Jeanne Achille

Rutgers Center for Women in Business (CWIB) is a powerful alliance of academic and corporate thought leaders advocating and providing solutions for workplaces of inclusion and belonging. CWIB's data-driven insights and research are helping to keep talented, skilled, and qualified women in the workplace. More information is available at https://women.business.rutgers.edu/

Core to our firm’s continued success is the newly created role of Chief Strategy Officer. In this capacity, I’m responsible for helping our clients address their business challenges and commitments through well-designed analyst, media and content strategies. For The Devon Group, I’m developing new service offerings to drive Devon’s data-driven global market expansion. Time and time again, great communications programs are validated for their ability to unite teams, accelerate corporate growth through demand generation, and build leadership pipelines. While “the how” we do it is always changing, getting the right messages to the right audiences at the right time remains our primary focus.

Hosted by Jeanne Achille and Kate Achille of The Devon Group, the Up Next @ Work podcast tackles tough workplace ideas through spirited conversations. Featuring great minds from various industries, Up Next @ Work examines current challenges and coming changes related to people, processes, and technologies.

I'm the program chair for the HR Tech Online Conference as well as the Women in HR Tech Summit at the HR Technology Conference & Exposition. The 2026 dates for the #HRTechConf are October 20-22 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

Founded, own and operate one of the longest-standing independent tech PR firms. Serving ascending and established brands, Devon's practice areas include HR best practices, HR technology, AI, all things data & analytics, sales performance management, cybersecurity, fintech and professional services. Over the course of 25+ years, we've had the privilege of launching and representing thousands of tech products and hundreds of companies - such as AllyO (HireVue), Atana, Blue Martini Software (Escalate), CloudPay, CuroComp (PayScale), Fidelity, Flarion (Qualcomm), HireVue, Jobs2Web (SAP), Kashable, Kenexa (IBM), Laszlo Systems (Critical Path), Lucent, lynda.com (LinkedIn), Manpower, Mercer, PandoLogic (Veritone), Qualtrics (SAP), Randstad, Salary.com, SmashFly (Symphony Talent) & Work Market (ADP) - across the U.S., Canada, U.K., Europe, APAC and Australia/New Zealand. Team Devon has also been recognized with numerous awards for content development, media placements, creative thought leadership campaigns and event management.

Knology is a collective of over 30 scientists, writers, and educators dedicated to using research to untangle complex social issues. Equity, transparency, and deliberation are the foundation of its work process. These perspectives are informed by its team’s range of personal, professional, and academic experience in fields such as cognitive science, linguistic anthropology, human rights education, political science, and conservation psychology.

The HCM and HR Technology markets have very unique subcultures, buying cycles, technical priorities, and ecosystems. Understanding that context is the learning curve for the competent people who arrive without market understanding. With co-presenter John Sumser of HRExaminer, we deliver the one-day indoctrination in HR Tech market realities and opportunities.

Talentegy’s technology analyzes data on career sites and throughout a company’s various talent acquisition technologies (career website, ATS, CRM and more) to help analyze and identify candidate behaviors, content engagement, candidate exits and accurate applicant sources. The company was acquired by Jobvite in September 2020.

The creators of Human Resource Executive® and HR Technology Conference & Exposition® launched Select HR Tech, a brand-new, immersive and roll-up-your-sleeves experience for HR executives. I was honored to program this first-ever event with top-tier #HRTech experts as speakers. Unfortunately, the pandemic impacted our plans and we weren't able to hold the June 2020 event in Las Vegas.

The Supreme Court Committee on Attorney Advertising consists of seven elected members, five of whom are members of the bar and two of whom are public members. The Advertising Committee has the exclusive authority to consider requests for advisory opinions and ethics grievances concerning the compliance of advertisements and other related communications with Rules of Professional Conduct. During my two year term, I participated in monthly review meetings during which cases were reviewed and resolved. My role was similar to that of an expert witness: to render an opinion based on the case facts presented specific to the modes and scope of attorney advertising and communications.

Founded in 1970 by three former NASA employees, Xylogics was a publicly held manufacturer of disk controllers and networking hardware. The company was acquired by Bay Networks and, subsequently, by Nortel. Products were sold through channels and partnerships; Sun Microsystems was one of Xylogics' largest customers. I was the company's first marketing executive, managing a multi-million dollar budget and directing a team of seven professionals who were responsible for brand, demand generation (including telemarketing), trade shows and customer events, corporate and partner PR, awards marketing, speaker bureau, content development, and product marketing.