Janet Gipson

Janet Gipson is the Head of Talent Acquisition (TA) for Yale University. She leads a team of TA professionals and is responsible for all aspects of staff hiring, including the function and placement of recruiting technologies, processes and people that deliver talent for Yale. 

Janet came to talent acquisition after a successful career in sales engineering, business development and serving as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for DISH Network. She draws on the parallels between sales/marketing and talent acquisition as the key to attracting and retaining talent in a hypercompetitive market. With math, engineering and business degrees, Janet applies her technical background to the data-driven marketing and people-management space to deliver consistently for organizations. 

A compassionate professional who always looks for ways to give back, she holds or has held memberships in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated; Jack and Jill of America, Inc.; Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM); and the Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals (ATAP), to name a few. She serves on the board of New Haven Reads, a nonprofit focused on literacy skills in children. A former board member of the Pilates Method Alliance, she’s currently working on her teaching and practice requirements to complete the comprehensive Pilates certification. Janet has been married for 26 years to Marcus, and they have three children, a son-in-law and a grandson.