Kaye Foster is now a Senior Advisor and Executive Coach at Boston Consulting Group, a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford Health Care, and a member of the Board of Directors of Valley Care, Agios Pharmaceuticals, and Grail, a biotechnology company focused on the early detection of cancer. She is the former Chief HR Officer for Johnson & Johnson and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, and a former Senior Director of Human Resources at Pfizer.
Kaye is also extremely focused on philanthropy. She is a Trustee of the Board of Spelman College in Atlanta and Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Glide Foundation, a San Francisco-based center for social justice whose mission is to combat poverty, homelessness, and systemic social and racial injustices. Kaye leads the Glide Foundation the same way she chooses to live her life, with a “deep belief in the core dignity and humanity of all people.”
Kaye defines her life’s purpose as “giving voice to the voiceless.” She does not view this mission as an act of charity, but rather as an investment in a shared societal future. This determination to live a life of purposeful engagement in service to others has served as her North Star throughout her entire career.
Life is a journey, Kaye says, and while the tough moments are part of this path, they do not have to determine the final outcome. Kaye embraces her journey, and the challenges that have shaped her, determined to never lose sight of her goals even when they seemed distant and unattainable.
Kaye has discovered the power that comes with taking agency over how one defines “I’’ and having an indomitable will. Now it is her mission to inspire that mentality in others, and to encourage a sense of possibility and potential that is unlimited.