Leila Kagawa

Chief Transformation Officer HEMIC

Leila Kagawa has worked in the enterprise program management space for the last 10 years. She is the Chief Transformation Officer at Hawaii Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company (HEMIC) where she launched the program management office and coordinates initiatives supporting workers’ compensation and life and health insurance lines for the HEMIC family of companies. Previously she worked at the State of Hawaii’s Office of Enterprise Technology Services directing large-scale modernization initiatives and implementing statewide enterprise governance. Leila also served in various capacities in human resources administration, most recently as the deputy director of the State of Hawaii’s Department of Human Resources Development, which has provided her the knowledge and experience to implement organizational change management strategies.