Shawnice Meador

Shawnice Meador (she/her) is the Senior Director of Global Talent Management at Wolfspeed, a semiconductor company headquartered in North Carolina.  She leads a team responsible for strategic talent programs and services across Wolfspeed, including talent pipelining, leadership development & succession planning, advanced manufacturing workforce development, education partnerships, and internal career development & coaching.

Shawnice has 29 years of corporate and higher education experience at General Motors, General Electric, Progress Energy Corporation, UNC, ABB, and Wolfspeed.  She is certified in numerous career management, leadership, and global cultural assessment tools and programs, through the Center for Creative Leadership, the Center for Credentialing and Education, the Cultural Intelligence Center, and others. Over the years, she’s served as an executive coach for 1,000+ working professionals, and has been featured as a talent management expert at global conferences and online publications including Forbes, US News & World Report, and others.

Shawnice has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Duke University, and she’s a proud member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). She resides in the RTP area with her husband and two teenage kiddos.