Lauren Starkand

Lauren Starkand

Sr. Talent Partner
Mercer

Lauren Starkand is a talent executive at Marsh (formerly Marsh McLennan), where her work has centered on talent strategy, early careers, and career development. She built her career leading talent and diversity functions at large financial and technology employers before moving into her current role.

A career built on talent strategy at scale

Starkand's background spans some of the largest talent organizations in financial services and tech. Earlier in her career, she held the role of Director, Talent Management and Diversity and Inclusion for the Global Consumer Bank at Citi, where she worked on talent and diversity strategy across a large, global workforce. She later moved to Stripe, reportedly leading talent strategy and career development work there, before joining Marsh. Her public commentary has touched on total rewards, skills based talent approaches, and how generative AI is starting to shape performance and career development work.

Topics Lauren speaks on

  • Talent strategy and career development
  • Early careers and career pathing
  • Diversity and inclusion in talent management
  • Skills based approaches to talent
  • Total rewards and employee experience

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