Known as The Leadership Lyricist™, Sharell Thomas-Hodge is a nationally recognized HR executive, speaker, and facilitator who believes the hardest workplace conversations can still be handled with clarity, courage, and humanity.

She serves as Vice President of HR Operations at YMCA of the USA, where she leads compensation, benefits, talent acquisition, employee relations, HR systems, and other critical people operations. With more than 20 years of HR leadership experience, Sharell is known for turning complex people challenges into practical strategies leaders can actually use.

As Founder and CEO of The Sharell Group, she helps organizations reduce the leadership cost of avoidance, strengthen workplace culture, and equip leaders to say the hard thing without losing the human being in front of them. She is also the creator of the Rupture & Repair framework.

Sharell has presented for SHRM National, WorldatWork, Human Capital Institute, HRCI, PayScale, and conferences and organizations across the country. Her sessions blend executive insight, honest conversation, humor, and storytelling that keeps audiences engaged while challenging them to lead differently.

A proud native of Nassau, Bahamas, Sharell now lives in Atlanta with her family. She loves faith, laughter, music, travel, and a good conversation that goes deeper than small talk. She brings that same warmth, energy, and authenticity into every room she enters.