“Quite candidly, I needed to take time off. I’d done the work of being the person who rolls in to save the day. I needed to save my own day.” ... In March 2020, Michele Meyer-Shipp became the first woman and person of color to head human resources for Major League Baseball. As Chief People & Culture Officer, she led all of MLB’s programs and initiatives related to workplace diversity, equity and inclusion – supporting all 30 major league clubs and 120 minor league clubs. To say this was uncharted territory would be an understatement. “I was hired at the height of the pandemic, in the height of a very charged racial justice environment, to help lead the organization through all of that, and I did,” says Meyer-Shipp. “It was more exhausting than any job I’ve ever had because of the crisis we were going through from a social justice standpoint and then add a pandemic on top of it. It was straight up crisis management for an entire year.” Meyer-Shipp saw MLB through the 2021 World Ser...