Martha Artiles, Chief Diversity Officer, Manpower Inc.

Martha Artiles, Chief Diversity Officer, brings a unique combination of human resources, engineering and community experience from her 27-year career to Manpower where she oversees global strategic diversity and workforce development.  Her expertise spans many areas including diversity, organizational change, recruitment, quality management and mechanical engineering.

Prior to joining Manpower, Martha led diversity initiatives at global corporations in the manufacturing, IT and service sectors.  Her accomplishments include the initiation of a minority council to educate senior executives at a Fortune 300 global corporation, the creation and development of an executive-focused mentoring program and the co-founding of a Hispanic employee networking group. Most recently, she led the development and execution of Manpower’s global and North American diversity strategies.

Martha holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Santa Clara in California.  She serves on the Board of the U.S. Business Leadership Network (USBLN), Board of the Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee (HPGM) and the Executive Board of the Silicon Valley National Society of Hispanic MBAs. She is also a member of the Conference Board’s Workforce Diversity Council, the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA), the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the newly formed World Economic Forum’s Global Diversity Agenda Council.  Martha is an accomplished speaker at a national and international level, addressing diversity-related issues in human resources, Hispanic, minority, professional and women’s groups, and is often cited as an expert in the media.