Atlanta & Southeast + Atlanta + CRE Insider | May 1, 2023

Skanska has named Ayesha Adams as the first-ever National Director of Culture & Engagement

Ayesha Adams Named National Director of Culture & Engagement at Skanska USA Building

Global construction and development firm Skanska has named Ayesha Adams as the first-ever National Director of Culture & Engagement, Skanska USA Building. This new role is a key addition to the business’ national Diversity and Inclusion team.

Transitioning from her current role as Regional Human Resources Business Partner at Skanska, Adams will be primarily responsible for expanding the company’s internal D&I infrastructure and engagement efforts. She will continue to operate from the firm’s Atlanta office.

Adams brings nearly two decades of human resources experience to her new role, including most recently as Skanska’s Regional Human Resources Business Partner. Prior to Skanska, Adams served as HR Director at Aaron’s Inc, HR Manager at The Home Depot, and HR Manager at Ricoh Americas Corporation.

Adams holds a Master of Science (MS), Human Resources from Troy University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing from Georgia State University.

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Angela Noote is a native of Northern California and graduated from Chico State with a degree in public relations. After college she moved to the Central Coast and worked first in ad sales then in editorial, eventually spending more than a decade as a print reporter and editor. She detoured into design work at a printer/publisher, and with a partner eventually opened a boutique full-service marketing agency. Moving into corporate communications, she built and managed several successful marketing teams in the hospitality, financial services, and nonprofit industries. Most recently she was an internal comms manager in the tech sector. After a long stint spent in Georgia (Go Dawgs), she moved to Baton Rouge, LA and has written for clients in the financial, luxury imports, higher ed, commercial cleaning, and medical equipment industries. Her son is a media arts major at the University of South Carolina, and her husband owns a comedy theater in Baton Rouge, where you can often find Angi teaching improv classes, leading corporate training events, or doing an occasional stand up set.

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