Rashida Constantine is a Chief Human Resources Officer and executive human capital advisor with deep expertise in enterprise people strategy, organizational effectiveness, leadership governance, and culture transformation. She advises presidents, boards, cabinets, founders, and senior executives on aligning human capital strategy with institutional mission, financial stewardship, risk management, and long-term organizational sustainability.

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Rashida currently serves as Chief Human Resources Officer at Suffolk University, where she leads enterprise-wide human capital strategy and operations for a complex academic institution. In this capacity, she is a trusted advisor to executive and board leadership, providing strategic guidance on executive compensation, workforce planning, total rewards, employee relations, organizational design, leadership accountability, and regulatory compliance. Her work ensures that people systems are not only compliant and scalable, but intentionally aligned with institutional priorities, governance expectations, and long-term value creation.

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Known for her ability to bring clarity to complexity, Rashida has led large-scale organizational and workforce transformations across multiple sectors. Her executive experience includes redesigning performance management and succession planning frameworks, strengthening leadership pipelines, and modernizing people operations through enterprise HR technology implementations, including ERP and Workday deployments. She is particularly effective at bridging governance, strategy, and execution, enabling organizations to modernize while maintaining trust, equity, and operational continuity.

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Rashida’s career spans higher education, public sector, and global enterprise environments, including senior HR leadership roles with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as experience within highly scaled, fast-paced organizations such as Amazon and Walgreens. Across these settings, she has partnered with governing bodies and C-suite leaders to navigate change, manage enterprise risk, and strengthen organizational resilience in highly regulated, unionized, and mission-driven environments.

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Her leadership philosophy is grounded in the belief that human capital is a core enterprise asset and that effective governance, ethical leadership, and healthy culture are essential to organizational performance and reputation. Rashida is known for an executive presence that balances decisiveness with approachability, equipping leaders to address complex people matters with confidence, transparency, and alignment.

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At Koningin Consulting, Rashida serves as Lead Consultant for People, Culture & Organizational Effectiveness, advising boards, presidents, founders, and senior leadership teams on human capital strategy, organizational design, leadership effectiveness, and workforce transformation. Her advisory work helps organizations build people systems that are strategic, compliant, inclusive, and purpose-driven, fully aligned with financial, operational, and executive leadership strategy.