened my eyes. I said, ‘We need to do something about this. We need to start our diversity, equity and inclusion journey.'”
Hiring women engineers
Valerie Richards is executive vice president of HR at Reynolds Consumer Products, home to Reynolds Wrap® aluminum foil, Hefty® trash bags and other household staples. She and her team have built the HR function from the ground up, creating a better recruitment experience and launching Reynolds’ diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) program. Part of that program involves boosting the diversity of Reynolds’ engineering workforce.
