Jabulile Dayton

Jabu Dayton, the founder, and CEO of the consulting firm Jabu HR has a 25+ year career of guiding and scaling companies, with a start-up and a corporate lens. After 13 years of progressive HR leadership experience at Nordstrom Inc., Jabu moved to South Africa to launch her own company. Upon returning to the US in 2011, she moved into the founding HR role at early Airbnb, launching her 12-year career with tech companies in Silicon Valley and global markets.
Jabu thrives in complicated spaces, she enjoys the challenges and freedoms often found in tech startup environments.

Driven and creative, she builds people operations for her clients or companies, she adds immediate value by advocating for employees, coaching executives, designing strategies to mitigate risk, and helping companies articulate a compelling employer brand. She is known for building loyal relationships and positive, thriving cultures. In her years of experience, she has typically been responsible for Customer Experience, Payroll, HRIS, and Compliance. She is widely known as an advocate for underrepresented communities in tech, a voice for those without power more broadly, and is relentless about leading discussions about equity wherever her work takes her. She is a mentor to many in her community.

Through her consulting firm launched in 2014, JabuHR, Jabu has worked as an interim or full-time Chief People Officer for over 24 companies. Consulting with notable startups spanning software technology, fintech, green energy, healthcare, consumer, eCommerce, retail, agriculture, food, and beverage industries. She further contributes by sitting on the board of directors of CompTIA and Flour + Water Hospitality Group, Inc.

You can find her on Instagram @jabulile and Twitter @jabulilesaidso, she is an avid traveler, yogi, and dog wrangler.