Kathleen Weslock is an experienced global HR executive with a career background that has involved extensive collaboration with executive leadership as a trusted advisor in achieving current and future business goals. With broad global HR and legal acumen, she provides an expanded viewpoint to manage large-scale business change and transformation. Kathleen offers a deep background in law, M&A, CEO succession, executive compensation, AI/ML and organizational restructuring.  She is the CEO and Founder of KDOG HR Consulting in addition to a varied and extensive HR corporate career.  

With more than 35 years of progressive leadership experience, Kathleen has overseen many transformations of HR departments as well as corporations, saving millions through strategic global restructuring, benefit and compensation planning and a keen sense for business modeling. She is a recognized leading expert in global HR and has earned her a reputation as a proactive, progressive, and innovative leader.  She feels honored to have worked for women who have broken through the glass ceiling and has been active in D&I/ESG for her entire career. 

Kathleen began her career in HR with GTE, now Verizon.  She then attained her law degree and started her career in professional services, first joining Mercer Human Resources Consulting as Principal of International Practice, where she guided F500 companies through global mergers and acquisitions.  Her specialty was global compensation development as well as all global aspects of HR.   From there, she moved to Lehman Brothers, then Shearman & Sterling, and finally Deloitte.   

Kathleen holds both a JD from Pace University School of Law, a master’s from Cornell University and a Bachelors from Hood College. She is active in a multitude of professional Boards and organizations, including serving as a Trustee at Hood College and was member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the ILR School at Cornell.  She was recently honored by HRO Today as the CHRO of the Year and also a winner of the Groat Award from Cornell University for her distinguished career and excellence within the world of work and human resources.