Barbara Murphy-Warrington

Barbara Murphy-Warrington is president of The MiraLite Group, LLC, a consulting practice she founded in 2006 to [insert description]. Prior to moving into consulting, she held executive positions with several major U.S.-based organizations in different industries. Murphy-Warrington was the chief human resources officer for Catholic Health East (CHE), a 43,000 employee healthcare system that operated in 11 eastern states from Maine to Florida. As CHRO, she was responsible for the overall development and leadership of the human resources and organizational effectiveness function throughout CHE. She served on CHE’s senior operating team. While at CHE she led development of CHE’s first system-wide 10-year human resources strategic framework and key performance indicators She was the senior staff to the Leadership and Compensation Committee of CHE’s Board, concentrating on talent management, executive and leadership development, and diversity of CHE’s workforce.

Prior to CHE, Murphy-Warrington was Senior Vice President of CARE USA’s global Human Resource Division in Atlanta, GA. CARE USA is one of the world’s largest private international humanitarian organizations, committed to helping families in poor communities improve their lives and achieve lasting victories over poverty. At CARE USA, she established and maintained an integrated human resources management framework delivered through a decentralized, world-wide network of human resources professionals for 12,000 employees in 45 countries. She also established the CARE Academy, a virtual learning institute---the first of its kind in the nongovernmental arena--- that supported CARE’s cutting-edge global learning and staff development strategies. She was credited with developing and implementing highly successful global diversity and gender equity strategies.

Barbara spent 12 years at The Ford Foundation. She served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Human Resources at The Ford Foundation based in New York, New York. She served as liaison between Ford's headquarters and senior representatives of the overseas offices in the 17 countries where Ford worked. She was primarily responsible for leading the effort to realign the HR function with Ford's organizational goals and mission. As part of her assignment, she was a member of a senior cross-divisional team that handled all matters related to opening and closing overseas offices, having worked specifically in Chile, Peru, Brazil, Thailand, South Africa, Namibia and Vietnam. She also served as Resident Counsel in The Ford Foundation's Office of General Counsel where she concentrated on domestic and international employment matters, ERISA, contract, nonprofit tax, and employment litigation.

Prior to Ford, Murphy-Warrington served as Deputy Attorney General within the New Jersey Attorney General's Office where she provided representation on federal and state matters to a quasi private/public transportation corporation. And from 1983 to 1984, she was a judicial clerk to the Honorable Theodore Botter, who was the presiding judge for a panel of Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court.

She has her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas, a J.D. from Rutgers University, and a master’s in tax law from New York University. She is a member of the boards of Winning Workplaces, an Evanston, Ill.-based nonprofit organization focused on providing advice and best practices to employers on building effective and productive organizations; The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, a New York-based international NGO focused on advocacy for refugees in developing countries; and Global Health Ministry (supported by CHE) a volunteer-based organization which delivers healthcare services to low-income communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. She also serves on the Advisory Committees for Rutgers University’s Graduate Center for Strategic Human Resources and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Human Resources Planning Society.