Thursday 8 October 2026

Building HR While the Plane is Flying – Inside HR's Role in a Global Carve-out

Few transformations challenge HR as profoundly as a global carve-out. Creating a standalone organization while ensuring uninterrupted business operations requires HR to redesign structures, leadership, culture, systems, and ways of working—all at the same time. This session offers an inside look at the realities behind such a transformation. Based on first-hand experience from a global carve-out involving more than 4,300 employees across 50+ legal entities, it goes beyond the success stories to explore the critical decisions, unexpected obstacles, competing priorities, and defining moments that shaped the journey. Rather than presenting another transformation framework, this session offers a candid perspective on HR's role in building a new company—revealing not only what worked, but also where assumptions were challenged, priorities shifted, and difficult trade-offs had to be made.