Tina Dumas, Talent Partner on Influential Women

Influential Woman · HR Technology

Tina Dumas

CPCU

Talent Partner, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Frisco, TX

Certifications · Degrees · Memberships

Degree Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration - Wesleyan College Degree Georgia Degree Master's Degree in Diversity Degree Equity Degree Inclusion Degree And Social Justice - University of Oklahoma Cert CPCU Cert Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma Cert Senior Leader Facilitator Certification - Neuro Leadership Institute Member Leader of local church community

Her Story

About Tina

In my day-to-day role, I am aligned to the CIO of our organization and their direct reports, and I serve as their own personal HR representative. I partner and collaborate with them on developing a talent strategy for their organizations to ensure that we are helping to drive the business strategy and goals with talent and any talent initiatives that can help drive those goals. That could include anything from recruiting to compensation to executive coaching and organizational design. You name it, if it has a people implication, then I am their partner to help them work through it. Outside of my day job, I'm currently leading our enterprise generative AI culture and learning initiative at Liberty Mutual. I was asked by our CIO and chief people person to lead this work, which is basically an effort to upskill all 45,000 plus global employees on using our GenAI internal tools on a regular and consistent basis. We kicked that work off about a year ago, and when we first measured adoption at that time, we had about 27% of our employees actively using our tools. As of today, we have increased that number to 78% of our 45,000 employees.

Her Interview

Ten minutes with Tina

01What do you attribute your success to?

I think at the end of the day, no matter what your expertise is or your technical ability is, it comes down to one person trying to work and partner and accomplish a goal with another human being. If you're curious to meet those human beings at that level, where they bring their whole human to the situation, you're able to have much better outcomes. So focusing on the humans involved versus the business is usually the best way to approach most situations.

02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?

I would say, keep your mind open and proactively go after new opportunities and challenges. We tend to think of ourselves as one thing and pursue one linear path. But if we were to lean into our strengths, especially those transferable skills that we have, we could find that we can be great in many things. And in the era of AI, I think that idea of a generalist is super important, so build those capabilities in that toolbox early.

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