Awo Quaison-Sackey - Newmont Mining - What Glitters is People

In this episode, Awo discusses how the lessons of working in Africa can teach America about employee experience, the importance of asking questions and listening, the special circumstances of hybrid work in the mining industry, how after years in the gold business she’s never actually seen gold and how that’s a metaphor for hybrid work, and much more.


Awo Quaison-Sackey is Regional Vice President, Human Resources, Africa Region, at Newmont Mining. She has forty years of experience in the manufacturing, insurance and mining industries. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) from the University of Ghana, and Master of Laws, LLM and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Temple University, Pennsylvania. Awo has participated extensively as a volunteer with such organizations as the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) where she served as chairperson of the Global Advisory Committee, working to build strategic partnerships between African information technology entrepreneurs and women’s organizations and business associations in different parts of Africa. She also worked with a team to found the Digital Diaspora Network for Africa whose purpose was to leverage the resources of the diaspora to enable economic development in Africa. She has served on the Board of the World Affairs Council of Connecticut – a ninety-five-year old organization established to promote awareness and greater understanding of the world through experiences and dialog.  She is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ghana. In her current role, Awo participates as a member of the regional African leadership team bringing her human resources expertise to create, develop, and support people practices. She collaborates with other functions to ensure that the employee experience and company values are at the heart of actions and decisions that are implemented.  In this role, Awo is able to bring her passion for leadership, employee wellness, community support to implement top-notch programs and policies for over five thousand employees and contractors in the Newmont Africa region.