Extensive experience | Microsoft announces new CPO Amy Coleman to lead HR strategy

Microsoft has appointed company veteran Amy Coleman as its new executive vice president and chief people officer, succeeding Kathleen Hogan after her decade-long tenure in the role.

Hogan will transition to a newly created Office of Strategy and Transformation, which expands the CEO’s office. In her new role, she will remain an executive vice president and continue reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella.

Coleman steps into a significant position, with Microsoft employing 228,000 people globally as of June 2024. She has been with the company for over 25 years across two separate stints, having first joined as a compensation manager in 1996. Most recently, she served as corporate vice president for human resources and corporate functions, where she led a 200-person HR team and played a key role in Microsoft’s hybrid work model and Covid-19 response strategy.

Extensive HR experience

Coleman’s background includes HR leadership roles supporting Microsoft’s engineering, sales, marketing, and business development teams. Over the past six years, she has advised both Hogan and Nadella, overseeing initiatives that influenced the company’s workplace culture, employee engagement model, and crisis response strategy.