Lisa Tobio

Lisa Tobio is an HR Executive with over 25 years of experience in diverse industries such as Aerospace, automotive manufacturing, publishing, advertising, CPG, and distribution. Lisa holds a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. While her preferred role within HR is as a Business Partner, she has strong functional expertise in Compensation, Employee Relations, and Talent Management. 

Lisa is currently the Associate Director of Employee Relations for the School of Medicine at Yale University. In this role, she leads the Employee Relations function for the School of Medicine’s clinical operations and supporting departments. Adapting and creating policy for the patient-facing operations has been especially challenging since COVID-19 has changed the landscape of healthcare and employee and patient safety. 

Prior to Yale, she worked at Sysco Corporation for six years, her last role being Regional VP of HR for the Northeast. Helping develop a newly-created role, she was part of the inaugural regional team, comprised of leaders from significant functional areas. Leading a team of eleven senior HR executives at locations across the Northeast, she created strategies and drove initiatives to improve employee retention, positive employee relations, safety, and process standardization. 

Other roles provided opportunities to: lead division-wide training initiatives to standardize skill-based training for hourly employees; create HR strategies and processes for organizations undergoing significant change in structure and function, including compensation design, talent management programs, performance management, and organizational design; implement HRIS systems; and drive labor/management strategies to meet business objectives.