Erica Perry Briody is a leader in human capital; a builder of talent and global recruitment teams, specializing in hyper-growth organizations. She understands the challenges of being an agile manager attuned to the ambiguity and constant change of today’s business environment. Her keen intuition for building and managing culturally diverse teams has been developed through working and living across the globe – including time in the U.S; Europe; Mexico; the UK; ME; India; Hong Kong and China. She is a promoter of inclusion in the workplace, an MBA graduate who speaks multiple languages, is Six Sigma Certified, and holds both U.S. and British passports. Her extensive experience coaching and leading corporate teams has created a broad knowledge base for advising and working with executives taking on challenges of new industries or cultures. As a culture catalyst, she uses her expertise to build leadership teams that will model, inspire, and cultivate the desired company values. She also imparts strategies that build strong pipelines for future hiring needs. Erica has worked in Global Talent Acquisition roles at GE, Novartis, Quintiles, OYO and is currently the Global Senior Vice President for Talent at REEF Technology. She has been nominated by the HR industry and awarded the ‘HRO Superstar' Award for Branding innovation; The Novartis ‘Achieve Breakthrough’ award; GE’s Leadership award; OYO’s Global Citizenship award; and was recently named one of the top Women HR Leaders in Technology.
Shifting economic landscapes ofter result in organizations laying off employees in response to the challenges in the market, whether that is Covid related, global competition or advancements in technology. Erica believes, layoffs are a short term gain and rarely help leadership achieve their goals. Cost savings are over-shadowed by reputational risk, negative publicity, loss of employee expertise, less discretionary effort lowering innovation which then directly impacts profits.
During this economic downturn, Erica Briody, Former SVP, Global Talent Acquisition and Leadership Hiring at REEF will share how can we handle the changing workforce requirements to ensure that if layoffs happen, the process feels fair and that the impacted employees have a cushioned landing with focus on: