Beth Axelrod is an American

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leader. She is currently an advisor at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at

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. From 2017 to 2021, she was the Vice President of Employee Experience at

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. Previous to that, she was Senior Vice President of human resources at

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from 2005 to 2015. Axelrod is a member of several corporate boards and academic advisory councils, including

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and the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at the

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School ( ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton ...

. She was formerly an advisory board member of Bulger Partners, YaleWomen, and UC Berkeley Executive Education.

Education

Axelrod received a BSE degree from

. She has a master's in public and private management (MPPM) from the

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Career

Axelrod started working at

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in 1989. In 2002, she was hired as the Chief Talent Officer for WPP. At WPP, she helped devise better ways to recruit and retain talented people for the company. In 2005, she was hired as the Senior Vice President of

. She retired from eBay in 2015 after the spin-off of PayPal and became the Vice President of Employee Experience at

in 2017. As of 2020, Beth is Vice President of Employee Experience at Airbnb, a vacation rental home website. She heads hiring to office environment to maintaining the employee benefits that Airbnb provides.

Publications

''The War For Talent'' is a book written in 2001 by Axelrod, Ed Michaels, and Helen Handfield-Jones. The book was based on the term ' war for talent' that was first coined at McKinsey & Co.

Politics

During the 2022 midterm election cycle, Axelrod donated to The Next 50, a Democratic

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References

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