Ms. Kirkwood’s experience spans over 27years in HR, Technology,Data & Ethical AI currently serving as Partner at IBM. She leads in Data & AI and in AI Ethics, working globally with organizations on their HR journey transforming their workforce strategies. She recently has served as an Executive Fellow for the World Economic Forum (WEF) leading Generative AI -Responsible Business Transformation and Safe Technology Design, led several organizations as VPHR Tech in assignments and served as Data Executives in projects. She was recently a speaker at WEF on these subjects at Davos, Switzerland. In addition, she has helped coauthor due to her experience in HR and AI, many series in/outside of IBM includingAugmenting Human Intelligence, Generative AI for CEOs, 7 Trends, Data Literacy for HR leveraging her expertise. She has been a reputed and top ranked executive in her field amongst industry publications and as an individual executive.
Her education includes data science at Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University and IBM Technology Academy. BeforeIBM, Jen spent her career at ADP in Global Services as the executive VP in establishing the Future of Work in HR for global organizations. She collaborated with the award-winning data science teams on compensation market benchmarking, pay equity, and DE&I. She helped inspire and build HR data analytics adoption and utilization strategies. Her experience has included change management and HR transformation in some of the very largest and complex multinational firms in the world.
She is a member of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management), IEEE, RAII, and IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) amongst others. As a Women in Tech leader, she is committed to helping organizations focus on AI governance, education & diversity, She is a member of Girls Who Code, P-Tech, Native American Women in Coding, IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility). She believes at the heart of all data, governance 1. DE&I strategies are essential to eliminate bias and 2. HR needs to lean in data/AI and workforce adoption to drive results.
Jen resides in Louisville, KY traveling the world with her husband and family living her best life and bringing faith and positivity to her community.