Lorraine “Lo” Stomski is the Senior Vice President of Associate Learning & Leadership for Walmart. Lorraine has over 25 years of experience in talent strategy. She joined Walmart 5 years ago and is responsible for learning, leadership, performance management, succession, selection and onboarding for the Enterprise.
Prior to joining Walmart, she was the Global Practice Leader for Assessment and Leadership at Aon Hewitt. In that role, she has worked with several large employers in the Fortune 500. Lorraine’s experience includes the development of global high potential programs, talent strategy, executive assessment and succession planning. Her specialties include leadership development, retention and development of top talent, top team effectiveness, executive coaching, and increasing women’s presence at the top.
Lorraine received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Stevens Institute of Technology. She is a member of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology and (SIOP) and the American Psychological Association (APA). Lorraine is a frequent speaker on the topic of best-in-class practices within the field of leadership globally. She is one of the authors in the books Strategy Driven Talent Management: A Leadership Imperative (2010), Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching (2011), Advancing Human Resource Project Management (2014), The Handbook of Strategic 360 Feedback (2019) and the newly released book on Learning Agility (2021). She has also been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, The New York Times, HR Executive, BBC and Women 2.0.
Lorraine’s team is also the proud recipient last year of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) HR IMPACT award for their work in selection along with the 2022 M Scott Myers award for store manager selection. Originally from New York, Lorraine lives in Rogers, Arkansas with her husband Curtis, shelter dogs Stickley and Ellis, and a cat that showed up at their back door, Rudy.