Bio
Jyoti Chopra is a visionary corporate executive and board director with extensive international experience leading
business and digital transformation and change management at enterprise levels to increase shareholder value.
She has human resources, regulatory, operations, environmental and social responsibility experiences derived from
preeminent corporations with a successful track record of delivering cultural impact through innovative people
practices. An executive with over 30-years of professional experience, Jyoti is accomplished at driving business
transformation and supporting corporate turnarounds through crisis management, business restructuring,
acquisitions and divestitures. She has exceptional communications skills and expertise in building highperformance
teams, developing talent and future leadership. Her career has spanned banking, financial services
and investment management, professional services, education technology, and the gaming, entertainment and
hospitality industries. She is currently a Director on the Diversity Advisory Board for Toyota and serves on the
Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee for Schneider National (NYSE: SNDR) and is a Diversity
and Inclusion Advisor to Spencer Stuart.
Jyoti is Senior Vice President and Chief People, Inclusion and Sustainability Officer for MGM Resorts
International (NYSE: MGM) and serves as a member of the Executive Committee, based in Las Vegas. In this role
reporting to the CEO, she leads all human resource functions including labor strategy, employee relations,
executive compensation and total rewards, operations, learning and development, talent management and diversity
and inclusion. Additionally, she holds responsibilities for social impact, philanthropy and sustainability and serves
as liaison to the MGM Board of Directors’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Compensation Committees.
She manages the MGM Resorts Foundation and community relations. Her role spans a workforce of over 50,000
employees (as of January 2021) in 29 locations and a team of approximately 300 professionals. She oversees an
annual global philanthropy budget in excess of $24 million. Over the past year at MGM Resorts, Jyoti led
development of the company’s new people strategy, global diversity, inclusion, and philanthropy frameworks and
achieved marked improvement in ESG ratings through increased data reporting and disclosures in the public
domain. Significantly, she was at the forefront of agile workforce planning during the pandemic and the return to
work of over 20,000 employees within six weeks alongside newly instituted health and safety education and
training.
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