Valerie Fulbright

Valerie Fulbright is a Corporate Vice President, Talent & Total Rewards, with GTE Financial, located in Tampa. In this role, Valerie works closely with the Leadership Team providing solid strategic guidance on matters of significances in their business areas. She enjoys developing others and thus recently received her Certified Professional Coaching (“CPC”) designation. She also earned her Senior Professional Human Resources, (“SPHR”) certification.

Valerie has extensive expertise in a number of key areas of Human Resources, spanning more than 20 years, including; benefits, wellness and compensation design, HRIS system implementation, recruiting, selection, organizational effectiveness, labor, and employee relations, executive recruiting and coaching. Her expertise in Human Resources has significantly increase human resources effectiveness and credibility, while reducing cost, increasing revenue and achieving the “Best Place to Work” and “Healthiest Employer” designation in several organizations.

Prior to joining the Executive team at GTE, Valerie served as the Vice President, Human Resources for Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, MO. In a prior appointment, she served as the Senior Director of Organizational Development at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. She began her career at General Motors, while attending undergrad at the University of Michigan, where she received her Bachelor’s degree in 1982. She also holds a Masters, Human Resource Development from Webster University. She worked several years in global leadership roles in Telecom for Nortel Networks and Perot Systems, where she traveled extensively though out Canada and the United Kingdom.

Valerie is active in the community and serves on a number of boards, she was recently appointed to the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, Board of Directors, and serves on the Development and Executive Committee, and she is currently a member of the 2014 Executive Leadership Summit Planning Committee, Florida State Council. Valerie is also an active member of Society for Human Resource Management.