Executive VP of Human Resources at Wells Fargo
Tia Silas is Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Wells Fargo, where she is responsible for leading HR across a number of areas including: Corporate & Investment Banking, Global Technology and Strategy, Digital and Innovation as well as Diverse Segments
Prior to her time at Wells Fargo Tia worked at IBM as the Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer where she was responsible for driving diversity and inclusion strategies across 170+ countries and 380K+ employees. In this role Tia was responsible for working with IBMs most senior leaders to define and execute D&I strategies related to leadership accountability, learning/skills acceleration, global policy, government relations, compliance, client engagements, communications and external commercialization of D&I offerings.
Tia was also the first Chief Human Resource Executive for Watson Health, an IBM start-focused on the use of artificial intelligence and other cognitive solutions applied to the mission of improving clinical outcomes, and global access to healthcare through cutting edge technology. Key to her success in this role was the ability to drive people and culture progress through strategic skill building, design thinking and agile methodologies.
Before joining IBM, Tia served in various roles—leading business unit HR Strategy, Talent Acquisitions, and Employee & Labor Relations with Pitney Bowes, Macy’s Inc. and JCPenney.
Tia has considerable recognition for her work in, being the only corporate leader asked to testify before US congress in support of the Equality Act, and also having been invited to the Vatican for a closed-door meeting with senior officials including Cardinal Pietro Parolin
She has been named one of Black Enterprise’s “Most Powerful Women in Corporate Diversity”, an SAP “Forward Thinker”, has received Crane publication’s “Game Changer” Award and endowed by New York Moves Magazine.
