Breakout

Latasha Gillespie

Speaker, Global DEIA Leader, Entrepreneur, and Executive Board Member, Getty House Foundation

Latasha Gillespie serves on the Executive Board of the Getty House Foundation. A recognized thought leader, Latasha is a powerhouse in global leadership and a corporate trailblazer. She continues to inspire audiences worldwide with her authenticity, strategic insight, and unwavering passion for progress.

As the former Head of Global DEIA for Amazon MGM Studios, Prime, Video and Freevee, she redefined industry norms by embedding inclusion into every stage of the creative process and launching initiatives like the groundbreaking Howard Entertainment Program. Previously, Latasha led Global Diversity and Inclusion for Amazon Corporate where she advised Jeff Bezos and the Amazon Board of Directors on global DEIA strategies.

Before Amazon, Latasha spent over two decades at Caterpillar Inc., where she led transformative work in finance, human resources, and global diversity – including serving as the company’s first Chief Diversity Officer and leading HR teams across U.S., Mexico, Africa, Middle East, Russia and Asia Pacific.

She’s been featured on both Variety’s Impact and Women’s Reports, Ebony’s Power 100, and Black Enterprise’s Most Powerful Women in Corporate Diversity. She is a 2024 NY Women in Film and Television Muse award recipient. Her most important title is God’s Favorite Child.

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Sessions

Breakout session

Tuesday, April 28, 1:30PM - 2:15PM

Lessons for Leading Well When Life (and Work) Get Real

SHINE

Leadership doesn’t break down in strategy sessions – it breaks down in moments of pressure, fatigue, fear, and change.

As HR and people leaders you spend your days holding space for others – navigating complexity, absorbing emotion, and carrying responsibility that is often invisible. But leadership is not sustainable when the giver is perpetually empty.

This session is an intentional pause– not to stop, but to rise renewed – an opportunity for you to refill your own cup so you can lead with clarity and strength.

In this engaging and deeply human presentation, Latasha Gillespie, former Head of Global DEIA at Amazon MGM Studios, Prime, and Freevee, shares hard-earned leadership lessons around resilience, clarity, rest, courage, and emotional intelligence – insights shaped by lived experience rather than theory. With warmth, humor, and honesty, you are invited to examine how authentic leadership – show up whole, not hardened – supports both personal well-being and organizational effectiveness.

You will explore how mindset, emotional contagion, celebration, healing and rest directly impact culture, performance, and the ability to lead people through ongoing change. This is not about doing more – it's about leading better, with intention, humanity, and sustainability.

Latasha Gillespie