Traci Hughes

Former Executive Vice President, Global People Success Services, SAP

Traci is an executive leader who brings cross industry people and organization transformation experience, leading teams to work better together to achieve success.

Most recently, Traci was Executive Vice President, Head of Global People Success Services at SAP, the German Enterprise Resource Planning tech giant, where she transformed operational HR teams from siloed ways of working to a more integrated and collaborative approach. Prior to her enterprise-wide people leadership role at SAP, Traci had a long career at Colgate Palmolive, the global consumer products company, where she led HR for nearly every one of their regions. With an undergraduate degree in Human Resources and an MBA in Finance, Traci began her career in Total Rewards and credits that time for building the skill of utilizing data for informed decision making and storytelling.

In her many years of people leadership experience, transforming first herself and then the HR teams and the organizations she’s worked with, she’s worked across all geographies and has lived in 4 countries, a true global citizen. Passionate about learning, she is a Trustee at Ithaca College and an Advisor at degreed, the enterprise learning company.

An engaging speaker on leadership and change, Traci is a lifelong learner and avid traveler; curious about people, cultures, organizations and how they form systems. She takes that curiosity on the road with her (mostly willing) family and has been privileged to visit 60 countries.