Johann Cheminelle

Global Head of Strategic Workforce Planning & Workforce Analytics Lonza

Johann Cheminelle leads Strategic Workforce Planning and Workforce Analytics at Lonza, focusing on aligning talent strategy with business growth in a global life sciences organisation. Johann is responsible for building data-driven approaches to workforce planning, enabling organisations to respond to changing capability needs and drive productivity. Johann’s work centres on integrating analytics, skills insights and future workforce modelling to support scalable, evidence-based decision-making.

Seminars

Tuesday 29th September 2026
Interactive Action Lab F: How Can We Make Workforce Planning More Intelligent, Practical & Usable?

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 does a smarter, AI enabled approach to workforce planning look like – one that avoids over engineered models and genuinely helps organisations make decisions?
  • How do you translate complex data into simple, actionable insights that leaders can actually use to make trade-offs?
  • How can workforce planning become a continuous, decision-support discipline rather than a static, annual exercise?
Wednesday 30th September 2026
Discover: Moving From Static Organisational Headcount to Dynamic Workforce Liquidity: How Lonza Is Designing an AI‑Enabled Workforce at Scale
1:00 pm
  • How Lonza is evolving strategic workforce planning to manage humans and AI agents as a single workforce system, enabling sustainable productivity and resilience in life sciences
  • How translating skills into everyday tasks revealed where AI could augment work, unlocking hidden capacity and delivering measurable productivity gains without increasing headcount
  • What it takes to move from AI ambition to enterprise execution, including the data foundations, internal talent markets and governance required to scale impact beyond pilots
Wednesday 30th September 2026
Develop: Designing Work at the Task Level
1:40 pm

Explore how breaking work down into tasks unlocks new opportunities for automation, augmentation, and efficiency. Dive into how task-level visibility changes workforce planning, reveals hidden capacity, and enables more fluid workforce models.

Interactive Q&A Session Facilitated by the Chair

Johann Cheminelle