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Laura Hume, PhD

Partner, Talent Development, Talent Transformation, IBM

Laura has spent her 25+ year career developing talent programs that solve challenging business issues so that companies can drive profitable, sustainable growth. During her time in professional services, she has had both internal and client-facing roles. She has consulted cross-sector with global fortune 500 companies. Some of her favorite projects include: creating an onboarding program impacting 80,000 new hires per year; developing a configurable digital skills academy to modernize the workforce of a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical company; creating an enterprise curriculum for a large healthcare organization; developing an end-to-end talent model for a large Utilities company that included role profiles, competency and skill assessment, performance management, coaching, training, and staffing; and, developing recruiting, onboarding, staffing, and training solutions to quickly scale a State Department of Public Health as they quickly responded to the Covid pandemic by hiring 2,000 contact tracers, case investigators, and supervisors.

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