John Reid-Dodick

As Chief People Officer, John Reid-Dodick and AOL’s HR team help deliver the company’s commitment to hiring and empowering smart people who love what they do, have fun doing it, and are passionate about AOL’s mission to inform, entertain, and connect the world.

Reid-Dodick joined AOL in 2011 from Thomson Reuters, where he headed HR for Thomson Reuters Markets, the $7 billion, 28,000-person division that included the Reuters news organization and the firm’s media, technology and financial services businesses. Following the Thomson acquisition of Reuters in 2008, Reid-Dodick led the people and culture integration of Reuters and Thomson Financial. Previously, he held a range of senior HR roles at Reuters in New York and London.

An expert in leadership, talent, and organizational culture and change, Reid-Dodick has led a number initiatives that have received industry awards of excellence and been featured as best practice in publications such as Stephen Bungay, The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps Between Plans, Actions and Results (2011); Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn, Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization’s Growth Engine (2006); and Simon Barrow and Richard Moseley, The Employer Brand (2005).

A lawyer by training, Reid-Dodick joined Reuters in 1995, serving as General Counsel for Reuters America from 1997 to 2000. Prior to Reuters, he was an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell and a law clerk for the Honorable Robert W. Sweet of the Southern District of New York.

With a passion for innovation in education, Reid-Dodick in 2012 will become Chair of the Board of Trustees for The Purnell School, whose strengths-based Affinities Program was featured by the Discovery Channel on The Profile Series as a model for 21 Century learning, and he is a member of the Board of Governors of TEAM Charter Schools, a network of KIPP schools in Newark, New Jersey.

Reid-Dodick graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and he holds a master’s degree in politics from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in political studies from the University of Manitoba.