Colonel Kris Saling is a recognized leader in the US Army Human Capital Enterprise who has been introducing analytics, automation, and transformational business processes into Army human resources for the past eight years.

She and her hand-picked teams of technologists and human resource subject matter experts have coordinated with the best across government, industry, and academia to pilot innovation programs at scale, including three talent management programs of record and an Army-wide data literacy program that has trained hundreds of Soldiers over the last year.

She is an Army operations research and systems analyst with experience not just in Army human resources and people analytics, but in government acquisition and contracting, data governance, personnel policy, law, and statute, and the business process of innovation. She has led significant analytic and modernization efforts at US Indo-Pacific Command, Headquarters Department of the Army, Army Human Resources Command, and now, her most challenging effort, US Army Recruiting Command, where she serves as their Innovation Director.

Colonel Saling is also publishing her first book, Data-Driven Talent Management, compiling practical and actionable insights from her years transforming Army personnel business processes. It is available this August.