Principal, Inclusion/Diversity
Edward Jones

Ms. Pitts is charged with fine-tuning and implementing the firm’s comprehensive inclusion initiative, designed to create and sustain a work environment that attracts, welcomes, supports and develops a diverse team of outstanding associates and energizes each member to achieve his or her full potential.

Pitts was instrumental in developing and rolling out the firm’s first cross-cultural development program (CCDP), which helps minority financial advisors network. She also developed the firm’s Women’s Leadership Forum, Minority Leadership Forum and Home Office Inclusion Mentoring Program.

Pitts is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, and the diversity committees for the national Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the St. Louis
University Executive Board and the Metropolitan Board of Directors for the YMCA of Greater St. Louis.

Pitts graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and earned an executive MBA from Washington University and received the peer award of Class Ambassador in 2011.