Danielle Speidel

My background is in ecology and plant taxonomy, and I spent the first 5 years of my career in that field. After getting let go, I had to rediscover myself and entered Wells Fargo at the very bottom as a refinance processor. I found a culture and experience that I absolutely loved. I moved into bankruptcy document execution in default servicing operations, doing not fun work because default servicing is not a happy story in someone's life. I started doing systems testing and becoming a business subject matter expert so I could be more involved in projects and horizontal efforts. From there, I moved into pre-foreclosure, still in default, but managing the automation logic behind our tooling, which gave me a peek into data and I was facilitating data use. I became extraordinarily interested in how a large bank the size of a government operates. I moved into enterprise data governance and started to pick up how to manage data within a large organization. I then got moved into corporate risk space and started to manage business processes, learning all kinds of business processes. I realized this was going to give me information about how this organization works. I moved into wealth investment management as their business process librarian, managing all of the business processes of how we operate in wealth management. While there, I got extraordinarily interested in product and started learning how to run empowered product teams. Then I came to HR with my product, business, and operations knowledge. I got aligned to an executive who'd just come in to help fix our HR data transformation, and that's who I support. I have a very unique lens because I have been all around the bank and experienced all kinds of organizations, marketing styles, and management styles. I'm extraordinarily passionate about bringing my ecology component together with my Wells Fargo knowledge. I have a leader who has seen this and is creating conditions for me to apply this very unique lens that not a lot of people have. I've been with Wells Fargo for 13 and a half years. During summers and Christmas vacations before my internship, I was a teller for a credit union, so I have also sat as a teller in branches and helped people.