Rosa M. Colon-Kolacko
President and Founder, Global Equity Learning Partners, LLC & Tufts University Adjunct Professor
Rosa M. Colon-Kolacko, PhD, MBA, CDM, SHR-SCP, President and Founder, Global Equity Learning Dr. Colon-Kolacko is the President and Founder of Global Equity and Learning Partners, LLC. (GEL), a consulting company to build equitable organizations. She has over 25 years of experience in Global Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences, Health Systems, Academia, Government, Corporate, Energy Sector and Nonprofits. She is the former Tufts Medicine, Senior VP, Chief Diversity and Equity and Inclusion Officer responsible for implementing racial and health equity, inclusion, and community health strategies, former NYC. Earlier in her career, she worked at Bristol Myers-Squibb and SmithKline Beecham leading cultural transformation, IT Implementations, talent management, and lean/Six Sigma functions in Asia, Europe, North/Latin America, and Puerto Rico. NYC Health + Hospitals SVP and Chief People & Experience Officer, as an officer of the city of New York, responsible for 60K employees, 30 unions. Rosa was a member of the New York City Health and Hospitals Equity Coalition, Philadelphia Collaborative for Health Equity, AHA Institute for Diversity in Health Management now IFDHE Executive Leadership Council, and the National Association of Latino Healthcare Executive. Rosa was Christiana Care Health System first SVP Chief Diversity and Learning Officer creating the first DE Cancer Coalition reducing cancer rates and developed the DE Health Equity Tool kit and health outcomes dashboard collaborating with the DHSS Secretary. Rosa is incredibly involved in national and state-level boards to advance equity including the Board of the MA Health Equity Compact, Inc., an organization of 80+ C-Suite leaders of color advancing the agenda through legislation working with MA Commissioner of Public Health and the Governor.
She is a researcher and has held Academic positions as Professor of Professional Practice at Bowling Green State University, adjunct faculty at Georgetown University, University of Delaware, and Thomas Jefferson University. She is also an Equity Fellow of the Delaware Community Foundation. Most recent appointment at Tufts School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine.
She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Development and Change from Benedictine University, an MBA from Henley Business School, University of Reading England, a post-graduate Marketing Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, London, Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) from the Society of Human Resources Management and a
Certificate in Diversity Management (CDM) from Georgetown University and the AHA Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.
