Catherine Malloy Cummings
SparkWorks Talent
CEO | Consultant | Speaker

Catherine Malloy Cummings is a breakthrough human resources strategist known for her ability to transform HR teams into champions of revenue and agents of business growth. She is also a speaker and author, serving as a passionate advocate for HR’s potential to drive corporate strategic advantage.

Using her proprietary framework, Talent VisionSM, Catherine engages and facilitates discovery and ideation sessions, enabling leadership teams to define their true workplace culture promise. She also ensures HR teams are aligned to and accountable for supporting corporate performance and profitability.

At SparkWorks Catherine focuses on small and medium sized businesses in the throes of a corporate restructure, transformation or a period of rapid growth. Her creative energy along with her ability to uncover root causes and detect unforeseen talent issues deliver quick results.

Prior to founding SparkWorks, Catherine spent 20 years in executive-level roles in HR, corporate strategy, and internal communications for companies large and small including the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and head of HR for IMC Financial Markets, one of the leading proprietary trading firms in the world.

She earned her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an M.S. in Human Resources from Loyola University Chicago, and a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.