Beatrice Opoku-Asare

Senior Director, Global Talent Management, Inclusion and Diversity at Newmont Corp.

Beatrice Opoku-Asare is currently Senior Director, Global Talent Management, Inclusion and Diversity at Newmont Corp.; the world’s largest gold mining company. She is originally from Ghana and has worked in Newmont’s global headquarters in Denver, Colorado for the past 6 years and a total of 11 years at other operations. She is a charismatic change maker and her role involves partnering with the Board of Directors, executives and each operating region globally to build an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. Her role was most recently expanded to include a focus on Newmont’s Talent Management efforts globally which includes Talent and Leadership Development, Succession Planning, Performance management, University Strategy and Newmont’s Graduate Development Program, etc.

Beatrice has been recognized as one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce, is one of the Elite100 black women in Corporate America by Diversity Woman Magazine and on the 2018 Most Inspirational Women in Mining by Women in Mining UK. She is  a board member of the Colorado Diversity Council and non-exec Board member of the International Women in Mining. Beatrice is an environmental scientist, a  Senior Professional in HR (SPHR) certified by the Human Resources Institute and a graduate of Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Program and lives in Colorado with her husband and two kids.