JOY CORPORA

CHIEF PEOPLE & CULTURE OFFICER

Joy Corpora was hired right as the COVID-19 pandemic was being declared. This required her to develop relationships with our staff and leadership team in a virtual manner. She was responsible for the health and welfare of the staff and youth while partnering with our program team to ensure services could be safely delivered to our youth and young adults who needed our assistance more than ever. Despite the fact that managing COVID was a substantial effort, Corpora took the initiative to evaluate all our core human resources systems and business processes to make them more professional and appropriate for the increased size of our company, which has doubled over the last seven years to now over 175 employees. Corpora overhauled our new employee onboarding process and implemented an employee development tool called CultureAmp and a new payroll system. Her expertise in addressing employee performance issues and building a strong team has contributed to an overall culture that is now more unified and collaborative.

Like many organizations, we were impacted by the great resignation and, at the same time, we were adding staff for several new programs so recruiting and hiring the past two years has been extremely active. Corpora took the lead on recruiting for many of these positions in 2021 and 2022. In summary, Corpora has been a wonderful addition to the Orangewood Foundation team and has helped us grow and improve as an organization.