Zaka Farhat
Global SVP, Talent, Learning and Capability Development GlaxoSmithKline
Zaka Farhat is Global Senior Vice President for Talent, Learning, Organisation & Capability Development at GSK. With over 25 years of HR leadership experience across multinational organisations including Johnson & Johnson and GE, Zaka specialises in organisational transformation, workforce capability building, and talent strategy. At GSK, Zaka leads global efforts to develop skills-based organisations and enable AI-driven workforce transformation, focusing on reskilling, leadership development and enterprise capability building.
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?
- Discover how GlaxoSmithKline decommissioned fragmented learning tech and rebuilt a unified, AI-powered skills stack that infers skills from job architecture and employee experience across 72,000 employees
- Connecting a live skills taxonomy, personalised learning, AI coaching, and skills insights to give leaders and HR real time visibility of future skill gaps and organisational capability
- Equipping HR business partners to plan for a blended workforce – redesigning roles, job architecture, and operating models where humans and AI agents deliver value together
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
