As Vice President of People & Strategy for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Nayli Russo-Long actively leads the People & Culture and Business Strategy departments, serving as a strategic advisor to the president and the executive team. In this role, she is focused on improving the organization’s overall performance by identifying key strategic priorities, developing, and executing business and talent strategies, and fostering high-performing teams in a collaborative, inclusive, and people-centered culture.
Before joining the Pirates, Nayli worked for 14 years in the healthcare industry, starting as a pharmacist before moving her way up to management. Her most recent role was with Highmark, Inc. as the Chief of Staff to the President and Chief Growth Officer. A native of Venezuela, Nayli Russo-Long moved to the United States in 2007. As the only female on her youth baseball team, she now combines her passion for the sport and managing diverse teams to deliver desired outcomes.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
