Diane Gherson

Diane Gherson

Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States
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As the recently-retired CHRO of IBM, Diane is actively involved in the fast-moving world…

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  • The Kraft Heinz Company Graphic

    The Kraft Heinz Company

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    New York, United States

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    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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    Armonk, New York

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    Armonk, NY

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  • Highly skilled professionals want your work but not your job

    Harvard Business Review

    With 36% of the workforce opting for self employment, about one-third earning $150k or more in areas like software and product development and other scarce talent areas, employers are adopting a different way of leading these key workers on their teams. But most importantly, employers are starting to rethink what they will need to offer to keep their core employee workforce motivated to jump in when the freelancers have logged off and to keep the lights on in crises. Addressing toxic…

    With 36% of the workforce opting for self employment, about one-third earning $150k or more in areas like software and product development and other scarce talent areas, employers are adopting a different way of leading these key workers on their teams. But most importantly, employers are starting to rethink what they will need to offer to keep their core employee workforce motivated to jump in when the freelancers have logged off and to keep the lights on in crises. Addressing toxic workplaces, increased paid time off and sharing corporate success are at the top of the list.

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  • Managers Can't Do It All

    Harvard Business Review magazine March-April 2022

    A call to overhaul the manager role for the digital era, with three case examples of how companies have successfully re-purposed the role, with a digital infrastructure, new org design, and re-skilling and certification for the new responsibilities and capabilities required.

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  • Accelerating the Journey to HR 3.0

    IBM Institute for Business Value

    https://lnkd.in/eBcKYg5G
    HR is ripe for reinvention especially in the wake of covid. This research report identifies the difference in HR practices of top performing companies vs other companies. Leveraging the digital capabilities of the 2020s, these companies use deeply personalized experience-centric design; they place skills at the core of the enterprise; they employ data-driven decision making powered by AI; and they practice agile for speed and responsiveness. Finally they have…

    https://lnkd.in/eBcKYg5G
    HR is ripe for reinvention especially in the wake of covid. This research report identifies the difference in HR practices of top performing companies vs other companies. Leveraging the digital capabilities of the 2020s, these companies use deeply personalized experience-centric design; they place skills at the core of the enterprise; they employ data-driven decision making powered by AI; and they practice agile for speed and responsiveness. Finally they have adopted radical levels of transparency to preserve trust and reduce reputational risk.

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  • Case study: rebooting work for a digital era

    MIT Sloan Management Review

    Using agile to develop a performance management program with 360,000 employees at IBM

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  • HR Goes Agile (HBR) - A Conversation with Diane Gherson, IBM's Head of HR https://hbr.org/2018/03/hr-goes-agile

    Harvard Business Review

    Interview re-published in April 2020, Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
    by Harvard Business Review, Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, Peter Cappelli, Phil Simon

  • Ulrich, Schiemann, Sartain (eds.),The Rise of HR, article: HR Disrupted

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Patents

  • US Patent, Predictive Analytics, 2013

    US

Honors & Awards

  • HR Leader of the Year

    HR Digest

  • Fellow

    National Academy of Human Resources

    Elected by previously-named Fellows of the Academy for contribution and impact on the Human Resources profession.

  • HR Executive of the Year

    Human Resources Executive

Languages

  • French

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