Steve Miranda is an Executive Partner at Gartner, Inc. Previously, Steve held a Senior Officer role at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Central Bank of the United States where he was responsible for both Human Resources as well as Technology Applications. He is also the CEO and founder of Four Forces Consulting, LLC. Previously, Steve was the Executive Director for Cornell University’s ILR School Executive Education and Center for Advanced HR Studies. Prior to joining Cornell, Steve was the CHRO as well as Strategy and Chief Ethics Officer for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Before SHRM, Steve was an HR VP at Lucent Technologies (currently Nokia). At Lucent, Steve spent 3-1/2 years in Hong Kong providing HR leadership for Lucent’s 14,000 person Asia-Pacific business. He also led the development of HR strategies for Bell Laboratories, the world famous R&D engine that has generated eight Nobel Prizes.

In addition to sitting as a Director on multiple non-profit Boards, Steve has been an advisor to four start-up organizations as well as a past United States representative to the North American HR Management Association (NAHRMA). His team’s work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, the BBC and many others. Steve has presented at multiple events worldwide, including the American Chamber of Commerce, Major League Baseball, The George Bush Center for Intelligence and the National Institute for Health. He teaches at the graduate level as an adjunct professor at Cornell University, Georgetown University, Seattle Pacific University, and the Sasin Business School of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Steve holds a Bachelors in Liberal Arts and a Masters in Computer Science as well as the SPHR, GPHR and SHRM-SCP certifications. Having travelled to or worked in over 35 countries, he is intimately familiar with the many challenges facing global leaders as they develop their teams to face the challenges of increasingly volatile markets and economies.