Le Joyce Naylor

Le Joyce Naylor

Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer

Cleveland Clinic

Le Joyce Naylor serves as Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer for Cleveland Clinic. In her enterprise role, Ms. Naylor champions the goal of fostering an inclusive work environment to better serve patients, caregivers, and underserved communities. She partners with key internal and external stakeholders to advance Cleveland Clinic’s cultural competency initiatives. Le Joyce also works to ensure that diversity strategies and metrics are in integrated throughout the enterprise to support Cleveland Clinic’s mission, vision, and values. These efforts have resulted in Cleveland Clinic being recognized as a Top 5 Hospital System by DiversityInc for six consecutive years.

In her pervious role, Ms. Naylor was Division Administrator for Human Resources. She worked with the Chief Human Resources Officer on strategic planning and process improvement, along with fiscal planning for the division.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Le Joyce held various leadership positions in Human Resources/Diversity, Corporate Administration, Public Relations and consulting services in areas of cultural transformation; mission and vision development; performance planning, leadership development, and diversity management.

Ms. Naylor holds a Masters in Human Resources from Cleveland State University, a Diversity Management Certificate from Cornell University, and is a Cornell Certified Diversity Professional/Advanced Practitioner. She serves on the National Center for Healthcare Leadership’s Diversity & Inclusion Council, Cleveland Medical Association Advisory Board, Celebrate Sisterhood Executive Committee, Member Engagement Committee for Commission on Economic Inclusion and the Board of Directors for the American Sickle Cell Anemia Association.