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Staffing 100 North America

The Staffing 100 North America list celebrates the remarkable leaders whose influence and accomplishments elevate the workforce solutions ecosystem and take the industry forward.  

2017 Staffing 100 North America

Mara Swan

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For more than 30 years, Mara Swan has worked in the human resources sector and has seen the business change firsthand, especially when it comes to gender disparity. She joined ManpowerGroup in 2005 and now serves as executive VP of global strategy and talent. Last year, she wrote the report, “Seven Steps to Conscious Inclusion: A Practical Guide to Accelerating More Women Into Leadership.” She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Steering Committee for The Future of Education, Gender and Work, and helped escalate the issue of gender parity at Davos in January 2016. In the US, she sits on the executive committees of the Peer Round Table for CHROs and the HR Policy Association, where she leads the Workforce 2020 Initiative.