Amber Acosta

About Amber Acosta

Energetic and highly skilled diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging professional with demonstrated leadership, learning, and professional development for diverse business leaders at all levels in professional services, higher education and nonprofit industries. Inclusive leader in human resources who designs and implements strategy into diverse hiring, inclusive business practices, and strong employee engagement using data & analytics, employee engagement surveys, and customized training.Career Highlights:• Launched early identification programs and initiatives for diverse early talent, resulting in doubling program participants and exceeding 70% gender diversity and 50% underrepresented minority metrics for North America.• Partnerships with over 50 corporate partners, 70 university partners, and several nonprofits on strategic planning for the recruitment and retention of top female talent, engagement of business leaders on gender equity, and highlighting the impact on business, resulting in over 50% increase in the female talent pipeline.• Excellent analytical skills by leveraging data to measure success of existing DEIB initiatives to inform opportunities for new initiatives, such as launch of Hispanic employee resource group for underserved population, mentorship programs for 200 diverse professionals, rotational programs for 70 diverse professionals, and early identification programs for over 250 early talent interns.• Solid understanding and experience on how business segments and Human Resources collaborate to drive Diversity and Inclusion results, such as exceeding diversity metrics by 25-50%• Skilled in facilitation of inclusive training, difficult dialogues, learning and community-building, technology, leadership development, entrepreneurship education, equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging initiatives and interpersonal communication. Certified Gallup Strengths Coach and expertise in other leadership development toolsExperience with various Learning Management Systems, Applicant Tracking Systems, Customer Relationship Management, Qualtrics & other survey tools, Microsoft Office suite, Adobe Acrobat suite, and Google suiteSpecialties: Leadership Development | Advising + Coaching | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging | Instructional Design | Curriculum Development | Operations | Process Development + Improvement | Program + Event Planning | Creation + Delivery of Training Material | Public Speaking | Leadership Education | Program + Team Maximization | Assessment + Data Analysis | Onboarding | Strategic Planning

Experience

1. Inclusion Senior Manager

   Protiviti

   Jan 2026 — Present

Education

• The University of Texas at El Paso

  Bachelor's Degree, Organizational Communication, General

• Texas A&M University

  Master's Degree, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

• The University of Texas at El Paso

  Bachelor's degree, Organizational Communication, General

• Texas A&M University

  Master's degree, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

Skills

• Leadership Development
• Leadership
• Grant Writing
• Teaching
• Public Speaking
• Student Development
• Event Planning
• Higher Education
• Microsoft Office
• Community Outreach
• Student Affairs
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel