Denise Gammal, Ph.D.
Senior Director - Diversity, Inclusion and Talent Innovation
Senior Director - Diversity, Inclusion and Talent Innovation
Denise Gammal leads Exponential Talent’s research efforts, enabling companies to increase and leverage diversity and build more inclusive workplaces.
Denise is adept at translating the best academic research and evidence-based practices into actionable solutions, focusing on analytics, benchmarking, and problem solving to develop diversity and inclusion strategies and implementation plans. She designs, develops, and implements programs and workshops. She facilitates and develops change management initiatives to foster more inclusive workplaces.
Prior to joining Exponential Talent, Denise led the Top Company for Women in Computing Initiative, a unique benchmarking program of the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) that evaluates the gender diversity of companies’ technical workforces. As ABI’s research director, she provided diversity expertise in several capacities including: writing papers on solutions to recruit, retain and advance women technologists; and providing data and research to media and companies.
She led the development of TechWomen – a global program of the US Department of State begun by Hillary Clinton – from inception through implementation in collaboration with the Institute of International Education. She subsequently expanded the Technical Executive Forum, an annual gathering of c-level technical executives, and other workshops.
Before ABI, Denise led research, evaluation and learning at United Way of the Bay Area. As Vice President for Strategy and Organizational Learning, she worked with partner programs in their planning, design, implementation, data analyses, and evaluation. She also produced a statewide poverty report, “Struggling to Make Ends Meet in California” and toolkits and case studies to spread best practices. Earlier, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Denise was Managing Director of a large-scale research study on organizational development and best practices.
Denise is a frequent presenter at company meetings and conferences and designs and facilitates focus groups and workshops. She has extensive experience supporting initiatives in technology and has a particular passion for supporting veterans’ transitions to the workforce as a key dimension of diversity. Her expertise includes qualitative and quantitative research, survey and interview design, curricula design and education, program development, metric development and analytics, and project management.
Denise is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, and a doctorate in social and political sciences from Cambridge University. She is an alumna and speaker for Leadership San Francisco.
Denise is adept at translating the best academic research and evidence-based practices into actionable solutions, focusing on analytics, benchmarking, and problem solving to develop diversity and inclusion strategies and implementation plans. She designs, develops, and implements programs and workshops. She facilitates and develops change management initiatives to foster more inclusive workplaces.
Prior to joining Exponential Talent, Denise led the Top Company for Women in Computing Initiative, a unique benchmarking program of the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) that evaluates the gender diversity of companies’ technical workforces. As ABI’s research director, she provided diversity expertise in several capacities including: writing papers on solutions to recruit, retain and advance women technologists; and providing data and research to media and companies.
She led the development of TechWomen – a global program of the US Department of State begun by Hillary Clinton – from inception through implementation in collaboration with the Institute of International Education. She subsequently expanded the Technical Executive Forum, an annual gathering of c-level technical executives, and other workshops.
Before ABI, Denise led research, evaluation and learning at United Way of the Bay Area. As Vice President for Strategy and Organizational Learning, she worked with partner programs in their planning, design, implementation, data analyses, and evaluation. She also produced a statewide poverty report, “Struggling to Make Ends Meet in California” and toolkits and case studies to spread best practices. Earlier, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Denise was Managing Director of a large-scale research study on organizational development and best practices.
Denise is a frequent presenter at company meetings and conferences and designs and facilitates focus groups and workshops. She has extensive experience supporting initiatives in technology and has a particular passion for supporting veterans’ transitions to the workforce as a key dimension of diversity. Her expertise includes qualitative and quantitative research, survey and interview design, curricula design and education, program development, metric development and analytics, and project management.
Denise is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, and a doctorate in social and political sciences from Cambridge University. She is an alumna and speaker for Leadership San Francisco.