Angela Thompkins is Chief Diversity Officer and Vice President of Community Affairs of Consumers Energy.
In this role, Thompkins leads and advances the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and strategic talent sourcing strategies. She partners with Consumers Energy’s leaders to embed diversity, equity and inclusion within Consumers Energy’s corporate culture. Thompkins also establishes and builds business and community relationships to help boost diversity within the company’s talent pipeline. She also advises the company’s employee resource groups.
Thompkins also leads Consumers Energy’s corporate giving and community affairs functions, extending the company’s DE&I reach to cultivate a broader, more immersive external impact.
Thompkins’ previous Consumers Energy roles include executive director of strategic talent sourcing and senior human resources consultant. She provided statewide human resources consulting services to the company’s natural gas distribution, storage and compression teams.
Thompkins joined Consumers Energy in 2013 after holding previous leadership positions in the food distribution, non-profit legal services and automotive industries. She began her career as a prosecutor for the City of Detroit, Mich.
Thompkins serves on the boards of directors of the Michigan Chapter of American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE), the Michigan Diversity Council and the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion. She also serves on the Advisory Council for the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Under Thompkins’ leadership, the company’s DE&I initiatives have been recognized by Forbes, DiversityInc, Military Times, Best for Vets, Corporate Equality Index, Corp! Magazine, National Organization on Disability, and Montel Williams’ Military Makeover. Thompkins was most recently recognized as a 2022 Tough Enough to be a Girl Scout honoree, a 2021 Top Diversity Officer by the Energy Inclusion Conference, a 2021 Corp! Magazine Salute to Diversity Business Leaders award recipient and a 2020 Michigan Chronicle Women of Excellence honoree.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Eastern Michigan University, a juris doctorate from Thomas M. Cooley Law School and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in labor and employment law from Wayne State University Law School.
