PASADENA, CA, September 16, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Ekta Vyas has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Dr. Vyas has established a distinguished career in human resources leadership, organizational development and academia, marked by progressive roles across major health systems, academic institutions and global organizations.

Since 2022, Dr. Vyas has served as chief human resources officer at Keck Medicine of USC. In this capacity, she oversees human resources for theentire health enterprise, which encompasses four hospitals and more than 90 ambulatory locations, as well as three clinics in Las Vegas with a fourth scheduled to open. As the principal human resources executive for the system, Dr. Vyas leads a complex reporting structure involving multiple leaders of human resources across different hospitals and ambulatory sites. She reports directly to the chief executive officer of the health system and serves as the chief strategic business advisor on human resources matters to executive leadership. Her portfolio includes talent acquisition, compensation, employee labor relations, organizational development, learning, internal communications, inclusion and culture, and event management. Notably, she spearheaded the workforce integration of USC Arcadia following its acquisition by Keck Medicine of USC in July 2022, initiating a comprehensive three-year plan for full workforce integration by 2025.

Dr. Vyas is also an adjunct professor of management and organization at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, a role she has held since 2023. She continues to make significant contributions to academic discourse and professional development in the field of management education.

From 2020 to 2022, Dr. Vyas served as deputy chief human resources officer for UC Davis Health. In this executive position, she provided strategic leadership for the human resources function and team across UC Davis Health's workforce of approximately 15,000 employees. Her oversight extended to the medical center, all ambulatory locations, the UC Davis School of Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. As a key member of the system-wide human resources leadership team and an executive partner to the chief executive officer's team, Dr. Vyas played a pivotal role in shaping organizational policy and program development during COVID. Her major accomplishment at UC Davis Health was the launch of Digital Workplace program, one of the first comprehensively designed and deployed remote work program in the healthcare industry.

Her tenure at Stanford Medicine Enterprise spanned over 14 years, beginning in 2006 at Stanford University Medical Center. Initially serving as a compensation manager responsible for operations, performance management, and compensation programs for both adult and pediatric hospitals, Dr. Vyas was promoted in 2009 to director of total rewards and recognition. She managed these programs until late 2012 when the two hospitals became separate employers.

Choosing to remain with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford as it evolved into Stanford Children's Health, Dr. Vyas assumed additional functions and stayed with the organization as the executive director of human resources from 2013 to 2020. Her responsibilities at Stanford Children's expanded significantly to include talent acquisition, workforce planning, and people analytics - functions that she established from inception, as well as serving as executive human resources business partner for all non-clinical areas including strategy and planning, corporate marketing and communications, information technology, accounting and finance, and government and community relations. In 2018, she assumed responsibility for diversity and inclusion initiatives by establishing the organization's first DE&I function and representing the hospital on the Stanford Medicine diversity cabinet.

Dr. Vyas's academic contributions are equally notable. From 2017 to 2023, she served as adjunct faculty at San Jose State University's Lucas College & Graduate School of Business, before joining the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business as an adjunct professor six months later. Over nine years she taught at leading institutions while maintaining her leadership roles in academic medical centers.

Before her time at Stanford Medicine Enterprise, Dr. Vyas began her career in the United States at San Jose State University's human resources department, following her 2002 terminal master's degree in industrial-organizational psychology. From 2002 to 2006, she led talent management and workforce planning programs at San Jose State University—the largest campus within California State University, where her responsibilities included compensation, recruitment, HRIS administration, performance management and organizational development along with union bargaining activities.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Vyas worked as an HR/OD consultant for Zomax Incorporated from 2001 to 2002 while completing her master's degree. Reporting directly to the global vice president of human resources at Zomax Incorporated, a company headquartered in Ireland with U.S. operations, she developed a global compensation program. She addressed high turnover rates at their Concord call center through innovative recruitment and retention strategies, including a personality inventory that became her master's thesis.

Between 1999 and 2001, Dr. Vyas undertook consulting projects with several Silicon Valley firms, including IBM, where she assessed mid-level manager productivity, Turbo Linux, where she developed an employee survey and Hampton Real Estate, where she conducted needs analysis for change management interventions during organizational restructuring.

Before relocating to the United States in March 1998, Dr. Vyas served as personnel manager at Bikaner Ceramics Private Limited in India from 1995 to 1998, where she facilitated policy implementation and employee relations.

Dr. Vyas is recognized for her active involvement in professional organizations, including serving on the board of directors for International Association for Human Resources Information Management from 2019-2022, and membership in CHIEF, the Academy of Management, the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration, the Forbes Human Resources Council, the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, HR People + Strategy, Human Capital Institute, the Society for Human Resource Management, the SHRM Executive Network and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

Her educational background includes a Doctor of Philosophy in organization and management from Capella University, completed in 2015, a Master of Science in industrial-organizational psychology from San Jose State University, earned in 2002, and a bachelor's degree from Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, awarded in 1995.

Dr. Vyas holds numerous certifications that have contributed to her expertise, including strategic HR business partner from Human Capital Institute, emotional intelligence assessor & coach from Six Seconds, human capital strategist from Human Capital Institute in 2015, power of personal brand coaching from Brand Tool Box Ltd 2014, strategic human resource practitioner from Cornell University ILR School, compensation & benefits specialty certificate and senior human resources professional designation from San Jose State University, and senior certified professional from Society for Human Resource Management.

Her civic engagement includes advisory board membership with Marcus Evans HealthCare Leaders advisory board since 2025, HR.com's HR Skills & Strategies Research initiative since 2024; membership on the SoCal CHRO Governing Board since 2024; advisor member with Perceptyx since 2022; alumni professional mentor with San Jose State University since 2018; mentor with SIOP Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs since 2018; and board member with International Association for Human Resources Information Management since 2019. Dr. Vyas has received numerous accolades, including Becker's Healthcare Top Chief HR Officers and Chief People Officers to Know in 2025, Top Five Visionary CHROs Defining Healthcare's Next Era by Insights Care Magazine in 2025, 2025 Women of Influence Honoree by SUCCESS, and World's Most Empowering Women Leaders to Follow by World's Leaders Magazine in 2025. She also received the award for Ten Most Influential HR Executives to Follow by The Chief Navigator in 2024, the PRSA-LA HR Annual Report in 2023, and the Top Twenty-Five Healthcare HR Leaders to Follow by Perceptyx in 2022.

In April 2024, Dr. Vyas appeared in TEDx Santa Barbara Salon, Making Waves: Conversations with Influencers and Disruptors. Her talk was titled: "Reciprocate to Transform: The Power of Collective Organizational Consciousness.

She is an accomplished author and speaker whose works include "Company Culture Contradictions Impact Your Collective Mindset" published by Forbes HR Council; "Aligning Fundamentals Of Growth In Today's VUCA Environment" published by Forbes HR Council; "An Evidence-Based Approach to Virtual Workforce Programmes" published in Management in Healthcare: A Peer-Reviewed Journal; "Embracing The Workforce's New Power-Trust Dynamics" published by Forbes.com; "Mission Matters: World's Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Top Tips To Success" (Business Leaders Vol Seven Edition Two) published in 2022; "Key Strategies for Leading Culture Change" published by Forbes.com; "What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About Change" published by Forbes.com since 2020. Similarly, she wrote "Leadership Playbook - Interview and Feature" published by ProFile Magazine; "Role of Technology in Transforming the HR Space" published by CIO Applications; "Mastering the New World of Managing Performance" published by Forbes.com; "Leading Evolutionary Change with Emotional Intelligence" published by Forbes.com; "The Changing Role of Talent Architects" published by Forbes.com; "Applying Consumerism to the HR Landscape: A Corporate Brand Promise Delivered Through Recruitment Strategy" published by People + Strategy Journal; "Relationship between Healthcare Leaders' Emotional Intelligence and Staff Work Engagement during Transformational Change" published by International Journal of Strategic Management and "Research Report: Leadership EQ and Work Engagement in Healthcare" published on Six Seconds Website.

Throughout her career, Dr. Vyas has demonstrated exceptional leadership across health care systems, academia, consulting projects, civic engagement initiatives, professional associations, publications, research contributions, mentoring activities, certifications, awards and recognitions, all underscoring her influence on contemporary human resources practice, organizational strategy, workforce transformation, diversity, equity and inclusion, thought leadership, talent development, change management, analytics-driven decision making, culture building and communication innovation within complex organizations globally.

Dr. Vyas is married to Manish Raj, a technocrat and entrepreneur. They have two boys, Aniket (23) and Abhishek (20). Aniket is a software engineer and Abhishek is a Junior at USC.

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