Pete Baker is the Vice President for Human Resources and Communications at Amcor Rigid Packaging. 

Amcor is a world leader in manufacturing packaging for food, beverage, spirits, personal care, home care, and healthcare industries with 61 facilities in 12 countries.

Pete previously held senior HR roles at First Abu Dhabi Bank, AP Moller Maersk, and Procter &Gamble.  A native of Australia, Pete has lived in 9 countries throughout his career. Pete's passion for business is driving team effectiveness and leadership transformation. Pete started his career in sales before moving into HR and worked as a standup comedian for several years.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How Pete progressed from a commercial position to become a leader in the field of HR
• Amcor’s biggest challenges in developing sustainable packaging designs
• Empowering individuals and management to effectively handle certain difficulties within Amcor
• The biggest challenge that supply chains in the packaging sector will face in the next 10 years
• Advice for professionals wanting to make a career in supply chain and operations

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Pauline Tay brings with her over 25 years of HR experience across diverse industries in industrial consumer goods, and hospitality, and extensive regional and global experience.

Pauline has lived and worked in the US and led regional teams across the Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas. With core expertise in change management and transformation, organizational design and development, strategic workforce planning, and transition and integration. Currently, she is VP of HR, Asia Pacific at Griffith Foods Ltd., where she leads HR to serve the company's purpose of blending care and creativity to nourish the world.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How Pauline navigated through different industries
• Being more involved in the business and becoming an interim MD
• Helping employees through purpose-driven programs
• Investing in the development of people
• How can we take HR to the next level

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Sarita Das is the co-founder and CHRO of 3SC Analytics, an eight-year-old supply chain tech company led by professionals all across the globe. Earlier in her career, she has been a human resource professional in various MNCs including Visteon, Bayer, Nunhems, Zimmer Biomet, and Electa. Here at 3SC, Sarita has been working closely with the IT executives to help work on their in-house tools.

Creating and building 3SC has been one of the greatest achievements of her life. And here she is today with 250 plus team members, with footprints in India, Southeast Asia, and Europe, and growing. She desires to make 3SC one of the most admired solution providers in the world.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How Sarita started her journey in supply chain and involvement in 3SC 
• Supporting and enabling growth inside 3SC
• Biggest challenges for attracting and retaining talent
• Creating a culture for 3SC - focusing on communication and change management 
• How 3SC are managing inter-department transfers inside the organization
• The importance of change and patience in joining a scale-up

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Radu Palamariu recently spoke with Deb Crowe on the topic of changing careers of functions, hard and soft skills to have as a supply chain professional, and establishing connections and having the right mentor in the company.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Radu’s accidental choice of recruitment and supply chain as a career
• How to embrace what you "suck" at
• Secret sauce to find the right C-Level candidate
• Advice for all the people in these times of disruption
• "Heart centered leadership" is…

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Rushit comes with 20 Year of Executive Search and Selection with 8 years of Supply Chain Consulting service within APAC. Have worked for more than 40 countries with diversified industries and functionality.

In his current role at Alcott Global, he is managing Supply Chain Management (SCM), Logistics, Procurement, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Quality and Operations functions and catering to Pharma, Packaging, FMCG, food and beverage, Industrial Equipment and Medical Device industries in the Asia Pacific.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Being an executive recruiter during the pandemic
• Hiring and retaining top talents
• How the whole diversity and inclusion agenda is being practiced
• How can a job seeker and professionals non-supply chain and logistics background make sure to position themselves correctly
• Technical or soft skills for a professional to get into senior level leadership roles 

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Jim serves as Vice President Human Resources for the Communications Solutions Segment, Channel Business, and Enterprise Functions at TE Connectivity and is based in the United States.

In this role, Jim is responsible for leading the development and execution of the organizations’ talent, culture, and organizational effectiveness strategies to drive high performance and business growth.

Prior to joining TE Connectivity, Jim worked in positions of increasing responsibility mainly focusing on Organizational Performance, Employee Engagement, and Strategic Talent Initiatives.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Jim’s career journey at TE connectivity for 14 years
• Practical tips where HR and talent can be a maximizer of business instead of being a back end function
• Using feedback from ground up and data to bring about organizational transformation
• Addressing the confidence gap of 1000+ female leaders in his organization 
• 1 thing that had the most impact on Jim’s career

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After 20 years in corporate HR holding senior-level roles, Philippa, or Pip as she is known, decided to focus on helping HR professionals bring together new technology and people in the workplace. Today Pip educates HR professionals about the technology shaping Industry 4.0 incl AI, RPA, and VR, empowering them to play an active role in creating a human world of work with technology.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Pip’s driving force on her career journey
• Digital transformation race challenges
• Hybrid workflow force look like on post pandemic
• Talent leaders challenges both in HR and business
• Technical or soft skills for a professional to get into senior leadership roles
• Examples of kind of collaboration with winning success
• Advice to people entering the workforce

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Swati Patil Rao is currently the APAC Head of Supply Chain and Logistics for Zoetis, world’s largest producer of medication and vaccinations for animals.

Swati brings in 20 year of extensive experience managing diverse aspects of supply chain from site planning to demand forecasting, new product introductions to new Distribution Centre start-ups, regional supply chains to global franchise management, operating own warehouses to setting up 3PL operations, to name a few. However, what Swati is most passionate about is building high performing teams, nurturing teams and grooming leaders.

Prior to Zoetis, Swati spent 14+ years with Procter & Gamble working both in India and Singapore.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Driving force that made Swati a successful leader
• How to have a cohesive team and facing challenges together
• Learning and developing teams in midsize organizations
• Being a successful woman leader in the supply chain 
• One change that Swati made in her professional life that had the most impact in her career journey
• Most important soft and technical skill for a professional to get into senior level leadership roles
• How to have an exciting career

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Carlos Torres is an HR leader with a wide experience including HR Business Partnering, Centre of Expertise and HR Transformation leadership roles.

Carlos has extensive experience working with multinational organisations in the USA, UK, Japan, Switzerland, Netherlands, Malaysia, Russia, Morocco, Angola, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago.

He is the Leadership and Talent Senior Director at ASM. Prior to joining ASM International, Carlos had worked at Imperial Brands, Korn/Ferry International and Accenture.

Carlos has a major in Production Engineering and has completed a Postgraduate Certification on Change Management.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Driving force for Carlos’ career
• How growth translates to somebody who's managing the leadership and talent function
• How does ASM make sure to attract young blood
• Different steps in driving and growing the number of female population or particular group in the organization
• Most important skills required in reaching senior executive roles

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Anjali is an HR leader with over 15 years’ experience with proven expertise in leading transformations, talent management, organization design and development, employee engagement and communication, diversity & inclusion, rewards and HR business partnering, across multiple countries.

Currently, she is the Regional Head of Talent Centre of Competence for Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa, for Nestlé. She is leading a multicultural, semi-virtual team delivering talent acquisition, recruitment marketing, employer branding, leadership and organization development, team effectiveness, coaching, mentoring, diversity & inclusion, and learning and capability building solutions.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Anjali's career story with Nestlé- various transformations she has been part of
• Enabling hybrid and remote teams to thrive
• Most important skills required in reaching senior executive roles
• Career advice for professionals and leaders at different stages

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Agnes is currently leading the Talent Acquisition function at L'Oréal for the SAPMENA Zone that covers markets from Australia, New Zealand to Southeast Asia, to India, Middle East and North Africa. She is part of the SAPMENA HR Leadership team and is responsible for the regional talent acquisition strategy. Agnes joined L'Oréal in June 2019 as the Vice President Talent Acquisition for the Asia Pacific zone.

Prior to her role at L'Oréal, Agnes held the global talent acquisition leadership role for Signify/ Philips Lighting and was part of the Global HR leadership team. She spent a brief period with LVMH as the Group HR Director for Southeast Asia and India. Agnes started her recruitment career with Heidrick & Struggles and later Korn/Ferry where she specialized in hiring senior level positions in the Consumer sector.

Before her career in recruitment, Agnes was based in Shanghai with a training & operational role in the education sector. She started her career as a teacher and holds a degree in education from the University of Melbourne.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Today's remote working arrangement considering all the intergenerational dynamics
• How L’Oréal  hires and groom young talents 
• Ensuring diversity and inclusion within the talent acquisition sphere
• Business sense within L’Oréal 
• Challenges of hiring in a post pandemic world
• Most important skills required in reaching senior executive roles
• How to have an exciting career- career advice

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Sonali is the Vice-President Human Resources for Asia Pacific, India, Middle-East & Africa Supply Chain, Labour Relations and Singapore Headquarters at Procter & Gamble. She has holistic leadership experience of 23 years across P&G, leading multicultural organisations in Country/Region HR leadership, handling mergers /acquisitions, Business Partnership, Change Management, Talent Development, Equality & Inclusion.

She has lived and worked in India, Vietnam, Singapore, building a legacy of talent internally, as well as the external community via mentoring. Arising out of her first-hand experience as a female leader pursuing an international career, Sonali is committed to driving positive change and inclusion in the organization and community.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Driving inclusion in different countries
• How P&G takes care of the mental health of its employees
• Talent attraction,  acquisition, and development management
• Essentials skills to move to senior level leadership roles
• Building resilience at large and during a crisis
• Key factors which allowed Sonali to have such a thriving international career

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Susana Elvira is the Chief Human Resources Officer of AP Moller-Maersk. She is a great professional in the HR field and has been with Maersk for close to 20 years in many different roles across different geographies.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Driving change and why it isn't a straight line - sometimes 3 steps forward are followed by one step backward
• Recruitment and how to attract the right people
• What keeps people at Maersk
• The power of being authentic and vulnerable
• Susana's own story around diversity and inclusion

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About  Dylan Choong:
Dylan is the current Vice President, Human Resources for Adidas for the South East Asia as well as Commercial and Global functions for its APAC HQ. Prior to this role, he was Regional Vice President, Human Resources, for Sephora (LVMH) South East Asia where he successfully developed people & organizational capabilities to enable Sephora South East Asia’s hyper growth, including leading the digital and omni-channel transformation over 10 countries as well as opening of new markets.

Before Sephora, he was the Director of Human Resources at Starwood Asia Pacific Hotels & Resorts – then Starwood’s largest international division across 17 countries in Asia Pacific. There, he led Starwood Asia Pacific to become an employer-of-choice with more than 25 awards and accolades won.  He was also recognised by Workforce as a Game Changer in 2015 – an award that represents some of the best HR practitioners and strategists dedicated to pushing the profession forward with innovative people-management practices.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• How to effectively lead HR and people functions during acquisition on both sides of the transaction
• How does Adidas attract and hire the best talent in a competitive market
• Approaching leadership development especially in an Ascription based culture we see in Asia
• What technical and soft skills are  important for a professional to get into a senior-level leadership role
• Advice to people entering the HR workforce

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About  Mette Johansson:
Mette Johansson is the founder of MetaMind Training, a Singapore-based, globally active training company that transforms managers into leaders. Also, she is the founder and chair of KeyNote Women Speakers, a directory of women speakers, and one of six co-founders of the Inclusive Leaders Institute.

She worked in corporate leadership positions for two decades before she found her calling as a social entrepreneur. She helps others find their purpose, living and leading authentically and unlocking energy to accomplish extraordinary things.

About Andrew Bryant:
As a Global Influencer on Self-leadership and Effective leadership, Andrew is on a mission to ‘Wake People Up’ to the power of taking ownership for their thinking, feeling and actions.

Andrew is an Amazon best-selling author, Certified Speaking Professional, and an Executive Coach. He has  spoken for TEDx and for audiences as large as 12,000. He also facilitates breakthrough learning sessions and cultural change for senior leadership teams and he helps C-level leaders to scale themselves and their companies through 1-to-1 coaching.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Women self-sabotage or self-limiting beliefs about getting to Senior level and C-suite leadership in supply chain
• Success stories where companies have been successful in bridging the gap of female and male representation in leadership
• How can males be a part of the movement of supporting and  getting more women in leadership
• Creating a safe space for women inside the organization
• Advice for all women starting their career

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About Manish Bundhun:

Manish is a C-Suite Leader & Executive Coach, with over 18+ years in the field of Human Resources and Organisation Development. Holder of an MBA, he is also a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) & Neuro-Semantics.

About Radu Palamariu:

Radu is the Managing Director Asia Pacific of Alcott Global and the Global Head of Supply Chain & Logistics Practice. He has been working on C-level and top management executive search assignments with Top Fortune 500 companies and local Asia conglomerates, particularly for manufacturing, logistics, transportation, supply chain management, and e-commerce.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

• Attracting top talent and involving Customers in Building Culture
• Skills gap in Supply Chain
• 3Ns of reaching senior leadership in Supply Chain Management
• The power of storytelling
• Three angles to executive coaching- transition, relationship, and performance coaching

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