
Brent Jones, the senior vice chairman of coaching, tradition and group at Dow Jones and editor of tradition, coaching and outreach at The Wall Road Journal, despatched out the next to the employees:
Pricey Colleagues,
Nice information: Juan Herrera joins my group on March 20 as Vice President of Coaching, Tradition & Neighborhood for Industrial, serving to us to drive and assist larger understanding, inclusion and alternatives that worth various abilities, views and experiences throughout the enterprise. Juan can even oversee Dow Jones’s enterprise onboarding expertise for brand spanking new hires; purposeful coaching, in partnership with enterprise stakeholders; inclusive useful resource teams; and outreach and group programming for groups that assist the corporate’s enterprise operations.
He’ll companion intently with Robin Turner, Vice President of Coaching, Tradition & Neighborhood for Dow Jones editorial operations, as they construct out a complete international variety, fairness and inclusion technique. Each are skilled DE&I practitioners who perceive intimately how we do our jobs, they usually’ll work collectively on serving to us attain three essential journey targets:
- Bringing to life DE&I finest practices with a sensible understanding of our enterprise.
- Partnering with editorial and industrial colleagues to develop intentional, bespoke options.
- Serving to all of us to embed DE&I understanding in all the pieces we do.
Juan comes with greater than 20 years expertise in company, authorities and nonprofit sectors, together with a wide range of roles in Human Assets, DE&I and communications. His most up-to-date function was serving as senior vice chairman within the Workplace of International Inclusion at ViacomCBS. Efforts he’s initiated and led throughout media, leisure and reinsurance have targeted on placing leaders entrance and heart of inclusion outcomes; up-skilling managers with cultural competency abilities to assist them lead throughout difficult instances; main various groups; and launching best-practice initiatives targeted on recruiting, creating and retaining high expertise.
Previous to coming into the personal sector, Juan served in senior management roles with Latino instructional nonprofits in Washington, D.C. — most notably the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the place he managed relationships with Fortune 500 corporations, group organizations, Congressional places of work and authorities companies.
He has additionally held positions on a number of nonprofit boards, together with the Nationwide Affiliation for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications, the Hispanic Heritage Basis and Housing Works, the place he served as board chair for its $18 million thrift retail subsidiary.
Juan earned his bachelor’s diploma in Political Science from the College of Arizona and accomplished UCLA’s Anderson College of Administration-NAMIC Govt Management Growth Program.
He lives in Manhattan along with his husband, Matt, and their terrier-mix canine, Tobey.
Please be part of me in extending a heat welcome to Juan as he helps us to information and assist our international community on this essential mission.
Cheers,
Brent