Description
Join Heather Whiteman, Head of People Strategy, Analytics
& Operations at General Electric (GE) Digital, as she provides a look into
GE Digital’s challenges and successes along the journey of creating a digital
business within one of the world’s largest industrial companies. This case
study will focus on the changing nature of work and how to define and identify
the future of work so that strategies can be built today to plan for those
needs.
Contributors
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Heather Whiteman, Head of People Strategy, Analytics & Operations, General Electric (GE) Digital
Heather’s work focuses on identifying and defining key capabilities and talent segments and utilizing advanced workforce analytic techniques, such as machine learning, text analytics or modeling, to drive business insights and decision making in the areas of recruiting, learning, development, org design and culture. Of late her work has been particularly focused on identifying & defining the talent shifts and strategy necessary to transform an industrial organization into a digital one.
Heather’s background includes leading Strategic Workforce Planning for GE Aviation and the Workforce Planning & Analytics group at Pacific Gas & Electric, as well as consulting in equal employment, affirmative action, validation and selection testing. She has a master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, a PhD in Human Capital Management and currently teaches Introduction to Human Capital Analytics at UC Berkeley Extension.