Isaias Zamarripa is a national speaker, consultant and trainer on the topics of Diversity & Inclusion, Talent Acquisition Strategy, Employee Resource impact. Isaias recently left BMS where he was leading the Employee Resource Groups as the Director of Strategy & Operations. The PBRGs are made up of 8 groups that have over 12500 unique individuals , 150 chapters in over 43 countries and managing a 7 million dollar budget. . Isaias has over 35 years experience working inside fortune 100 companies like: Johnson Controls as the Director of Global Workforce Diversity, Darden Corporation as the Director of Diversity & Inclusion and for a decade as the Director of Talent Acquisition & Diversity at General Mills in Minneapolis, MN.  Early in his career he worked for Exxon and Amoco both in Talent Acquisition. He has  also ran his own consulting firm Three Degrees from Isaias for 6 years. He says his mantra is to help change the color of corporate America. Isaias graduated from the Columbia Business School with an MBA in Human Resource Management.  He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Marquette University where he was a recipient of a full tuition scholarship.

Isaias expertise lies in creating Talent Acquisition Strategies that deliver diverse candidates by using not only branding and outreach strategies to campus and professional organizations but using Employee Resource Groups as a search and retention engine. Over the his years of experience Isaias has led ERGs and Recruiting Groups to win awards and be seen as best in class in the industry. When he was recently at JCI he quadrupled the hires from Diversity Engineering Conferences. At Darden he rebranded the old Employee Associations and turned them into Employee Resource Groups that created ROI and gained the support of the business. At General Mills he created a Employee Referral program called Bring a Friend that generated over 3 million dollars in savings over the 8 years he ran the program. Isaias also led the Hispanic Employee Resource Group at General Mills to grow exponentially and lead to the highest number of Hispanic Managers in the history of General Mills. 

Another area of expertise for Isaias is developing training programs around Diversity & Inclusion in corporate america. He has not only created the training but led the training both at group levels and coaching executives on the impact of D&I in their business. As a consultant he has helped companies create custom training, based on their needs in D&I , Talent Acquisition, ERG leadership to name a few areas.

Isaias has been speaking on the national level for the last 3 decades at NSHMBA, NBMBAA, SHPE, NSBE, NCLR, CGSM and NALC to name a few. His ability to understand your hiring numbers and present process and make improvements that create an impact is his biggest asset. He is used to dealing with the C-Suite Leadership in creating Diversity Scorecards that make a difference and that become part of the new culture. When he was consulting he worked across all types of companies like Ecolab, Travelers, Wrigley, General Mills, Exxon and Medtronics to name a few.