DeLisa Alexander

599 points

Red Hat

DeLisa Alexander | DeLisa is Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Red Hat. Under her leadership, this team focuses on acquiring, developing, and retaining talent and enhancing the Red Hat culture and brand. In her nearly 15 years with the company, DeLisa has also worked in the Office of General Counsel, where she wrote Red Hat's first subscription agreement and closed the first deals with its OEMs. Today in leading the company's global human resources and employment branding teams, DeLisa is especially interested in encouraging programs spotlighting women and diversity. Outside of the office, she enjoys boating with her family and wine tasting, particularly if there's a Napa cabernet to be had.

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Authored Content

Let's be real: Diversity and inclusion is a business issue

If the problem is a struggle to innovate, then the solution is greater diversity and inclusion.

What is open leadership?

A specific fusion of behaviors and mindsets characterizes the next generation of leaders.

neon sign with head outline and open source why spelled out

How do you explain your organization's purpose? 3 lessons from Red Hat

We recently engaged 10,000 people in the process of crafting a statement about why we exist. Here's what we learned.

A community-powered approach to diversity and inclusion

We took an open approach to publishing our company's diversity statistics. Here's what we learned.

How 10,000 people helped us rediscover our purpose

Sustaining, evolving, and growing your open organization's unique culture will be one of your greatest leadership challenges. Here's how we're doing it.

How a leader can move forward without consensus

Pushing a project ahead without absolute agreement is still possible—maybe even preferable.

Contributed Content

Introducing the Open Management Practices

What does great management look like in an open organization? DeLisa Alexander of Red Hat explains a new, open resource that paints one vision.

Authored Comments

DeLisa

2 Feb 2011

Telling the open source story - Part 2

Jelly makes a point that really resonates to me: you don't really know the power of a story until you share it. To me this says, in part, don't assume that your story won't move someone else. Thanks for sharing this conversation!

DeLisa

26 Jul 2010

Fear of failure? Embrace it by failing fast.

Thanks for the sharing,very insightful comment. I think course corrections, without judgment is a great way of phrasing what happens when things are working.