FOUR SEASONS APPOINTS KEISHA SMITH AS EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF PEOPLE AND CULTURE OFFICER
Four Seasons, the world's leading luxury hospitality company, announces the appointment of Keisha Smith as Executive Vice President and Chief People and Culture Officer, effective January 6, 2025. |
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FOUR SEASONS APPOINTS KEISHA SMITH AS EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF PEOPLE AND CULTURE OFFICER
Four Seasons, the world's leading luxury hospitality company, announces the appointment of Keisha Smith as Executive Vice President and Chief People and Culture Officer, effective January 6, 2025. |
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 Keisha Smith appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief People and Culture Officer
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"Keisha brings extensive expertise from her dynamic career, along with a reputation for fostering culture-driven success, making her an outstanding addition to the Four Seasons leadership team,” says Reynal.
“Her commitment to building empowered, strong and thriving teams perfectly aligns with Four Seasons culture and our dedication to our employees, who are at the heart of everything we do. We are thrilled to welcome her to Four Seasons as we continue on our path of strategic growth.”
Keisha will play a key role in maintaining and enriching the company’s celebrated culture and people-centric focus, ensuring these priorities remain a longstanding competitive advantage to attract, retain and develop best-in-class talent worldwide. She will oversee the strategy and execution of all aspects of the company’s global People and Culture, Internal Communications and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts.
“I am honored to join Four Seasons, a company with a renowned culture that has been at the bedrock of its success for more than 60 years,” says Keisha.
“It is a privilege to join this iconic company at such an exciting time of growth, and to be able to play such a pivotal role in rallying our more than 50,000 global employees around our shared culture and vision for the future.”
With a storied career that spans more than two decades, Keisha has a strong and celebrated reputation as a transformative Human Resources executive.
She currently serves as an Independent Director and member of the Human Capital Committee for Unity Software (U). She has held senior HR roles at public and privately held companies across the fashion, media, and financial services industries.
Before joining Four Seasons, Keisha served as the Chief People Officer at Tory Burch, where her talent strategies led to the company achieving its highest employee engagement scores. Previously, Keisha held roles at News Corp and Morgan Stanley as Chief Human Resources Officer and Global co-head of Talent Management respectively where she established a track record for enabling business growth while fostering environments where employees thrive.
Keisha continues, “I am excited to collaborate with the incredible teams at Four Seasons to enrich an environment that has already accomplished that rarest of ambitions – setting the gold standard for performance and culture.”
Keisha holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Virginia and is a Hudson Institute Certified Executive Coach.
About Four Seasons for Good
Four Seasons is committed to building upon its strong history of supporting communities and the environment. Through its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) program, Four Seasons for Good, the company seeks to preserve and regenerate the beautiful places in which it operates and leave a positive, enduring impact on its communities. The Four Seasons for Good program is centered around two pillars: Planet (environmental impact) and People (social impact). Each pillar is supported by specific activities and objectives.
Comment from Journal des Palaces: Keisha Smith brings with her a wealth of experience in industries as varied as fashion, media, and finance. Among her achievements, she spent six years as CPO for the luxury brand Tory Burch.These competitive, high-pressure environments will provide her with the opportunity to rethink Four Seasons' corporate culture, which places human relationships at the heart of its philosophy and vision. Keisha is expected to bring a fresh and strategic perspective, and her appointment seems perfectly aligned with the heritage of excellence and inclusion that the group has nurtured since its creation in 1960 by the renowned Isadore Sharp. The Journal des Palaces team sincerely congratulates Keisha Smith on this exciting new mission!
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