At Yupro, Nettles focuses on transforming employers’ talent acquisition strategies to provide talent with career opportunities, fair wages, economic mobility and the opportunity to create generational wealth for their families. She is passionate about challenging the norms and shifting the culture within the corporate entities Yupro works with — which she says goes far beyond sending out Juneteenth emails and announcing grand calls to action. “DE&I is life, it’s my DNA. It’s those things that happen in the hallway. It’s the little grocery store moments,” Nettles says. “It’s the action that you’re doing when no one is looking.” She encourages leaders to truly do the work and “look inward to shed light on implicit or unconscious bias [and] challenge their teams to do the same.”

When Nettles is not engrossed in her work with Yupro, she serves the Dallas community through a national community service organization and Big Brothers Big Sisters. Nettles says it’s a genuine love for what she does, not titles or accolades, that fuels her. “On my dying bed, what will I remember?” she asks. Hopefully, a lifetime of rewarding grocery store moments.