Kiera Fernandez is the executive vice president and chief community and stakeholder engagement officer for Target, and president of the Target Foundation. In her role, she leads teams responsible for the company’s community and philanthropic strategy, including the Target Foundation, external stakeholder engagement and enterprise work around inclusion and belonging. Kiera has extensive leadership experience across human resources, business and retail operations, process and project management, and large-scale frontline leader and team development.
She started her career with the company in 2001, serving as an executive team leader at her store in Arizona. Throughout her more than two decades with the company, Kiera has held a variety of human resources leadership roles in support of business areas from finance to operations, to global supply chain and logistics.
She serves on the board of directors for the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) and Greater Minneapolis-Saint Paul Partnership (Greater MSP), and the Greater Twin Cities United Way previously. Kiera’s also a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC). Additionally, she is a certified yoga instructor and spends much of her free time teaching and practicing in the community.
Kiera earned her Master of Arts in Human Resource Management from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota.