Melissa Lanier Preston is the Director of Leadership Development and Talent Management at T-Mobile. With expertise in leadership development, talent management, change leadership, organizational culture and employee experience design, her corporate career has included positions with Deloitte, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, and Insight Enterprises.

Her current role is focused on translating business strategy into people strategy through enterprise high-potential talent identification, highly innovative development experiences for high potential leaders at all levels (individual contributor through executive) and creating career development programs for all 50,000 plus members of the TMUS team.

Innovation is at the core of the work that her team is doing to transform talent management. Through a grounding in Design Thinking, her team is rethinking the employee experience to create simple, flexible talent identification approaches, new ways to support agile performance management, alternatives to traditional competency models, and digital learning experiences for leaders at every level.