Workplace Wellness: Driving Employee Participation and Supporting New Initiatives

Gina Bowen is a change management and internal communications expert at Whirlpool Corporation, where she provides strategic HR communications leadership engaging over 61,000 employees across the globe. She leverages her expertise in team culture, visioning, and change management to create communication strategies that inform, inspire and care for employees -- allowing teams to focus on Whirlpool's vision of improving life at home. Bowen earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and brings over twenty years of experience at Whirlpool, ranging from manufacturing Human Resources to strategic change management and communications within the North American Operations organization and most recently, internal communications for Global HR. She is also a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner. For the past ten years she has successfully navigated a remote work environment, proving a career that breeds fulfillment and flexibility allows employees to bring their best self every day.

Andie Riley joined Whirlpool Corporation in 2016 as an internal communications manager supporting major transformation projects in Human Resources. Since 2021, Riley has led a team of communicators focused on being strategic advisors for global priority initiatives in Human Resources, including the talent and total rewards centers of excellence. Partnering with executive leadership, she ensures Whirlpool employees are informed, inspired and connected to the company's vision of improving life at home. Prior to Whirlpool, Riley worked in internal communications at Alcoa, developing and executing communications for a 2,600-employee manufacturing facility. Riley's career began in advertising as a graphic designer and her passion for visual communications informs her work to this day. Riley holds a Bachelor's degree in graphic design from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Since then she has learned more about aluminum and appliances than she ever could have imagined.