LaFawn Davis

Chief People Officer, Indeed

LaFawn Davis is the Chief People Officer at Indeed. Prior to this role, she served as Senior Vice President of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG), leading a team focused on AI ethics, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, accessibility, social impact, equitable hiring products, and environmental sustainability.

The ESG commitments towards the year 2030 are to reduce the environmental footprint, make job search faster and simpler, remove bias and barriers to employment, and build internal sustainable equity.

LaFawn is a globally recognised operator with 20 years of experience serving in leadership roles at innovative Fortune 50, 100 and unicorn technology companies. She is a frequent advisor, contributing writer and public speaker.

LaFawn has been named among Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Women of Impact, Fast Company’s Queer50 and San Francisco Business Times’s Most Influential Women in Business, and counted among Fortune’s Most Powerful Women.

She serves as a Board Director of the World Wellbeing Movement, an Advisory Board Member of Lesbians Who Tech and Power to Fly, a Limited Partner in Operator Collective, an Angel Investor and a Fellow of the Black Venture Institute.