Amy Cappellanti-Wolf
Amy Cappellanti-Wolf empowers leaders to navigate transformation and build high-performing, people-first organizations.
Why you should book speaker Amy Cappellant-Wolf
- Learn how to lead organizations through complex transformations, from rapid growth to M&A and cultural reinvention.
- Gain insights from a Chief People Officer with experience across tech, entertainment, and global enterprises.
- Discover practical strategies to build high-performance teams and inclusive, future-ready workplaces.
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Chief People Officer driving transformation, culture, and leadership at scale
Amy Cappellanti-Wolf is an Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Dayforce, where she leads people strategy for a global HCM platform spanning payroll, HR, benefits, talent, and workforce management. With a career shaped across startups and Fortune 500 companies, she brings a sharp, experience-driven perspective on how organizations evolve, scale, and succeed. Amy is known for guiding leadership teams through moments that define a business, whether it’s rapid growth, transformation, or cultural change, while keeping people at the center of it all.
Amy Cappellanti-Wolf Speaker Profile
Amy Cappellanti-Wolf is a seasoned executive, transformation leader, and Chief People Officer at Dayforce, where she shapes global people strategies across a comprehensive human capital management platform. Her work spans payroll, HR, benefits, talent, and workforce management, giving her a holistic view of how organizations operate and grow through their people.
With a career built across both high-growth startups and global enterprises, Amy brings a grounded, practical approach to leadership and transformation. She understands what it takes to scale organizations, align leadership teams, and build cultures that perform under pressure.
Book Amy Cappellanti-Wolf for Your Event
Amy Cappellanti-Wolf is a compelling speaker for organizations facing change, growth, or reinvention. She speaks with clarity and authority on the realities of transformation—what works, what doesn’t, and how leaders can navigate complexity without losing focus on people.
Her key speaking topics include:
- Business transformation and change management
- Building high-performance leadership teams
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion as a business driver
- Organizational design and process optimization
- Total rewards and employee engagement strategies
Amy’s sessions combine strategic insight with real-world experience, making them highly relevant for executives, HR leaders, and organizations preparing for their next phase.
Leadership Across Industries
Amy’s leadership journey spans multiple industries, giving her a broad and nuanced perspective. She has held senior roles across high-tech companies such as Cohesity, Symantec, Silver Spring Networks, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems. Her experience also includes global brands like The Walt Disney Company in entertainment and Frito-Lay in consumer goods.
This cross-industry background allows her to connect patterns, challenges, and opportunities that many leaders face, regardless of sector. She brings examples that resonate across audiences and translates complex challenges into actionable strategies.
Expertise in Transformation and Culture
At the core of Amy’s work is transformation. She has led organizations through pre-IPO stages, rapid scaling, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and deep cultural change. These are moments where leadership is tested, and Amy’s approach focuses on aligning people, processes, and purpose.
She works closely with executive teams to build high-performance leadership cultures. Her expertise includes designing organizations that are agile and resilient, while ensuring that employees remain engaged and motivated through periods of uncertainty.
Amy also places strong emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion, not as standalone initiatives, but as integrated elements of business success. She helps organizations embed inclusive practices into leadership, structure, and everyday decision-making.
Board Experience and Recognition
Beyond her executive role, Amy Cappellanti-Wolf has contributed at the board level, bringing her expertise to organizations navigating growth and performance challenges. She served on the Board of Directors and as Compensation Committee Chair for Softchoice, and also held board roles with Betterworks, where she contributed both as a director and HR Advisory Member.
She has also been a Board Advisor to Wellist, supporting innovation in personalized, real-time engagement and care navigation. In addition, she is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Her contributions have been widely recognized. Amy was named to the 2022 class of Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, honored on the Roll of Distinguished Alumni at West Virginia University’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics, and recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women Tech Leaders by the National Diversity Council.
Education and Foundation
Amy holds a Master of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Public Relations, both from West Virginia University. This combination of business, people strategy, and communication has shaped her ability to lead with clarity and impact.
Why Amy Cappellanti-Wolf
Amy Cappellanti-Wolf brings a rare mix of executive experience, transformation expertise, and human-centered leadership. She speaks to the realities leaders face today complexity, speed, and constant change, while offering clear, actionable ways forward.
For organizations looking to build stronger cultures, lead through transformation, and unlock performance through people, Amy delivers insights that stay with audiences long after the event ends.
Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Amy Cappellanti-Wolf:
Technology and its impact on HR's Effectiveness
Technology runs today's workplace but what role does it play for a department that has the word "human" in its title? Racing through rapid-fire business acquisitions, Amy Cappellanti-Wolf had to find the best path to leverage technology without losing the focus on employees.
In this session:
Simply put, Amy will deliver the tools you need to build an HR strategy that can solve real business problems while keeping the "human" in "Human Resources."
In this session:
Simply put, Amy will deliver the tools you need to build an HR strategy that can solve real business problems while keeping the "human" in "Human Resources."
Keynote by speaker :
Navigating Change Management in M&A and Divestitures Through People.
Changes can range from rebranding company assets, ensuring employee alignment with the newly formed organization's goals, to retaining key employees. Companies must also implement a comprehensive communication plan that addresses leadership, acquired employees, current employees, customers, and vendors.
In this session:
Amy demonstrates change management life-cycle process through a recent use case.
Providing an outline with a tracks to help leaders and employees navigate the deal.
Reviewing how to stabilize and optimize the new organization to realize the deals full value.
Before leaving, attendees will understand how a disciplined approach to change management that views employees as key stakeholders dramatically improves the odds for a smooth transition.
In this session:
Amy demonstrates change management life-cycle process through a recent use case.
Providing an outline with a tracks to help leaders and employees navigate the deal.
Reviewing how to stabilize and optimize the new organization to realize the deals full value.
Before leaving, attendees will understand how a disciplined approach to change management that views employees as key stakeholders dramatically improves the odds for a smooth transition.
Keynote by speaker Amy Cappellanti- Wolf:
Surviving and thriving throughout enterprise transformation.
Executive teams are facing multiple and complex demands arising from changing market pressures, disruptive technology, acquisitions and competition for talent. CEOs and their surrounding teams know that attention to top and bottom lines is crucial.
Today's enterprise is a complicated, open and alive system that must keep adapting to change. Thriving through transformation requires prioritizing people throughout.
In this session:
Laying out the challenges companies are facing,
Providing processes and systems that have been successfully implemented to prioritize talent during change,
Helping HR leaders successfully navigate change.
Today's enterprise is a complicated, open and alive system that must keep adapting to change. Thriving through transformation requires prioritizing people throughout.
In this session:
Laying out the challenges companies are facing,
Providing processes and systems that have been successfully implemented to prioritize talent during change,
Helping HR leaders successfully navigate change.
Keynote by speaker Amy Cappellanti- Wolf:
Developing a High Performance Culture That Enables Your Company to Grow and Thrive
According to LSA Global, a consulting firm specializing in culture and talent, companies that align culture with business have 58% more growth and 72% more profitability. They have three times the customer satisfaction, two times the customer retention, eight times leadership effectiveness and over 17 times more employee engagement.
Every culture is unique to the company and the culture reinforces the company when it is well defined. Yet, only companies that can relate their cultures directly to their business strategy will perform and grow. What role does culture play in the growth of a company? How can we enable culture to grow our business? What processes can we implement to ensure our culture optimizes our business strategy?
In this session:
Speaker Amy Cappellanti-Wolf, explores how culture and business strategy go hand in hand, and demonstrate how culture is a key enabler for growing the business.
Using real life examples, Amy will explain how to integrate business strategy with culture, and lay out proven tools, processes and systems to develop a strong culture that helps the business grow and thrive.
Every culture is unique to the company and the culture reinforces the company when it is well defined. Yet, only companies that can relate their cultures directly to their business strategy will perform and grow. What role does culture play in the growth of a company? How can we enable culture to grow our business? What processes can we implement to ensure our culture optimizes our business strategy?
In this session:
Speaker Amy Cappellanti-Wolf, explores how culture and business strategy go hand in hand, and demonstrate how culture is a key enabler for growing the business.
Using real life examples, Amy will explain how to integrate business strategy with culture, and lay out proven tools, processes and systems to develop a strong culture that helps the business grow and thrive.
Keynote by speaker Amy Cappellanti- Wolf:
Keys to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Most global businesses today have wide ranging customer sets, with multinational needs and solutions. Those that are well positioned for success will have workforce's resembling the customer base and community as a whole.
Without diversity of thought and experience, the customer base cannot be understood or properly served. Diversity in the workforce and equal treatment are therefore prerequisites for any successful organization. In order to represent everybody -not just a segment of the employees, businesses must remove biases, get the best and brightest in the war for talent and embrace all the different benefits diversity brings for their customers.
In this session:
Explaining the critical need for a diverse and inclusive business environment and the effectiveness of the "diversity multiplier".Also, sharing practices she has put in place to help leverage the power of inclusion.
Exploring how having a strong talent and workforce strategy results in amazing dividends for all customers and shareholders.
Without diversity of thought and experience, the customer base cannot be understood or properly served. Diversity in the workforce and equal treatment are therefore prerequisites for any successful organization. In order to represent everybody -not just a segment of the employees, businesses must remove biases, get the best and brightest in the war for talent and embrace all the different benefits diversity brings for their customers.
In this session:
Explaining the critical need for a diverse and inclusive business environment and the effectiveness of the "diversity multiplier".Also, sharing practices she has put in place to help leverage the power of inclusion.
Exploring how having a strong talent and workforce strategy results in amazing dividends for all customers and shareholders.
Amy on how optimizing your employees and workforce:
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