Lori Gentles

Lori Gentles is the chief people officer for the city of Santa Monica for the past three years. She is entrepreneurial and a transformative change-promoter. Lori has dedicated 20-plus years to inspiring and leading strategic organization-wide initiatives in various complex and diverse public sector agencies. Over the years, she has established a professional brand as a Cultural Architect specializing in designing, building and cultivating a culture that embraces employee empowerment and leverages individual and collective genius through creativity, diversity, equity and inclusion. She received a bachelor's degree in Interpersonal Communication from Arizona State University, and a MBA in International Business from Saint Mary's College of California.