Ida Byrd-Hill
Ida Byrd-Hill is CEO of Automation Workz, a cybersecurity reskilling and diversity consulting firm. Ida has five years in Human Resources where she created the Diversity Culture Audit; fourteen years in finances creating the Financial Fitness Course, Fluke –¬ the wealth building game of accidental inventions and My Dream Empire app to train 1000 UAW workers; and fourteen years piloting public – private partnerships including the creation of a cyber alternative high school. Ida is a graduate of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a BA Economics and Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University with an MBA specializing in People Management/ Strategy. Ida is the author of Invisible Talent Market, a Black Labor Economics History book. Ida has appeared in Associated Press, Crain’s Business Detroit, CW Street Beat, Cybercrime Magazine, Daytime NBC, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Good Morning America, Let It Rip, Michigan Chronicle, Model D, PBS, X-conomy. autoworkz.org and press: https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2011/12/fluke_detroit_mom_develops_sta.html
