Martha Artiles
PDI-J The Emerging World of Employment: The Time is Now to Hire People with Disabilities
About Martha Artiles
Martha Artiles, Chief Diversity Officer, brings a unique combination of human resources, engineering and community experience from her 25-year career to Manpower where she oversees global strategic diversity and workforce development. Her expertise spans many categories including diversity, organizational change, recruitment, quality management and mechanical engineering. Prior to joining Manpower, Artiles 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-founder of a Hispanic employee networking group.
Artiles holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Santa Clara in California. She serves on the Board of the United States Business Leadership Network, Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee (HPGM) and is a member of the Conference Boards Workforce Diversity Council, National Society of Hispanic MBAs, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the newly formed World Economic Forum’s Global Diversity Agenda Council. She is an accomplished speaker, addressing engineering, human resources, Hispanic and women’s groups and is often cited as an expert in the media.
