Diana has been a “first” in many of the positions she held. After graduating from Loyola Law School, Diana took a year off to care for her son who was born two months after graduation. When she entered the legal workforce, she went to work for a boutique employment firm. Within two years the firm split up, and Diana was recruited by Southern California Edison Company, which was bringing the labor law practice in-house.
Diana was the first to conduct an in-house labor arbitration – which she won – and was sought after by the in-house clients for advice and counsel. After two years on the job, she was both the first lawyer and first female promoted out of the law department, moving to an HR managerial position over the opportunities to manage a Steam Station or to lobby in front of the public utilities commission. Thereafter, Diana was promoted twice, and was elected Corporate Secretary of Southern California Edison Company and its holding company, SCECorp. She was the sole female officer in a cohort of 17 men. While Corporate Secretary, her third child was born. (Diana still holds the record as the only Edison officer ever to be pregnant while in office!)
After two years as Secretary, she was asked to take on the HR Director position at The Times Mirror Company, the parent company of 20+ media organizations comprised of newspapers, training companies, book companies, etc. Responsible for the full range of workforce policies and programs, her department included pay and performance management, employee relations, and all insured and qualified benefit programs. She spearheaded a company-wide human resources re-engineering project and a separate nationwide diversity task force, implemented a cutting-edge competency-based pay and performance management system, and oversaw standardization of benefit programs that covered over 25,000 employees and their dependents.
When she left Times Mirror, she turned down several senior HR executive officer positions in favor of starting the Organizational Effectiveness Group. Along the way, Diana received awards from the YWCA, the NAACP and the NWPC. Diana is a bestselling author.
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