Chairman, Board of Trustee

JUN 2026 - PRESENT · 2 months

Chief Executive Officer, Founder

MAY 2020 - PRESENT · 6.3 years

Tessa White is known as The Job Doctor, and runs a media and consulting company focused on helping to unlock the potential of people within companies. She has over 1 million followers on social media platforms and is a thought leader on the modern workplace. She is a frequent guest on media including News Nation, CNN Business, Wall Street Journal, NPR and GMA. Her book, The Unspoken Truths for Career Success is a bestseller under HarperCollins and her companion podcast, The Job Doctor is In, can be found on Spotify and Apple.

Senior Vice President of Human Capital

JAN 2014 - JUL 2018 · 4.6 years

Vivint Solar grew from 900 employees in 2014 to 4500 by the end of 2015, securing their spot as one of the top solar providers in the nation. Built a team from the ground up, putting in place processes and infrastructure to prepare company for public offering in less than a year while doubling in size . With such rapid growth, this has required an enormous effort to build out a recruiting team that has hired more than 21,000 people during my tenure. Grew HR from a small team of three to team of 40 on recruiting, compensation, HR business partners, training and development, benefits, and equity administration.

Vice-President of Human Resources

JAN 2009 - FEB 2012 · 3.2 years

Consultant for HealthEquity, transitioned to VP of HR role in January 2010. What a company! Worked there while company was pre-IPO with just over 220 employees and doubling in size every year. Hired to set up scalable HR function and put in place a strong talent management plan to prepare for fast growth and manage through aggressive acquisition strategy. Left for a family medical situation which required my full time attention.

VIce President of Human Capital

JUL 2002 - DEC 2006 · 4.5 years

United HealthGroup is a Fortune 50 company and Ingenix is a division within this company. I led the Human Capital function for the operation, with responsibility for over 30 staff (human resource directors and internal recruiting team) located across the United States. Created an operations HR Dashboard that became a template utilized across the broader United divisions, and was tasked with the broader UHG project of "top grading" talent annually. Over 50% of our growth came from an aggressive acquisition growth strategy.

VP of Human Resources

MAY 1998 - DEC 2002 · 4.7 years

Led the Human Resources function during a period of high growth and international expansion, in preparation to go public or be acquired (ultimately by Symantec). On the team that set up international presence in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, France. Received the President's Legacy award for 2 two years, given only to the top 2% of the company contributors. We built the best HR team I've ever known. Our first year we were rewarded for a Leadership Development program rolled out to the management team, which helped our leaders speak the language of operational and finance basics. Second year we were recognized for our team's work on a compensation framework and training. While at PowerQuest, worked on the Compensation Committee with the Board of Directors, setting up our first equity grant programs.

Director of Human Resources

JAN 1998 - DEC 2001 · 4 years

Managed Human Resources through high growth period as recruiter and then as the Director of Human Resources through a difficult transition of downsizing and eventually closing their United States presence. Shut down the complete Utah operations of over 1,000 employees.

Benefits Manager/Senior Recruiter/Trainer

JAN 1993 - JAN 1998 · 5.1 years

Started in Human Resources as a Benefits Manager, moved into a Senior Recruiting role where I was responsible for the recruiting of any of our senior positions in the company. Also tapped to be a back-up trainer for the Covey material in it's corporate train-the-trainer programs.