Janis Hoyt

My Champion in the Room When I Wasn't There

Janis Hoyt is CHRO at Primal Pet Group, by way of Macy's, Aetna, Clorox, Blue Shield of California and The Honest Company, which she helped take public in 2021. She studied sociology at Berkeley because it is the study of how people tick, and found HR through a rotational assignment she never left. She walks through the path to the Chief Officer seat and the thread running under all of it: the boss who offered her Latin America when she did not speak Spanish, and what separates a mentor who cheers for you from one who champions you when you are not in the room.