Kathryn Adams is the Group Senior Vice President of People & Culture for CNN Worldwide, where she leads the global people strategy focused on empowering talent, strengthening culture, and enabling the organization to thrive in a rapidly evolving media landscape.

With more than 20 years of human capital leadership, Kathryn is recognized for aligning people, performance, and purpose to drive sustainable business impacts. At CNN, she is deeply committed to building a high‑performance culture that enables journalists and news employees around the world to do their best work in service of CNN’s global mission.

Since joining WBD in 2019, Kathryn has been at the helm of large-scale organizational and workforce transformations across thousands of employees spanning Finance, Technology, Real Estate, Security, and Global Shared Services. She has served as the principal architect of enterprise people strategies focused on operating model evolution, workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, and employee engagement.

Prior to WBD, Kathryn held senior HR leadership roles at Sprint, where she supported Technology, Operations, Sales, Marketing and Customer Retention organizations. Her expertise includes workforce strategy, change management, competency framework design, organizational effectiveness, M&A and measuring the business impact of people investments.

Kathryn is a Senior Certified Professional (SHRM‑SCP), Certified Executive Coach, and a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT). She serves on the WBD Benefit Plans Investment Committee and is the Executive Sponsor of WBD’s PRIDE Business Resource Group. Outside of CNN, she serves on the board of a nonprofit summer camp in New Hampshire focused on helping girls develop the physical and spiritual strengths necessary to meet the challenges of today’s world with honesty, sensitivity, and courage.

She holds a Master of Science in Human Resources Development from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, with a minor in Spanish, from the University of Georgia.