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Dawn Carter
Global Founder, New Dawn Strategy Group
Dawn Carter is a strategic global talent acquisition leader with over 30 years of experience driving performance through inclusive, scalable early career hiring strategies. She brings a deep understanding of global markets and a curiosity for the cultural and operational nuances that fuel talent success. She challenges the status quo by centering human connection, empathy, and the power of storytelling as tools for lasting impact.
Most recently, Dawn wrapped up her role as Uber’s Global Director of Talent Acquisition, driving the company’s early-career, university, and apprenticeship talent strategies worldwide. Appointed in 2019 as Uber’s first Global Head of University Recruiting & Programs, she built and scaled a unified global early-talent strategy—bringing consistency, innovation, and long-term workforce planning to teams and regions across the organization.
Her expertise spans industries and organizational complexity, having led high-impact university and early career programs at world-class companies including Amazon, Intuit, NetApp, Northrop Grumman, Teradyne, and Walt Disney Imagineering.
She is an active leader in her craft and has held many leadership roles in both the Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges & Employers (MPACE) and National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
Stop Counting. Start Convincing: The Early Careers Story that Drives Impact
Early-career teams have no shortage of data; but too often it informs without influencing. For many early career teams this data resides in spreadsheet vs. being connected across data stacks. Leaders don’t need more dashboards; they need insight that connects early-career investment to business outcomes.
In this session, participants will learn how to move beyond activity-based reporting and reframe early-career metrics around what leaders care about most: growth, productivity, retention, and future workforce capability. We’ll explore which metrics matter at different stages of program maturity and how to translate them into clear, outcome-focused insights for executive audiences.
The session also addresses a common challenge: disconnected data. With insights scattered across ATS, HRIS, CRM, external & internal and program tools, we’ll share practical ways to connect the talent journey. From attraction to impact into a cohesive, compelling narrative without overwhelming stakeholders.
Participants will leave with proven data storytelling techniques to drive decisions and investment, showing how to turn early-career data into strategic insight that secures buy-in, informs workforce planning, prioritizes programs, and demonstrates ROI.