Christy Harris
Vice President - Talent Management, Benefits and Inclusive Diversity, Allstate Insurance Company
Christy Harris is a Human Resources vice president at Allstate Insurance Company. In this role, Christy is responsible for delivering best-in-class recruiting, sourcing, consultation and employment branding to attract top talent, while providing an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience. She is also responsible for the continued advancement of Allstate’s Inclusive Diversity efforts. Both roles are key to delivering on Allstate’s talent strategies.
Christy brings strong influential leadership, project management and client relationship skills to this leadership role, as well as strong knowledge of the business. She led the insourcing and creation of the AskHR center in 2012. She led efforts to create significant cost efficiencies in leveraging outside vendor partners. She also led work to purchase and implement new technology to improve the HR customer experience.
Christy joined Allstate in 2001 as a consultant on the HR Shared Service Account Management team. She held numerous roles on the HR Field Service Delivery team, including business partner for the Claims Eastern Territory vice president and leading the Claim Field Director business partners in the Eastern Territory. She later served as director/business partner for Emerging Businesses and Product Operations. In 2012, Christy was promoted to vice president, Human Capital Solutions, which includes the strategy and operations areas of HR. She became vice president of Total Compensation in 2014 and moved into her current assignment in 2016.
Christy earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance from St. Cloud State University, a bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management from Winona State University and her MBA from the University of St. Thomas.