Vanessa Perez is an experienced human resources and operations professional with over 15+ years of experience. She takes a "people-first" approach to HR, working with organizational leadership to understand desired outcomes and making strategic recommendations to support strong employee engagement, while improving business practices. A strategic thinker, Vanessa enjoys balancing big-picture vision planning and the details required for data-driven decision making. She finds joy in system creation and management, as well as in supervising others. Vanessa self-identifies as a leader who leads through learning and works actively to leverage a diversity, equity and inclusion lens in her leadership, each day.