Sebastien Girard
Sebastien Girard joined Atrium Health in late 2018 as the Senior Vice President for Workforce Engagement.
Mr. Girard was previously with Parkland Health and Hospital System. He started in December 2015 with nearly 20 years of experience as an industry-recognized employment market professional. Sebastien leads his team to success and helps them navigate through a variety of circumstances, including but not limited to: operational challenges, rapid growth, emerging market needs, economic downturns and large acquisitions and restructuring efforts.
Mr. Girard previously served as Senior Vice President at Randstad USA, where he oversaw North East U.S. operations. Sebastien has a diverse background across P&L/operations management, people leadership, sales force management and defining and implementing talent acquisition models across industries (healthcare, manufacturing, food and beverage, finance and accounting, aerospace and more).
Prior to his work at Randstad USA, Sebastien served at Randstad Canada from 2001 to 2010 serving as Executive Vice President in 2009 and 2010. In his tenure, Sebastien spearheaded double digit organic growth year-over-year for seven straight years while maintaining a Canadian Top 50 Best Places to Work status (rank: 12) and Canadian Top 50 Best Places to Work for Women (rank: 5).
Sebastien holds a Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
More content by Sebastien Girard
Lessons from Pandemic – Improving Nursing Talent Acquisition
September 08 by Sebastien Girard
Healthcare has faced a talent acquisition challenge unlike any other industry during COVID-19. Atrium Health's Sebastien Girard details how the development of a Nursing Talent Acquisition function has...
Leadership Lessons Learned from a Pandemic
July 28 by Sebastien Girard
The pandemic has provided lessons to healthcare leaders like no other event in history. Atrium Health's Sebastien Girard takes a look at some of the HR lessons that stand out over the last four months...
Reshaping Healthcare – Now is the New Future of Work
May 12 by Sebastien Girard
The future of work has quickly become the present of work for healthcare. Sebastien Girard, Senior Vice President of Workforce Engagement lays out what the present and future looks like.
Talent Acquisition - From HR to an Experience Function
February 25 by Sebastien Girard
Talent Acquisition, like the broader HR function, is transforming. While HR becomes more strategic, Atrium Health’s Sebastien Girard says TA is embracing a marketing and experience mentality.
The Paradox of Unlearning to Optimize Performance
December 24 by Sebastien GirardIn this digital world where enterprises are adapting to not only significant changes in the market, but also experiencing a dramatic acceleration in those business deviations, the capacity to be proac...
The Changing Workforce Landscape
November 15 by Sebastien GirardThe digital revolution, the popularity of social media and the market entry of accessible artificial intelligence have dramatically changed the way we live, impacting every market in every industry, f...
Human Resources: Strategic, Predictive and Cost Effective
September 17 by Sebastien GirardHR is a necessary evil! HR is expendable! Just some of the statements HR professionals hear regularly. Yet they reflect the main struggle of HR executives and the transformation the industry is curren...
