BDPA Chicago – TECH Talk: Navigating Your Career for Success

                             Chicago BDPA Chapter Networking Meeting

                        Fireside Chat with Human Capital Thought Leader

                                       “Navigating Your Career for Success”

Speaker: Tope Sadiku 

Currently serving as their Global Head of Employee Digital Experience, Tope’s focus is to increase employee productivity and creativity with the use of Technology. Tope is a thought leader on the topic of Future of Work/ Life, actively contributing towards research and experimentation in how we move, achieve objectives, connect, and collaborate between physical and virtual spaces. She has a very eclectic background in multiple Fortune 200 organizations, integrating her academic knowledge to drive profitability in a more responsible conscientious manner. She has worked with Kraft Heinz for the past four years and has recently relocated from London to Chicago. She also serves as a Future of Work specialist for the World Economic Forum as well as a Board Member for the Institute of Work and Economy, exploring how societies and economies will achieve the promise of work and life.

She would describe herself as incurably curious and enjoys taking learnings from the most abstract places. Tope is a keen fitness fanatic, starting each day with an hour of high intensity exercise. She believes this is the key to her focus, determination, and resilience.

Moderator: Tanya Hinton

She is the President/CEO of DSS Global, Inc. Executive Search headquartered in Chicago, IL. DSS Global, Inc. is a member of the Heidrick & Struggles Inclusion Network to partner with the firm on diversity assignments in financial services, insurance, and consumer industries.  In addition, she previously served as the Executive Search Leader for a global management consulting firm.

Ms. Hinton is well known within the diversity recruiting arena for finding niche senior executive talent worldwide to lead businesses that are in the Americas, Asia and emerging markets for large multinational organizations. She has over twenty years of experience in executive search as a diversity and inclusion specialist, working with Fortune 100 companies across all industries that seek senior leadership talent to create a diverse senior executive team. 

Ms. Hinton has successfully placed candidates across all industries and various functions. Her strengths include recruiting and coaching Director to C-level executives to realize their potential for their next corporate officer or a business unit executive position. She speaks at diversity professional association conferences such as BDPA, NBMBAA, NAAAHR and serves on several boards.

Ms. Hinton has been involved with BDPA for over 20 years.  She has served as Director of Marketing for the Chicago Chapter early in her career and BDPA National as the Interim Director of Corporate Sponsorship in 2019.

Ms. Hinton holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago and executive education completed at Northwestern University-Kellogg School of Management and Harvard University.  In addition, she is a Certified Personnel Consultant and Certified Diversity Recruiter.