Her Story
About Camille
Camille Hyatt is an accomplished HR executive, people strategist, and organizational transformation leader with a career built at the intersection of business performance and human-centered leadership. As the founder of RoomFluency, a New Jersey-based people strategy and consulting firm, Camille partners with founders and executive teams to build scalable people strategies, leadership pipelines, compensation structures, workforce planning models, and culture frameworks that help organizations grow with clarity and purpose. Though her foundation is in corporate people strategy, RoomFluency has grown to serve education alongside it, and is expanding into hospitality: three sectors that look unrelated and aren't. Different rooms, same fluency. Whether the room is a boardroom, a classroom, or a dining room, the work is the same at its core: understanding people well enough to draw out their best. Known for her ability to combine operational rigor with empathy, she has become a trusted advisor to leaders navigating growth, acquisitions, organizational redesign, and workforce transformation.
With more than a decade of experience spanning healthcare technology, nonprofit organizations, higher education, and consulting, Camille has built a reputation for creating agile, inclusive, and high-performing workplace cultures. During her eight-year tenure at Accolade and Transcarent, she played a pivotal role in scaling the clinical organization from approximately 60 employees to more than 850 while supporting leadership development at the VP, SVP, and EVP levels. Her work has included redesigning organizational structures, leading DEI initiatives, improving employee engagement, integrating acquired organizations, and helping companies navigate change with both strategic precision and compassion. Earlier in her career, Camille worked in sales and account management at Thomson Reuters before transitioning into HR, bringing with her a unique understanding of business operations and client relationships.
Beyond her corporate leadership, Camille is deeply passionate about mentorship, coaching, and making HR more human. A former nationally ranked cheerleading coach with nearly two decades of coaching experience, she brings a strong leadership and development mindset into every aspect of her work. Following the loss of her mother to cancer, Camille committed herself to building a mission-driven career focused on helping people and organizations reach their fullest potential. She is a member of the Forbes Human Resources Council, holds a Strategic Human Resources Leadership certification from Cornell University, and has been recognized as part of the 2026 Influential Women (Jersey) program. Through her writing, consulting, and leadership philosophy, Camille continues to advocate for workplaces where people feel empowered, supported, and inspired to thrive.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Camille
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to a willingness to bet on myself, even when the path didn't look obvious. My career started in sales at Thomson Reuters, where I learned account management, revenue flow, and the different personalities certain roles require. After about four years, my director suggested I look at HR. I resisted at first, but I explored grad recruiting with the taxation department and found I loved it: learning about people, understanding their goals, and matching them to the right roles. When I was laid off in 2014, every career assessment I took pointed to HR as the best fit for my personality and skill set. I reluctantly took an HR trainer role at Catholic Charities, even though it meant a $15,000 pay cut. I told myself I'd go in, learn everything I could, and pull all kinds of data points for myself. Around the same time, I took a head coaching position at Princeton University, because I'm scrappy and gritty and I needed to supplement my income.
Then a friend from cheerleading coaching connected me to Accolade, a healthcare tech company, and that turned out to be one of the best decisions I've ever made. I learned so much, cut my teeth on all kinds of projects, and came to understand the mechanics of a startup. COVID was the breaking point in my career, the moment I realized I could impact people's actual lives, not just their day-to-day professional expectations. I love coaching people through the best and worst moments of their careers. After my mother passed away from cancer at 63, I made a promise to live to my fullest potential and do the things that scared me. That's when I started my consulting firm, now RoomFluency, because I wanted to help people stuck with uninformed and incompetent HR structures. I want to build cultures where people feel safe to create, innovate, and grow, whatever room they're in.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I ever got came from my time at the cheerleading company, when I was probably 19 or 20. We had a conversation about how you represent yourself, and the thing that stuck with me is this: all you have is your name. How you show up is on you, and you teach people how to treat you. I've held onto that, and it has served me well in my career.
People often ask me how I get away with what I get away with, and I always tell them: don't do what I do, because I don't know if it will work for you. What I do know is that it works for me, because I try to stay as true to myself as possible, even when I'm the outlier in the room. Whatever my point of view is, or the expertise I'm sharing, I'm grounded in it. I'm okay being the only voice, the voice of opposition, or the disruptor. I remind myself constantly that the only thing I have is my name, and I want whatever comes after it to be factual information about me, and as positive as I can hope for.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I'd tell young women entering this industry to stay true to who they are, protect their reputation, and teach people how to treat them through the standards they set every day. Learn to read the room, but don't disappear into it. There will be moments when you're the lone principled voice, and it will be uncomfortable, but integrity, confidence, and consistency are what will ultimately define both your leadership and your legacy. Your name is the one thing that follows you everywhere, so guard it and let your work speak for it.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenge in HR right now is navigating everything the COVID era left behind: burnout, employee expectations that have completely shifted, and real uncertainty around AI and the future of work. Organizations still have a lot of work to do to support frontline employees and build cultures that can actually sustain themselves. But that's also where the opportunity is. HR done well can create meaningful change in people's lives through people-first leadership, smarter organizational design, and more flexible models like fractional consulting. What I find interesting is that these people challenges show up everywhere, in a corporate office, a classroom, a hospitality team. Different rooms, same fundamentals. HR leaders today have the ability to influence not just business outcomes, but the overall well-being, growth, and experience of an entire workforce. That's the part I care about most.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I'm a big music person, so any time I can get to a concert for an artist I love, I'm there with my sister and my concert crew. Something I learned in my early years at my last company is that I didn't use my PTO and I worked like a dog, and when it's all over, it's over. So I told myself, alright, I have to actually enjoy life. Outside of coaching, which I do enjoy and will happily call a hobby, I love music, being at home, and spending time with my dog. I have a Boston Terrier named Bronx, after where I'm originally from. I've started picking up gardening too. I don't know what happened when I hit this age, but now I find real joy in seeing the colorful flowers and doing little projects like that. You have to find the beauty in life these days. I love entertainment, a good time out with good people and good friends, going out and seeing the city. I love to travel. My last big trip was to Dubai, and it was an amazing trip. I planned for it and spared no expense. Now I'm at the point where I'm staying home, because I paid so much for this mortgage that I'm going to enjoy this place. I'm making it my oasis.
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