Chaune Falgout
Chaune Falgout is a dynamic and values-driven Chief of Staff at McCain Stewart, bringing over a decade of experience in human resources leadership, business partnership, and strategic operations. A native New Orleanian now rooted in Brooklyn, NY, Chaune has built a career on aligning business goals with people-centered processes, spanning industries like insurance, finance, beauty, and international operations.
Chaune’s professional journey began in an unexpected place: aboard a paddlewheel boat in New Orleans, where she stepped into her first HR role. Her path shifted dramatically after Hurricane Katrina, when she relocated to New York City with a backpack, her favorite shoes, and her photo albums in tow. Since then, she’s built a career defined by resilience, empathy, and transformation, rising through the ranks to take on leadership roles at global companies.
Over the years, Chaune has made her mark across several sectors. At QBE, she served as a Lead HR Business Partner in the insurance space, helping to drive strategic workforce planning and change management initiatives. At Avon, she supported global beauty operations as an HR Business Partner, streamlining employee onboarding and engagement practices across diverse teams. Her time at New York Life as an International HR Generalist focused on managing global mobility and compliance during corporate expansion, while at Credit Suisse, she worked within finance, gaining valuable insight into HR’s role in complex, high-stakes environments.
Known for pioneering and championing HR business partner models, Chaune has helped reshape how organizations approach talent strategy, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration. She brings a process-driven mindset to every challenge and thrives in complex, people-intensive systems. With an early background in social work, including an impactful role inside a men’s prison in New Orleans, Chaune draws on her deep understanding of human behavior to foster cultures of trust, accountability, and equity. As she often says, “If I can handle inmates, I can navigate corporate America as a Black woman from the South.”
Chaune holds a Master of Social Work from Tulane University and a Bachelor of Arts in
Sociology from Dillard University. Outside of her professional accomplishments, she takes great pride in her role as “the best Auntie ever”—a title she wears with joy. Her story is one of survival, authenticity, and purpose, and she continues to show up fully as herself in every room she enters, reminding others that true leadership is rooted in both grit and heart.