Jâlie Cohen joined Adecco Group in 2020 as head of HR for the Americas — now global head of talent — and in the same year launched its revamped North America DE&I program. “I started the day George Floyd was murdered,” she says, recalling the state of the US at the time. “Covid was shutting things down, there was a push for the Black Lives Matter movement, attacks on Asian Americans. Working moms were struggling with kids home from school.”