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Fireside Chat: Executive Leadership Development: Top50 Program
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Fireside Chat: Executive Leadership Development: Top50 Program

Katy Jones is a strategic thought leader in the leadership and talent development space who customizes talent strategies to meet business demands and accelerates growth in leaders and teams. Katy joined Medtronic in February of 2024 as Vice President, Global Learning & Leadership Development, where she has responsibility for leadership development for entry-level employees to executives, along with the organization’s global learning strategy. Prior to Medtronic, Katy was the Head of Leadership Development for Walmart with responsibility for enterprise leadership development, manager enablement, and executive coaching. Katy built her L&D career at Walmart for 10 years through onboarding, internal consulting and facilitation, early talent strategy, employee experience, performance transformation, high potential and executive development, and foundational leadership development across the globe. In recent years, Katy won two Make a Difference Awards at Walmart, one in 2020 for her rapid response work on the corporate intern program and onboarding efforts during the pandemic, and another in 2022 for her work on implementing an HR competency model and development strategy for the Global People function. Katy’s team also was awarded the Josh Bersin HR Hero Award in 2022 for excellence in HR development.

Prior to Walmart, Katy worked in higher education, where she taught public speaking and communication studies, held a leadership role in academic administration, and developed and recruited faculty members. Katy has a BA in Public Relations from James Madison University and an MA in Communication Studies from the University of Arkansas.

Outside of work, Katy recently relocated to Minneapolis, MN with her husband, Kevin; daughter, Charlotte (6); and son, Patrick (4). When she’s not chasing her kiddos, Katy loves travel, live music, sports, and spicy food.

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Leadership Transformation Through Being More BMW
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Leadership Transformation Through Being More BMW

Focusing on effective programs, systems, and processes to engage and retain top talent that will deliver maximum employee retention

Making sure that you are purposeful when designing and building your company culture and aligning leadership on values

Understanding employee eagerness to stay with companies that deliver both upward and lateral development and long term professional growth

Exploring the benefits of developing robust talent review processes

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Cynthia Lapointe of Kerry — Work-Life Balance for Manufacturing Leaders
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Cynthia Lapointe of Kerry — Work-Life Balance for Manufacturing Leaders

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Cynthia Lapoint, a plant manager with Kerry, to talk about how manufacturing professionals address the issue of work-life balance in the ‘New Normal of Work.’ While many industries came through the pandemic embracing remote work and hybrid work models, manufacturers still need people on the shop floor doing important, hands-on tasks. There are opportunities for some people to have hybrid roles, but how does that impact culture? How do future leaders navigate the options of working from home versus coming into the factory? How should companies think about what their Top Talent wants and needs, and how does thinking about the individual help build long-term positive outcomes for the organization? For all that and more, give this episode a listen!

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The Future of Supply Chain Operations
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The Future of Supply Chain Operations

Biswaranjan Sen is a Chemical Engineer by training. He joined Unilever in 1991 and has worked in R&D and across various parts of the Supply Chain including manufacturing, planning, logistics, customer service and procurement. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Unilever Indonesia with responsibility for the Supply Chain between 2009 and 2012.

Following his subsequent roles as Vice President Procurement Chemicals and Vice President Group Supply Chain Personal Care, he became an Executive Vice President in Unilever in May 2017.

His current role covers responsibility for the Beauty and Personal Care Supply Chain, Planning and Engineering. He also leads the Supply Chain Transformation team.

Bish has worked across the world and is currently based in London, UK.

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Becky Crane of General Mills — A Bright Future for Supply Chain and Manufacturing Careers
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Becky Crane of General Mills — A Bright Future for Supply Chain and Manufacturing Careers

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Becky Crane, General Mills’ Vice President of Manufacturing & Engineering, to talk about how industry leaders are working to make careers in their manufacturing and supply chain organizations attractive to the next generation, especially in light of how people are thinking differently about their worklife-balance, goals, and expectations. Being an employer of choice is important, but how does a large manufacturing organization like General Mills find the right balance between being a great place to work and making sure the work gets done? In this interview, Becky talks about General Mills’ experience to date and the lessons learned she wants to share with other manufacturers and supply chain professionals to make sure they are making opportunities for their people to learn, grow, and make choices that benefit both themselves and their employers. For all this and more, give this episode a listen!

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Process Intelligence (PQ): The Key to Building High Functioning Leaders
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Process Intelligence (PQ): The Key to Building High Functioning Leaders

Shane A. Yount is a nationally recognized thought leader, author, and President of Competitive Solutions, Inc., an international Business Transformation consulting firm which pioneered the acclaimed organizational development system known as Process Based Leadership® – A business transformation methodology designed to create a sustainable culture of clarity, connectivity, and consistency through the use of Non-Negotiable Business Processes.

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Michael Kamarck & Pascal Bécotte — Global Talent Trends in Pharma and Biotech Technical Operations: A Perfect Storm
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Michael Kamarck & Pascal Bécotte — Global Talent Trends in Pharma and Biotech Technical Operations: A Perfect Storm

At the most recent edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit held May 15-16, 2023, in Boston, we spoke with Michael Kamarck, a senior industry executive, and Pascal Bécotte, the Managing Director of Russell Reynolds Associates, about the most serious challenge threatening to bottleneck the otherwise very bright future of medicine. For a number of reasons explored in both this interview and in this recent blog post, there are not enough qualified people to fill all the top jobs that need to be done, and this is not something that is going to be fixed in a day or even a few years without the industry working together in a decisive and unprecedented way to collectively develop its rising Top Talent in the technical operations space into the senior leaders that Small Molecule, Large Molecule, and especially the emerging Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products sectors cannot do without.

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Promoting Professional and Personal Growth to Inspire Your Top Talent
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Promoting Professional and Personal Growth to Inspire Your Top Talent

How to assess and develop your talents for future growth based on potential? Evaluating and aligning your rewards and development strategies to accelerate up-and-coming leadership candidates Establishing support network to transform ways of working and maintain employee engagement even during times of business transformation The role of the HR function in helping talents navigate their career and consider their options — Stephane Charbonnier Chief Human Resources Officer L’Oréal USA Stephane Charbonnier is Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer for L’Oréal USA, as of February 2017. In this role, Mr. Charbonnier is responsible for driving leadership…

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