Feb 2019 - Cover

Feb 2019, Issue 2

LDPs on the move Congrats on your new positions!

Aria Siddiqi HR Business Partner - Diversity and Inclusion, AT&T Inc

Aria joined AT&T as part of the Leadership Development Program (LDP), AT&T’s flagship talent recruitment and development program, in 2011 and has held a variety of roles. Most recently, Aria provided executive support to the CEO of AT&T Business as a Lead Chief of Staff. Prior to that, Aria led the Annual Enrollment initiative within the Health & Welfare Benefits organization providing benefits to 1.2 Million AT&T employees, retirees, and their dependents. Aria started her career with AT&T in National Business and U-Verse field operations where she managed both bargained and management teams and focused on developing teams and improving service quality. In National Business, Aria was responsible for developing the end-to-end implementation process for Unified Communications and pivoting her team of global project managers to the product. Aria has also spent time in AT&T Partner Exchange, where she was responsible for the Private Cloud product launch, lifecycle management and ordering portal development. Prior to AT&T, Aria obtained analytics and finance experience while working for Kraft Foods, GG+A (Grenzebach, Glier and Associates), a boutique consulting firm, and CVS/Caremark. At GG+A, Aria dedicated her time to working with non-profit organizations where she focused on analyzing client constituent databases to derive ways to increase endowment generation efforts. Likewise, following her work at GG+A, during her time at Kraft Foods, she was responsible for conducting in-depth financial and market analysis as part of her role. Aria has also worked for CVS/Caremark in their Customer Care division, where she focused on analyzing key metrics of a 500 employee call center and recommending key metrics and procedure efficiencies. Aria received her MBA and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She is from the Chicagoland area and has recently relocated to Dallas, TX.