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Fostering a Culture of Innovation and Collaboration
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Fostering a Culture of Innovation and Collaboration

April 22, 2024

Natalia Méndez DeBriones, leads the medical devices manufacturing cluster for Philips. In her current role she is responsible for leading 13 manufacturing plants, located across the world.  She has been in Medical Devices manufacturing for the past 16 years and has experience in different roles:  Quality, Product Design, Plastic Molding & Extrusion, and is passionate about Lean, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement. During her career, she has been able to transform and optimize manufacturing processes to better support customer needs and increase value brought to the company.  She enjoys working with interdisciplinary teams and finding new ways to achieve goals, while creating development opportunities for her team and others.

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People-Centric Manufacturing Transformation
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People-Centric Manufacturing Transformation

April 22, 2024

Becky Crane has 20 years’ experience at General Mills working across the company’s end-to-end supply chain, in multiple U.S. and international locations. Highlights include plant manager at one of our largest facilities (Hannibal, Mo.), as well as standing up a global procurement organization in Switzerland as an expat. She’s known for leveraging her breadth of experience to build bold strategies and highly effective cross-functional teams to solve problems and create long-term advantage for our businesses. Crane leads manufacturing, engineering and global safety teams with accountability for over 9,000 employees (approximately 30% of the company’s employee base). This includes responsibility over $1B in capital across the enterprise, standardizing processes and establishing strong business partnerships to enable advantaged agility and accelerate innovation.

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Charting a New Automotive Course with Both Familiar Practices and Fresh Ideas
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Charting a New Automotive Course with Both Familiar Practices and Fresh Ideas

February 12, 2024

Chris Condon is the Chief Financial Officer for Scout Motors Inc.  Scout is a new brand backed by the Volkswagen Group, reviving a beloved rugged American brand for an all-electric future.  Its lineup of rugged SUVs and pick-up trucks will begin in 2026.

Serving Scout since company founding in 2022, Chris serves on the Board of Directors and is responsible for business and financial planning, accounting, investor relations, tax, treasury, and other ancillary departments.  As Scout is built from the ground up, he is responsible for the design, implementation, and professional execution for all the above.

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From Convenience to Catastrophe: What Monocultures and Group Think Teach us About Diversity
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From Convenience to Catastrophe: What Monocultures and Group Think Teach us About Diversity

December 11, 2023

Sara Bowen is vice president of Global Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and Employee Listening & Organizational Research at The Boeing Company.

Sara is responsible for developing and executing the company’s global strategy on equity, diversity and inclusion, ensuring Boeing fulfills its promise of equal opportunity, and strengthening a culture of belonging. She also leads the Employee Listening and Organizational Research team, which harnesses the power of employee voice to drive business excellence.

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Work: What You Do, Not Where You Do It
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Work: What You Do, Not Where You Do It

December 14, 2023

With over 20 years managing human resources from revenue-generating commercial businesses to vast global servicing organizations, Kim has a demonstrated ability to architect transformation, forge connections, deliver insights and link talent to strategy. Kim is a trusted advisor and thought partner and has successfully built world-class business teams across different industries, functions, geographies and environments. She is a leader with people operations expertise and ensures that the employee side of the business equation enables execution of strategic objectives.

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The Secret Sauce to a Seamless People Experience: Lessons from the Golden Arches
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The Secret Sauce to a Seamless People Experience: Lessons from the Golden Arches

December 11, 2023

Shammara serves as Vice President and Global Chief Talent Officer at McDonald’s Corporation. In this role, she is responsible for talent attraction, performance management, leadership development and organizational effectiveness. She’s been a part of the McFamily since 2017 and most recently served as Senior Director, Corporate Human Resources.

Shammara is an accomplished human resources professional who draws on her experience and passion for talent and diversity to create high-impact people strategies. In her role as Senior Director, Corporate HR, Shammara led McDonald’s corporate people initiatives for the global functions, providing leaders with support and advice for cultivating high-performing, agile teams.

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Navigating the Culture Journey: From Winding Roads to Construction Detours and Way Points
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Navigating the Culture Journey: From Winding Roads to Construction Detours and Way Points

December 18, 2023

As Chief People & Organization (P&O) Officer of Novartis, Rob Kowalski leads the company’s strategy to unleash the power of its people and ensure it has the diverse talent, skills and organizational capabilities to deliver on its long-term priorities and purpose as a focused medicines company.

Rob is passionate about fostering an Inspired, Curious and Unbossed culture that drives innovation and performance, and ultimately impacts how Novartis reimagines medicine for patients. Since taking his current position in 2021, he has played an instrumental role in implementing a new structure and operating model designed to support the company’s next phase of innovation and growth.

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Nurturing Talent and Culture Through Immense Growth
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Nurturing Talent and Culture Through Immense Growth

December 18, 2023

Jennifer Weber is chief human resources officer and chief diversity officer for ADM and a member of the company’s Executive Council. In this capacity, she oversees all human resources functions for ADM’s global workforce of more than 38,000, including the company’s global activities to support diversity and inclusion.

Weber has an extensive record of strong human resources leadership and strategic management, leading companies during times of significant transformations, mergers and acquisitions, and growth initiatives. Prior to joining ADM in 2020, she served as executive vice president of human resources at Lowe’s Companies, where she drove strategic efforts spanning talent acquisition, development, culture and broad-based business transformation. She also led human resources for companies including Scripps Networks and Duke Energy, and began her career in HR at Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson), where she became managing principal of the firm’s Cincinnati office.

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Evolving the LEGO® Leadership Playground
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Evolving the LEGO® Leadership Playground

December 18, 2023

Pat has been with the LEGO Group since 2012 and is currently the Head of Partnering & Operations for the Americas. In this capacity he serves as the People Operations lead for the LEGO Group’s Americas Hub in Enfield, CT, and as the Strategic People Partner for the Americas Market Group. Prior to his current role, Pat served as the People Partner for Latin America and LEGO Brand Retail, North America.

Prior to joining the LEGO Group, Pat worked at The Hartford Financial Services Group for 10 years. He worked in a variety of functions including Group Benefits, Corporate Relations and Human Resources, where his highlight was managing The Hartford’s scholarships and internships for students from the city of Hartford.

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Preserving and Evolving New Balance’s Culture
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Preserving and Evolving New Balance’s Culture

December 18, 2023

Joan McGrail is a proven Human Resources executive with extensive experience in all facets of the department. She assumed her current role, Chief Human Resource Officer for New Balance Athletics, Inc., in May of 2020 and currently oversees all global HR operations for the company’s more than 9,000 worldwide employees.

Joan is responsible for leading her team’s strategic HR planning and execution, with particular focus on diversity and inclusion; organizational effectiveness; talent development; culture enrichment, and HR operation data and analytics. She promotes agility and innovation, striving to unlock new ways of working that will transform the organization. Additionally, she is a member of New Balance’s senior leadership team, which is responsible for the creation and implementation of a corporate strategy for more than $5 billion business.

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Which HR Leader Are You? Exploring HR Personas and Their Approach to Evolving Workforce and Benefit Priorities in 2024
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Which HR Leader Are You? Exploring HR Personas and Their Approach to Evolving Workforce and Benefit Priorities in 2024

December 18, 2023

Wes was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of Care.com in April 2023.  As CHRO, he oversees the Company’s global human resources function, including people operations (talent acquisition, compensation, performance management and benefits), workforce strategy, and culture and engagement, among other areas.

An accomplished and seasoned executive, Wes brings 20 years of experience to Care having most recently served as Head of Human Resources for GameStop since October 2020.  Earlier in 2020, he was CHRO for Accent Food Services after having spent six years as Vice President of People & Culture at Alchemy Systems. Before that Wes held various leadership roles at Target and Floor & Décor.

Wes received his B.B.A. from Sam Houston State University in Texas and serves on the Board of Directors for Goodwill Central Texas. He is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

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Jessica Jones of Alliance Technical Group — Culture Transfer Strategies During Mergers and Acquisitions
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Jessica Jones of Alliance Technical Group — Culture Transfer Strategies During Mergers and Acquisitions

April 10, 2024

At the most recent edition of the North American HR Executive Summit we sat down with Jessica Jones, the VP of Human Resources & Legal Compliance at Alliance Technical Group. Jessica hosted a themed lunch discussion on culture transfer strategies during mergers and acquisitions, and in this interview she shared some of the key takeaways from that conversation. M&A activity is one of those topics where HR professionals have a lot of important work to do in a tight time frame, but are often reluctant to talk about specifics. One of the great advantages of the themed lunch discussion format is that it’s an hour around the table with people who opted into this specific topic because it’s relevant to their own experiences and expertise. What an opportunity for like-minded people to share best practices and lessons learned on an important but specific and sometimes sensitive topic. Give this episode a listen!

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Marvin Cooke of Toyota Europe — An In-Depth Conversation on Toyota’s Transformation, Carbon Neutrality, Workforce Trends, and Leadership
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Marvin Cooke of Toyota Europe — An In-Depth Conversation on Toyota’s Transformation, Carbon Neutrality, Workforce Trends, and Leadership

June 12, 2023

Marvin Cooke is the EVP – Manufacturing for Toyota Motor Europe.

Based in Brussels, Marvin oversees all of Toyota’s European Manufacturing Companies, Production Engineering, Logistics, the Toyota Production System and the Production Control functions.

Marvin joined Toyota Manufacturing in the UK as a Manufacturing Engineer in 1991 and has held numerous management posts of increasing seniority throughout Europe. Today Mavin is leading Toyota’s European Manufacturing team along the journey from being an Automobile Company to becoming a Mobility Company.

He will also be a member of the speaker faculty of the European Supply Chain Executive Summit next week in Barcelona speaking about, “A Lean Approach to Carbon Neutrality,” but first we get to ask him a few questions on the bluEPrint.

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Panel: How will the Way People, Processes, and Technologies Interact Change in the Next Ten Years?
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Panel: How will the Way People, Processes, and Technologies Interact Change in the Next Ten Years?

June 5, 2023

At PMWS23 we recorded a panel on how the way people, processes, and technologies interact will change in the next ten years.

From discussing some of the forces and factors that are changing the way we operate, to debating how these influences will continue to evolve, and how they will shape our organizations, give this a listen!

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The Science of Leadership – What Differentiates Good from Great
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The Science of Leadership – What Differentiates Good from Great

December 14, 2022

Leadership has never been more important than it is today The leadership research is clear and we understand which qualities drive effective leadership Learn the science behind proven leadership characteristics and the competencies that build high-performing teams Hear how UnitedHealthcare scaled a shared language for attracting, assessing, developing and promoting talent Understand how learning behaviors and learning agility can contribute to building a culture of innovation — Stephanie Fehr EVP, Chief People Officer UnitedHealthcare Stephanie Fehr is Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer for UnitedHealthcare. In this role, she is responsible for building the UnitedHealthcare talent infrastructure and systemic…

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The New Era of Food Safety Needs a Great Team with Strong Leadership
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The New Era of Food Safety Needs a Great Team with Strong Leadership

September 30, 2022

Demonstrating that even before the global pandemic, people have always been the catalysts of change and the difference-makers in every aspect of our business, and especially when it comes to Food Safety, Quality, and Compliance How do you identify, support, and develop the future leaders of your organization to carry on the FSQ values your company is built upon? Mobilizing the unique culture of our team to embracing transformation and fresh perspectives while holding onto the best of what has always driven positive outcomes in turbulent times Creating a framework that encourages all employees to unlock their potential personally and…

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