A business leader who specializes in maximizing business results through people, Lisa Calicchio leads the award-winning human resources function for WCG Clinical, one of the world’s leading professional services organizations supporting clinical research. As Chief Human Resources Officer of Human Resources, Lisa translates WCG’s business strategy to people strategies and tactics that power the workforce and culture. Her decades of global business experience – alternating between business operations and HR roles – across a diverse array of companies helps ensure WCG’s people practices help maximize the business value of the Company while promoting a high-performance, high-collaboration culture. She is relentlessly focused on turning talent into performance to drive business results and make organizations work better. Lisa’s experiences in business and HR leadership span leading public and private companies including Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Covance, Wyndham Worldwide and GAF. She holds a B.A. degree in Communications from Kean University and an MBA in Human Resources Management from Seton Hall University. She is a member of the Executive Education faculty of Rutgers University and is a guest columnist for ThriveGlobal. Lisa’s other job? Turning life experiences and into life lessons and applying them to business circumstances, helping leaders and non-leaders everywhere make their respective organizations work better. Her life is her laboratory, and she shares learnings from life lessons major and minor to help people bring their best selves to the world every day.