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Tanya Clemons is corporate vice president for People and Organization Capability in the Human Resources Group at Microsoft Corp. She is responsible for ensuring that Microsoft maintains an exceptional work force as it continues to grow and lead by working on strengthening the company�s strategies for leadership development, talent management and organization development. Her team oversees leadership and management development, change management and organization development, employee learning and training, talent enablement and succession planning, as well as enterprise-wide culture change initiatives. Her goal is to build a disciplined but adaptive talent management process that ensures that Microsoft has the best talent in the industry that can be deployed against current and emerging business opportunities, and that Microsoft has a culture that allows talent to thrive.
Before joining Microsoft in 2003, Clemons was vice president of Global Executive and Organization Capability at IBM Corp. where she was responsible for leadership development, succession planning and organization development. She designed and implemented IBM�s first common framework for leadership and culture change, now used throughout the corporation. Before joining IBM, she worked at Georgia-Pacific Corp. as director of Executive Development and Organization Planning. Her duties included executive development, strategic alignment of the human resources planning process, and ensuring that the company�s organizational structure supported employee development. She also created and installed the company�s performance management system. Before joining Georgia-Pacific, Clemons spent five years at Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. where her responsibilities included management selection and assessment, organizational development, and consulting.
Clemons holds a bachelor�s degree in psychology from the University of New Orleans and a doctorate in organizational psychology from Louisiana State University. She is on the board of the National Urban League, Executive Development Network, and is a member of both the International Consortium for Executive Development Research and the American Psychological Association. She lives in Redmond, Washington with her husband, two children and their two Australian Shepherds. Her pastimes off campus include reading, especially history and biographies of historical figures; attending theater; golf; yoga, and cultivating her garden. | 