Victoria Bowens
Director, Diversity and Inclusion Management
at Department of the Navy
Colonel (Air Force retired) Victoria Bowens is the Director, Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Navy, over 30 years of experience in the Human Resources domain. Her background spans across a myriad of human resources and manpower management programs in the areas of human capital management planning; training and development; strategic planning; program and project management.
She is responsible for providing authoritative advice and counsel to the Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Civilian Human Resources on strategies to address the Navy and Marine Corps military and civilian diversity and inclusion challenges for a workforce of over 900,000.
She previously served as the Senior Military Advisor to the Director of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel and Readiness, Washington, District of Columbia. There she was responsible for providing military advice and guidance on programs and policies affecting equal opportunity and diversity management for 1.4 million active duty military, 1.3 million Guard and Reserve, and 782,000 Department of Defense civilian personnel.
Ms. Bowens is a Certified Diversity Professional with over 100 hours of instruction and certified as a Game Changer under the guise of the Office of Personnel Management’s New Inclusion Quotient (NEW IQ).
Her awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal with five oak leaf clusters and the Air Force Commendation Medal. She’s been featured in the Fall 2017 Professional Woman’s Magazine as a “Real Life Wonder Woman; selected as the 2013 National Association of Professional Women, “Professional Woman of the Year;” recognized as “Worldwide Who’s Who” in the Registry of Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs for 2012-2013; and honored as one of the Most Influential in the 2nd Edition of “Who's Who” Black in Washington, D.C, in 2010.
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