Alysa Parks is Spencer Stuart’s senior vice president of learning and development. She leads the global learning team focused on internal employee development across 56 offices in 31 countries.

Parks has deep experience in learning, talent development and organizational effectiveness. She has held positions in learning and development and marketing at ZS Associates, CDW, Indeliq: an Accenture Company, Motorola, and Sun Microsystems.

She enjoys serving on the board of directors of the Youth Job Center, an organization that prepares youth ages 14 to 25 for success in the workplace. Parks has also been a professional pinball player for more than 20 years. She earned an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business and a bachelor’s in psychology and French from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.