Leaders in Supply Chain Talent – Details, episodes & analysis

Paula Landmann, Chief Talent & Development Officer at Novartis, joins Fei Yu to discuss what it takes to build future-ready talent and leadership in an AI-driven world. From upskilling and leadership development to the role of AI in everyday work, Paula shares how Novartis is preparing people and organizations for what comes next.

In the conversation, she reflects on how her leadership style has evolved, why creating space for others matters more than having all the answers, and how internal Novartis tools like Coach Mira help employees learn, reflect, and grow. She also explains why empathy, judgment, and continuous learning will remain essential in the future of work.

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Ashley Herd has trained over 250,000 managers, led HR and legal at McKinsey and Yum! Brands, and built a global following with her practical leadership tools. In this episode, we dig into the real lever of workplace performance, the manager. Ashley shares the mindset shifts and frameworks that help supply chain leaders manage with empathy, structure, and trust even under pressure. We explore “cozy joggers” leadership, psychological clarity, and the ripple effects managers create at work and beyond.

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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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