David Hindley
Executive Vice President - Human Resources Servier
David Hindley is Executive Vice President of Human Resources and a member of the Executive Committee at Servier. With over 20 years’ experience, David has held senior HR leadership roles at organisations including Danone, AXA, Mars and TotalEnergies. David specialises in talent development, organisational transformation, and leadership model design, having led major change programmes in global, complex environments. At Servier, David focuses on building workforce capability and supporting large-scale transformation in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.
Seminars
Work in small, facilitated peer groups to tackle real problems, compare what’s working in practice, and leave with clear, implementable solutions you can apply immediately.
- What needs to shift in leadership capability, mindset and change management approaches to ensure AI transformation is driven from within, not imposed from the outside?
- How do you create true ownership, where leaders take responsibility for identifying and driving AI opportunities in their own areas?
- What support, guardrails and incentives are needed to help leaders make confident decisions about adoption, prioritisation and risk?
- Why traditional strategic workforce planning failed to deliver – how years of PowerPoint‑ and Excel‑driven exercises created complexity without impact, and why Servier saw AI as the inflection point that made skills‑based planning operational rather than theoretical
- Inside Servier’s AI‑enabled skills architecture – how AI‑driven skills mapping (across hard and soft skills) is unlocking visibility into career paths, enabling cross‑functional mobility, equipping managers for meaningful development conversations, and shifting the organisation from job‑based to capability‑based thinking
- Redefining success in workforce transformation – why early indicators like internal mobility, career clarity, development plan quality, and retention of early‑career talent matter more than traditional ROI measures, and how HR is partnering with leaders to turn workforce insight into a repeatable, scalable planning discipline over the next 18 months
Unpack how skills strategies move beyond frameworks into real workforce decisions. Explore how to connect skills visibility with hiring, mobility, and redeployment, and how to ensure skills insights actually influence how work is planned and resourced.
Interactive Q&A Session Facilitated by the Chair
