Pamela Culpepper, UALR’s 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, will give a lecture about workplace flexibility and productivity Thursday, March 17, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

The lecture, “The No. 1 Workplace Trend for 2016: Workplace Flexibility,” will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. March 17 in the Student Services Center Auditorium. Culpepper will share her experience in organizational leadership to discuss the construct of workplace flexibility and how it affects organizational and workplace productivity.

Culpepper serves as chief people officer of Golin, a global communications firm with about 700 employees and 34 offices around the world. She leads Golin’s human resources organization and oversees talent, development, performance, diversity and inclusion, recruitment and employee engagement initiatives.

Prior to joining Golin, Culpepper worked in a variety of leadership roles at PepsiCo, Inc. for more than 13 years, most recently serving as senior vice president and global diversity and inclusion officer.

Upon graduating from UALR with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1988, she moved to California, where she began a career in human resources working for Wells Fargo.

While in California, Culpepper pursued graduate school at California State University-Hayward and received her master’s degree in public administration with an emphasis in organizational leadership.

The lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Department of Psychology’s Marie Wilson Howell’s Speaker Series. For more information, contact the Department of Psychology at 501.569.3171.