Insight222

As part of my role at Insight222, since May 2019 I have hosted the Digital HR Leaders podcast where I speak to a range of chief human resources officers, heads of people analytics, other senior HR leaders, thought leaders and executives of HR technology firms who are pushing a data-driven and digital HR agenda.

Since the podcast was created, we have released nearly 200 episodes, with each episode attracting in excess of 5,000 listens.

Find out more and access past episodes here: https://www.myhrfuture.com/digital-hr-leaders-podcast
Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/digital-hr-leaders-with-david-green/id1459322652
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/40LdYb32asJxvZ9JnYYlTL

Host, Digital HR Leaders Podcast

After my initial period as a NED, I become an Executive Director and full member of the board at Insight222 in January 2019 with a global remit for the business.

Insight222 is a networking, consulting and learning business focused on People Analytics. We supports chief human resource officers, people analytics leaders and senior human resources executives to create sustainable business value with people analytics and develop a data-driven culture in HR. Our signature offering, 'The People Analytics Program', provides members (Heads of People Analytics and CHROs) with techniques, co-creation workshops, on-line collaboration, training and design thinking techniques to help them increase expertise and improve their success in bringing more value to their organisations.

Insight222's purpose is to put People Analytics, as a discipline, at the centre of business and upskill the HR profession -- in turn helping Insight222's current and future clients create more cultural and economic value through the wise and ethical use of people data and analytics. 

Through myHRfuture.com, we provide online training for HR professionals on people analytics, digital HR and the future of work. See https://www.myhrfuture.com/academy for details of all courses and https://www.myhrfuture.com/academy-teams, if you are looking to upskill your HR team. 

If you are a people analytics leader or CHRO interested in finding out more about The People Analytics Program, please get in touch at david.green@insight222.com

Executive Director and Member of the Board

I joined Insight222 initially as a Non-Executive Director to help the company advance its strategy, portfolio of clients and assets. 

During 2018, we grew significantly and by the end of the year we had 50 member organisations as part of The People Analytics Program across Europe and North America.

Examples of the activities delivered to members in 2018 were:
- The inaugural Global Executive Retreat, which took place in Philadelphia in October 2018 and brought together the Head of People Analytics from our European and North America member organisations for two days of learning, reflection and planning.
- An Ethics Charter co-created through design thinking workshops with members.
- The launch of the Nine Dimensions for Excellence In People Analytics model, which I created together with Jonathan Ferrar
- Quarterly regional peer meetings in Europe (London, Amsterdam, Zürich and Copenhagen) and the United States (New York and San Francisco)
- The launch of the myHRfuture academy and blog

Non Executive Director & Board Advisor

Zandel | davidrgreen.com

I created Zandel in 2018 as a business centred on providing three services in the people analytics, HR and future of work domain. These are outlined below, with further information available on my website - davidrgreen.com:

SPEAKING: I am a popular keynote speaker, moderator and chair who has presented at conferences all over the world. For example, I have chaired Tucana’s People Analytics World and People Analytics Forum conferences since 2015, I was the main stage emcee at the UNLEASH conference in Amsterdam in 2018, and Paris in 2019 and 2022, and was the co-chair of the People Analytics & Future of Work (PAFOW) conferences in San Francisco, Philadelphia and London from 2017 to 2020.

Recent speaking engagements include:
- HR4results (São Paulo, Jun 2023)
- HR Tech by HR Norge (Oslo, May 2023)
- People Analytics World (London, Apr 2023)
- Workday Rising Europe (Stockholm, Nov 2022)
- UNLEASH World (Paris, Oct 2022)

CONSULTING: I deliver a range of consulting services to help organisations embark upon and progress their people analytics and digital HR journeys. I am regularly invited to share my knowledge on people analytics, HR technology and the future of work at internal company events, which since the start of 2017 includes global organisations such as ABN Amro, Bosch, Vodafone, Rolls Royce, Amdocs and AXA.

ADVISORY: I am available for board advisory and Non-Executive Director roles in the people analytics, HR technology and digital HR spaces.

If you would like to get in touch, please contact me at dgreen@zandel.org

Founder and CEO

UNLEASH

I have partnered with UNLEASH (formerly known as HR Tech World), the organisers of the award-winning conferences in cities including Paris, Las Vegas, Amsterdam, London and San Francisco since 2015.

•	MC: I was MC of the main stage at the UNLEASH World shows in Amsterdam (Oct 2018), and Paris (Oct 2019 and Oct 2022)
•	CHAIR/MODERATOR: I moderated the Smart Data track at the shows in Paris (Oct 2016), London (Mar 2017), Amsterdam (Oct 2017), London (Mar 2018), Las Vegas (May 2018), Las Vegas (May 2019) and Paris (Oct 2019) as well as the Influencer Stage (Lon 2019)
•	SPEAKER: I spoke on People Analytics Trends and Innovations at the inaugural US show in San Francisco (Jun 2017), People Analytics Readiness in Europe in Amsterdam (Oct 2017), Ethics in People Analytics and Six Trends in People Analytics (both London, Mar 2018), 'The role of ONA in People Analytics' (Las Vegas, May 2018) and How to Create Business Value from People Analytics (Lon 2019, Las Vegas 2019)
•	WRITER:  regular contributor to the UNLEASH Blog since 2015 where my articles are consistently amongst the highest viewed. 

For more information on the UNLEASH shows please visit http://www.unleashgroup.io

Speaker and Main Stage Emcee

TrustSphere

I joined TrustSphere's advisory board to support the executive team drive the next level of the company’s evolution as a leading provider in the people analytics and relationship analytics technology space until May 2022, when Bigtincan invested in the company.

Board Advisor

People Analytics & Future Of Work

I worked as Conference Co-Chair, Speaker and Advisor to Al Adamsen and the PAFOW (People Analytics and the Future of Work) from 2017 until 2021. Until the onset of the pandemic, this took on PAFOW in-person events in San Francisco (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020), Philadelphia (2017, 2018 and 2019), and London (2019) plus virtual conferences in April 2020 and January 2021.

Visit pafow.net for details of upcoming events.

Conference Co-Chair, Speaker & Advisor

IBM Watson Talent combines the power of people analytics and workforce science, with market-leading solutions to help organisations build an impassioned and engaged workforce and deliver better business outcomes.

I was responsible for:
•	Helping clients get started and accelerate their people analytics journeys through a combination of consulting, solutions and services 
•	Amplifying the voice of IBM Watson Talent in the marketplace as it relates to people analytics, digital HR transformation, AI and the future of work
•	Promoting the wider adoption by HR of a data driven, analytical and insight led approach to link people based decisions with improved business outcomes and employee experience
•	Working with the IBM Smarter Workforce Institute research team, which conducts rigorous and innovative research programs about all aspects of the workforce

Global Director, People Analytics | IBM Watson Talent

Tucana

I partnered with Tucana, the organisers of the People Analytics World and People Analytics Forum conferences in London since 2014. The Tucana events grew to be the best regarded and highest attended conferences on people analytics in Europe. 

•	Chair, People Analytics World 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018
•	Chair, People Analytics Forum 2016 and 2017
•	Advised on content and speakers
•	Writer and a co-host of the People Analytics Podcast

Conference Chair, Advisor, Writer and Podcast Host

Various HR & People Analytics blogs and conferences

I write and speak on some of the key tenets driving this seismic change. Principally, this enables me to indulge my passion for helping to make analytics and evidence based decision making part of HR’s standard practice.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Since the start of 2016, I have spoken at and/or chaired 40+ conferences across the world including: HR Tech World (Paris, London, Amsterdam & San Francisco), People Analytics World/Forum (London), Stamford Global Workforce Analytics Summits (Amsterdam, Sydney, New York & Singapore), People Analytics & The Future of Work (San Francisco & Philadelphia), HR Digital Summit (Moscow), Social Recruiting Days (Berlin), hiQ Elevate (San Francisco), HR Technology Conference (Las Vegas), HR Norge HR Tech & People Analytics Conferences (Oslo), Beyond HR Leadership Forum (Amsterdam) & HR Congress (Amsterdam & Brussels). I have also been invited to speak at internal company events on people analytics, HR Tech and the future of work including with: ABN AMRO, Bosch, Vodafone, BT and AXA. 

This led to me establishing Zandel Ltd in April 2018, which acts as an outlet for my speaking and advisory work.

Please feel free to contact me on dgreen@zandel.org with any speaking or advisory opportunities.

Speaker, Conference Chair & Writer | People Analytics, the Future of Work

Cielo

Cielo is recognised as a leading global partner for recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and talent management solutions. 

As part of the European leadership team, I was responsible for:
•	Global and multi-regional new business pursuits and solutions design
•	Growth of existing customers through regional expansion and additional services
•	Leading out our people analytics services and capability

Director / VP | Business Development | Customer Solutions | People Analytics

Capita

Responsible for the consulting, solution design and commercial delivery of tailored end-to-end and/or project based talent acquisition, RPO and MSP solutions both for organisations considering outsourcing and/or co-sourcing options.

I was responsible for leading the creation and go-to market strategy for a Professional Services offering. This was founded upon a project I also led to establish Strategic Resourcing Assessment tool, which measured the effectiveness of the resourcing function against the objectives of the business.

Solutions & Development Director | Head of Professional Services

Co-Author of Excellence in People Analytics | People Analytics leader | Director, Insight222 & myHRfuture.com | Conference speaker | Host, Digital HR Leaders Podcast

I am a globally respected writer, speaker, conference chair and executive consultant on people analytics, data-driven HR and the future of work.

My main role is as an Executive Director at Insight222. Our clients include several Fortune100 firms and through 'The People Analytics Program', we help member organisations create more value and better employee experience through the wise and ethical use of people analytics. The consumer side of Insight222 - myHRfuture.com - provides training for HR professionals in 'future-oriented' topics.

WRITING | PODCASTING
I write regularly about people analytics and its role in the future of work and the evolution of the HR function. My articles are published on LinkedIn and myHRfuture.com. Subscribe to my Digital HR Leaders newsletter and podcast via myHRfuture: https://www.myhrfuture.com/subscribe 

SPEAKING
I am fortunate to speak at and chair conferences all over the world. Recent and upcoming speaking engagements include:
- UNLEASH World (Paris, Oct 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019)
- UNLEASH America (Las Vegas, May 2025)
- Workday Rising Europe (2024, 2023 and 2022), Workday Rising US (2024)
- People Analytics World (London, 2014-2025), Zurich 2025, 2024, New York 2025, 2024 Amsterdam, 2023)
- Wharton People Analytics Conference (2025)
- Workhuman Live (London, 2025)
- People Matters TechHR India (Delhi, 2025)
- Visier Outsmart (London, 2024)
- HR4results by Gupy (São Paulo, Jun 2023)
- HR Tech by HR Nørge (Oslo, May 2023)

GET IN TOUCH
Please feel free to follow me here on LinkedIn and subscribe to my LinkedIn newsletter - Data Driven HR Monthly. 

If you would like to book me as a speaker/chair, please contact me at dgreen@zandel.org.

If you are a people analytics leader or CHRO interested in joining Insight222's People Analytics Program, or finding about more about how we upskill HR professionals in data literacy, please get in touch at david.green@insight222.com.  

For my full biography, please visit davidrgreen.com.

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🎙️ "Today’s chief people officers are central to driving organizational resilience, business transformation and workforce readiness."

A new report from the World Economic Forum offers a strategic blueprint for chief people officers (CPOs) navigating the new world of work. 

Based on a survey of over 130 global people leaders, the report's key finding is that the people function is playing an increasingly strategic role in shaping business transformation and growth. 

While the short-term labour market outlook reflects caution, with many organisations delaying hiring and restructuring decisions, CPOs see long-term opportunities for workforce transformation. 

The report emphasises that CPOs are now central to driving organisational resilience, business transformation, and workforce readiness. A large majority of those surveyed state that their firms rely on them to actively co-drive and co-design company direction. 

The top three strategic imperatives for the year ahead are: 
1️⃣ Revising organisational structures. 
2️⃣ Fostering culture and purpose. 
3️⃣ Advancing intentional and responsible workforce AI deployment. 

The report concludes that to drive this transformation, people leaders must develop core competencies such as business acumen, digital fluency, and stakeholder influence. This will position the HR function as central to future business success. 

Kudos to the authors: Adèle Jacquard, Isabelle Leliaert, and Till Alexander Leopold. Thanks to Seth Hollander, MBA and Hanadi El Sayyed for drawing my attention to the report.

🚀 The report is featured in the September edition of the Data Driven HR Monthly, which you can access here: https://lnkd.in/eYMxaczQ 🚀

#chiefpeopleofficer #humanresources #peopleanalytics #workforceplanning #futureofwork

WEF | Chief People Officers Outlook

🎙️ “If your HR function only has access to data within HR, it's always going to be backwards-looking. It can only be predictive and prescriptive when you pull in the data from other functions. So, the best HR organisations are led by chief people officers with a tremendous amount of influence so that they can convince IT, security, legal, finance and sales to put all of that data together.” 

🤔 How can HR transform into an insight-driven function? 

That’s the overarching question I tackle in the new episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast. My guest is Jenny Dearborn, MBA, who has held executive roles both in HR and business at companies including SAP Success Factors, HP and Sun Microsystems. Jenny is now the Chief People Strategy Officer at BTS and recently co-authored (with Kelly Rider), The Insight-Driven Leader – a book I highly recommend.

🎙️ “The best advice I ever got and now repeat to others is that if you want to have a career in HR leadership, the best thing to do is leave HR and come back.”

In our conversation, Jenny makes the case for a bold shift: from reactive, rear-view reporting to forward-looking, insight-driven action. In the episode, Jenny and I discuss:

🔎 Why “data-driven” HR often falls short, and what insight-driven really means
🔎 The risks of relying on outdated metrics that don’t influence business decisions
🔎 What CEOs should be demanding from HR leaders
🔎 How top organisations are transforming HR into a strategic, insight-generating function
🔎 What it looks like when HR operates like a product organisation with clear outcomes, user focus, and measurable value.
🔎 How CHROs can build trusted partnerships with CFOs and CIOs

🎙️ “The relationship between the CEO and CHRO sets the tone for how HR is viewed, and how impactful and successful it can be for the entire organisation… Excellence in business acumen is the biggest differentiator between the best CHROs and the rest of the pack.”

🙏 Thanks to Jenny for sharing her time and expertise with listeners. Thanks too to Julius Schelstraete 🐺, Reinhard De Milt and the TechWolf team for sponsoring this series of the podcast, as well as Oceane, Jasmine and the teams at Insight222, myHRfuture and Listen for bringing the podcast to life.

cc. Jeremy, Amit, Mikaël, Patrick, Richard, Michelle, Craig, Dan, Kelley, Tony, Marta, Katarina, L., Steve, Alexis, Dr. Christian, Ron, Jason, David, Hanadi, Philippa, Amanda, Stela, Stephanie, Sukumaran, Angela, Jacob, Martha, Narelle, Nick,

#humanresources #chiefpeopleofficer #peopleanalytics #hrtech #learning #workforceplanning #hrpodcast #insight222

🎙️ "Even with clean data, sound models, and well-defined decision levers, poor storytelling can dilute impact."

🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Storytelling is commonly referred to as the last mile challenge in people analytics in order to move from insights to decisions and ultimately to outcomes. 

Our own research at Insight222 into building data literacy in HR identified storytelling as one of five core skills. 

As such a new article - How One Google Team Built Storytelling Into Analytics - by Jiaxi Z. an analytics leader at Google is a helpful read for Chief People Officers and people analytics leaders looking to build data-driven HR functions. 

The article explains how a Google team learned that decision-making stalls when insights lack a clear narrative and connection to what executives care about. 

Jiaxi outlines a framework for building storytelling into analytics by creating a four-layer framework (see Figure). The four layers are: 

1️⃣ Data layer: 
👉 to build business-aligned data foundations. 

2️⃣ Analytics layer: 
👉 to design flexible, interpretable models that anticipate and address executive needs. 

3️⃣ Decision layer: 
👉 to structure outputs around actionable levers, trade-offs, and constraints. 

4️⃣ Narrative layer: 
👉 to deliver coherent, contextualised insights that lead to action.

🚀 The article is featured in the September edition of the Data Driven HR Monthly, which you can access here: https://lnkd.in/eYMxaczQ 🚀

#humanresources #peopleanalytics #storytelling #learning

Valuetainment

- Chief Human Resources Officer at Lion Holdings, leading People & Culture for Valuetainment, Bet-David Consulting, and Minnect.
- Responsible for developing and executing the people strategies that empower our teams and drive business impact in a hypergrowth, values-driven start-up

Chief Human Resources Officer

People Analytics Partners

I founded People Analytics Partners, a platform that connects companies with a curated group of experts in people analytics & workplace technology for fractional work.  

We bring together a global network of over 100 practitioners and thought leaders in 14 countries with deep expertise in people analytics, talent intelligence, workforce planning, and digital HR transformation to create a global marketplace where companies can find the best Analytics talent in one place...and practitioners can find the best flexible opportunities where they can make an impact.

SemperVirens Venture Capital 

I provide feedback on potential fund investments, and coaching and strategic guidance to founders of workplace tech companies in the SemperVirens portfolio.

SemperVirens is an early-stage venture capital fund with over $150 million under management, investing in technology transforming healthcare, work, and financial wellness. The fund has a portfolio of more than 50 industry-defining technology companies and an invite-only Venture Advisor group of 70 senior HR leaders of public companies. SemperVirens is committed to making meaningful connections amongst all stakeholders on a mission to build a better future of work.

HR Venture Advisor

The Josh Bersin Company

• Write, advise and teach about the impact of people analytics & technologies on employee and business performance.
• Facilitate “The Big Reset” initiative, a platform for 350+ HR leaders to discuss how their organizations are reinventing themselves post-pandemic, and what this means for the future of work and HR. 
• Led 5-week sprints on the Future of Work Design, People Insights & Ethics, HR Technology Excellence, Employee Retention, and Reimagining Skills through Talent Intelligence.

Senior Faculty, Josh Bersin Academy

Uber

• Redesigned and led Uber’s People Analytics function, serving on the global People Leadership Team and reporting to the Chief People Officer.  I supported a talented team of analysts, data scientists, researchers, and product managers with a shared mission of enabling our employees and business to thrive by providing actionable insights, products, and services.
• Served as the HR delegate on Uber’s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Council.  Implemented new people data infrastructure and a robust data privacy & governance framework to secure employee/candidate information and speed decision-making.
• Led the team to accomplish major achievements that improved employee experience and business performance, including:  Launched a real-time people dashboard with on-demand insights to over 1,000 business leaders; Redesigned Uber’s annual employee survey into a “Continuous Listening” process to continuously improve our employee experience (directly informing Uber’s COVID response and hybrid work policy); Enabled the business with D&I insights and scenario planning powered by global self-ID; Built organizational network analytics (ONA) capability, clearly showing the drivers of employee productivity and retention.

Global Head of People Analytics

McKesson

•	Led global Workforce Planning & Analytics team at McKesson, a Fortune 10 company with annual revenues exceeding $200 B.  The team provides actionable workforce insights to senior executives, HR and business leaders, functional partners, employees and external stakeholders.
•	Designed and launched company's first enterprise-wide workforce planning system, a tech-enabled process that clearly forecasts headcount, hiring and budget targets based on business demand, attrition and external labor market data.
•	Provided data-led strategy, operations and analytical support for major culture change, D&I, talent acquisition and leadership development initiatives.  
•	Responsible for analytics consulting, the development and rollout of consolidated people analytics dashboards & technology, employee surveys, and network analysis.

VP, Talent Management Operations

Chevron

• Led enterprise-wide Talent Analytics team, leveraging workforce data to inform and support Chevron's business strategies.  The team integrated people, financial, and operational data to provide insights about the company's global workforce.
• Created global Center of Expertise (CoE) for Talent Analytics to establish "single source of truth" for enterprise workforce data, meaningfully improving productivity while reducing operating costs.
• Designed and managed Strategic Workforce Planning process to forecast staffing and capability needs to deliver long-term business plan.  
• Developed the "Talent Analytics Community of Practice" to build Chevron's global capability in talent analytics.  Established learning framework, structured curriculum, and monthly best-practice webinars.
• Manage enterprise-wide employee surveys.  Redesigned global survey to streamline process, deliver results more quickly, and link to business outcomes.  Established pulse survey approach to deliver more frequent and actionable employee insights.

Manager -- Planning, Analytics & Reporting

Equifax

•   Designed and marketed new workforce planning & analytics products for eThority Analytics, a cloud platform integrating data from multiple sources to provide workforce and business insights. 
•   Developed the ACA Management Platform (Human Resources Executive "Top HR Product of 2013") that enables companies to plan benefits approaches for their employees.
•   Managed sales for eThority Analytics, responsible for Top 100 key accounts.

Senior Practice Director, Workforce Planning & Analytics

Citrix Systems

•   Created and managed the global HR Analytics function, combining workforce and financial data to reveal business insights and inform strategic decision-making.
•   Developed human capital KPIs, on-demand reports, interactive dashboards, forecasting, and scenario modeling.
•   Led redesign and deployment of global Employee Engagement survey for over 6,000 employees in 30 countries.

Director, HR Analytics

Corporate Executive Board

•   Launched the HR Leadership Academy, an executive education program that develops the business skills of high-performing HR Business Partners. 
•   Led a team of instructors to create content and lead participants in discussion and training exercises to build critical skills.
•   Grew Academy with expansion across North America, Europe and Australia.

Senior Director, CEB Academies

•   Advised senior executives on how to manage their workforce and develop people strategies to achieve business objectives and increase profitability.
•   Led over 700 briefings on human capital strategy for business leaders in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa.

Senior Director, Corporate Leadership Council

•  Managed Executive Advisory services for Fortune 100 companies.  Supported Member Relations and Sales teams to ensure exceptional customer experience, and that our teaching enterprise and spirit of generosity extended to existing and prospective members throughout the world

Director

I am a globally recognized HR executive, thought leader, and speaker on employee experience and the future of work.  As a trusted advisor to some of the world's most progressive HR and business leaders, I focus on improving employee engagement, well-being, and productivity through more data-driven talent management strategies.  With deep expertise in people technology & analytics, I have transformed how Fortune 100 companies use people data to inform business decisions and deliver value.

I received the Bersin by Deloitte What Works Award for Transforming HR and the Human Resources Executive Top HR Product of the Year.  My writing appeared in Harvard Business Review, People + Strategy, The Wall Street Journal, and various other books, articles, and podcasts.  And I have been honored to speak about the future of work and data-driven talent strategy at over 1,000 events in 35 countries.

My journey has taken me around the world, learning from and advising Fortune 500 companies on 6 continents.  As an entrepreneur, I have launched new businesses in executive education and software.  Transitioning from advisor to practitioner, I've been privileged to serve on the HR leadership teams and lead the People Analytics and Strategic Workforce Planning functions at global corporations (including two of the Fortune 10).

Most recently, I founded People Analytics Partners, a global marketplace that connects companies with a curated group of world-class experts in people analytics & technology for fractional work.  Our marketplace rapidly expanded to over 100 experts in 14 countries, providing critical data-driven support to help HR and executive teams achieve their goals.

Feel free to contact me for advice, coaching or to enquire about a speaking engagement.

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