Samantha Dwinell

About

Samantha is an accomplished global human resources leader with demonstrated success delivering business results across private and public organizations in diverse industries. Over the past two decades, she has become a trusted business partner and member of the senior leadership team, driving significant changes and delivering innovative solutions to transform organizations.  As a recognized leader, Sam received OnCon’s Top 50 CHRO Award in 2023. Sam currently serves as Human Capital Operating Partner for Blue Wolf Capital—a mid-sized private equity firm—where she specializes in building strong leadership teams, stewarding performance-driven cultures, and strengthening HR practices across the entire portfolio of Blue Wolf companies.

Previously, Sam served as interim Chief People Officer for Stream Realty Partners—a national commercial real estate firm—and Chief People Officer for Sevita—a $2B PE-owned healthcare provider. At Sevita, Sam significantly improved employee engagement and enhanced recruiting efficiency by refreshing the company's values and restructuring the talent acquisition function. She also established repeatable M&A processes that enabled the company to successfully integrate over two dozen acquisitions. Prior to Sevita, Sam spent almost 20 years with Texas Instruments—a publicly-traded global semiconductor company—culminating as the Vice President of Talent Management. She was instrumental in creating an enterprise-wide talent review process and establishing TI’s first people analytics function, which leveraged HR data and analytics to improve key business outcomes. Sam also designed a high-potential talent development program that won a Brandon Hall Award for Best Results of a Learning Program. Throughout her career, Sam has been a passionate champion for diversity and inclusion.

At Sevita, she launched the company’s first diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives, which were recognized for three consecutive years by Forbes magazine. At TI, she transformed the diversity office into a key partner inside the talent management team, leading to a more inclusive company culture and increasing the representation of women in senior leadership roles.

Sam earned a master’s degree in Management and Organization Behavior from Benedictine University and a master’s degree in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois. She is actively involved in multiple boards and industry organizations, including the Industrial Advisory Council at UT-Dallas’s Jindal School of Management, the Board and Investment Committee for the Texas Women’s Foundation, the Miami University Economics Advisory Board, and previously on the Catalyst, Inc. Board of Advisors. She received a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Sociology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Reflection

Economics teaches and helps build critically important foundational skills –  such as critical thinking, quantitative analysis, and informed decision-making – that I use every day at work and in my personal life.  As part of the honors program and a sociology major, I somewhat haphazardly found myself in Dr. Mike Curme’s economics class.  And I loved it!  While sociology helped me understand the interactions of people and groups, economics provided a much-needed balance to understanding business.  It’s probably no surprise then that I’ve built a successful career in Human Resources over the past 20 years.

I’m passionate about helping to build the next generation of leaders, particularly young girls like my daughter.  Through community involvement, such as engaging with Miami University, I hope that I can make even a small difference in the lives of others.