In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Kalifa Oliver, Global Head of People Listening, Research and Insights at WPP. Within her current role, she develops and designs employee listening strategies, people and related data architecture, governance and visualization tools aimed at enhancing the employee experience and increasing the quality of executive business decisions.

Kalifa Oliver, Ph.D. is the Global Head of People Listening, Research, and Insights at WPP where she develops and designs employee listening strategies people and related data architecture, governance and visualization tools aimed at enhancing the employee experience and increasing the quality of executive business decisions. Prior to this she served as a Senior Vice President at Wells Fargo as the Head of Business Enablement where she developed engagement, experience, and talent risk mitigation strategy for the bank’s critical Payments, Virtual Solutions, and Innovation (PVSI) Control function. She also served as the Head of the Enterprise Team Member Listening function with HR at Wells Fargo. In that role she was responsible for executing the company’s continuous listening and employee experience strategies which include life cycle, pulse, and annual surveys. Before going to Wells Fargo, she worked as a research and survey analytics manager at Walmart’s Global People function focused on designing a more continuous listening strategy.