Shelley Dinehart

Shelley Dinehart joined Longwood Gardens in January 2023. In the role of chief Human Resource and Culture officer, she leads the organization’s efforts to attract, develop, engage, and retain the best talent, with a focus on elevating employees and building strong teams while helping to foster inclusion. Shelley brings more than 25 years of experience across human resources, consumer practices, and communications.

Prior to joining Longwood Gardens, Shelley founded Tallaine Associates, a Human Resources Consulting firm that provides advisory services focused on aligning organizational design and talent plans with changing business strategies to corporate and nonprofit clients.

Before launching Tallaine Associates, Shelley worked for JPMorgan Chase and its predecessors from 1993 until 2015, where she was the Chase HR executive and managing director. Partnering with the executive leadership team, she established a talent and succession plan, implemented a people management strategy, and managed HR services globally. While at JPMorgan Chase, she was a founding member of Women on the Move, a mentoring and empowerment program designed to help women advance their career, a member of the Corporate Diversity Council, and the executive sponsor for the Chase Black Executive Leaders Forum.

She is active in the community, having served on various nonprofit boards. Additionally, she is a volunteer and previously served as a program manager with Compass, an organization that provides pro-bono strategic consulting services to nonprofits. She previously served as an executive in residence at Villanova University’s School of Business.

Shelley graduated from Bucknell University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and obtained her master’s degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.