Thomas "Tommy" Wenzlau is the Talent Leader for IBM’s New Collar Initiatives.
In this role, he is helping IBM and the IT Industry reorient the labor market - and talent models - to be skills-first. His team is focused on creating more open and equitable pathways to employment for all regardless of background. His team manages IBM’s Apprenticeship & Pre-Apprenticeship Program, Returnship (Tech Re-Entry) Program, Neurodiversity at IBM, and P-TECH programs. In support of this mission, Tommy represents IBM externally on a number of boards: he is the chair of the Consumer Technology Association’s Apprenticeship Coalition, the chair of the Business Roundtable’s Multiple Pathways Initiative’s Metrics committee, and the co-chair of OneTen’s Skills-First Working Group.
Tommy has spent the last decade with IBM. Prior to this role, he spent 5 years building out the Artificial Intelligence business unit within IBM - known as IBM Watson - as the HR and Talent Leader.
Tommy grew up in Southern California, and recently relocated back to Los Angeles with his wife after living in the Northeast for the past 13 years. His family makes wine in Santa Barbara County and he is a certified sommelier and all around wine snob. Tommy also is an LA sports fan and a long suffering supporter of Arsenal Football Club.