Melissa Werneck

Melissa Werneck

Exec VP and Global Chief People Officer at Kraft Heinz
Company Tenure: 11 years
Education:
Federal University of Minas Gerais (B.E.) Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (M.B.A.)
Biography:

Melissa Werneck is the Executive Vice President and Global Chief People Officer at Kraft Heinz in Chicago, IL. Werneck has been with the company for eleven years. She holds a B.E. from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and an M.B.A. from COPPEAD UFRJ. She has reported no political donations.

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"So we demand diversity, became one of the core values of the company. We have six, we demand diversity is one. I think the second piece is that you needed to show to the organization that the senior leadership is committed to that. That's not something that is delegated to the, I don't know, fifth level of the organization. And what we decided this year, we put in place an inclusion council."

"Some positions we are saying, look, we want to have in the final panel at least one or two, depending on how many candidates you're showing. Diverse candidates, bias. They talk a lot about unconscious bias and some people I know that they are very critical that they don't think that unconscious bias training helps. I have an opposite will. I think it does because we did a lot of unconscious bias training in the last two years before."