Lizanne (Liz) C. Gottung is Senior Vice President of Human Resources.

Liz leads the design and implementation of all enterprise human capital strategies for Kimberly-Clark, including global compensation and benefits, talent management, diversity and inclusion, organizational effectiveness and corporate health services.  In her role, she and the Human Resources staff work with the company’s business and functional leaders to develop and implement the strategies, processes and systems to further strengthen Kimberly-Clark’s performance-driven culture and ensure the company remains an organization in which great people can do their best work.

In her role as Chief HR Officer, Liz has focused on transforming human resources as a competitive business tool and as a function at Kimberly-Clark.  Most notably, she is leading the function to become more strategic and enable employee capability and productivity to increase revenue and profits.  To achieve this strategy, the function redesigned its business model and is making significant improvements to many processes including outsourcing transactional work.

Her career history with Kimberly-Clark includes joining in 1981 in a labor relations role at a manufacturing facility in Tennessee.  Following positions of increasing scope and responsibility within Human Resources, she moved into line operations management in 1991.  She held operational positions in several consumer products manufacturing facilities; then she moved into plant manager roles in the consumer products facility located in New Milford, Conn., and the nonwovens facility in Corinth, Miss.  In 2001, Liz was named Vice President of Human Resources and became Senior Vice President in 2002, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer.

Liz earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Albany.  She serves on the board of the North Fulton Child Development Association, the Compensation and Benefits Committee of the American Heart Association and was elected to the Board of Directors of Louisiana Pacific Corporation in 2007.  She resides near Atlanta, Ga., with her husband Mark and their three daughters.