Previous meetings held by Standard Chartered Bank

Digitalisation and AI are top of many HR Leaders’ agendas, but the meaning and execution of digitalisation and AI can differ greatly between organisations. ChapmanCG gathered intel from a number of big players at an HR networking event to explore how HR leaders and their teams have introduced technology within their businesses, and where it is adding most value, both internally and externally.

ChapmanCG and HR leaders from various industries recently teamed up in New York City to host a series of meetings to discuss Innovations in Employee Engagement. The events were hosted by Michelle Blieberg — Senior Vice President, Talent Management & Corporate Human Resources at Time Warner, Christine Sheehy — Managing Director, Regional Head, HR and Talent & Learning, Europe & Americas at Standard Chartered Bank, Tom Wilson — Head, Americas Talent Acquisition at Standard Chartered Bank Stuart Robertson – Vice President HR Global Corporate Groups at Coach, Inc., and Peter Warwick — Chief People Officer at Thomson Reuters. More than…

In mid-February 2016, ChapmanCG held a series of meetings in Seoul for our community of HR and Talent Leaders in Korea. We were kindly hosted by Standard Chartered Bank and Energizer, and attendees at the meeting came from a wide array of industries. Among the groups were senior HR leaders from companies such as Amazon, BNY Mellon, British American Tobacco, Delphi, Doosan, eBay, Ecolab, Estee Lauder, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Philips, RB and Schneider Electric. The common theme of both meetings was the issue of managing big company changes in the context of Korea. For many HR leaders the subject…

ChapmanCG recently hosted six events in both Beijing and Shanghai, to discuss the importance of strategic workforce planning in a market like China’s. Each session had a slightly different angle on this broad and thought provoking topic. Hosted at Danone, DuPont, IBM, Jones Lang LaSalle, Pfizer and Standard Chartered Bank, the events provided an insight into how some of these ‘best in class’ companies are approaching their talent strategies for the future. There were some interesting presentations from a range of speakers including Kamali Rajesh, APAC Head of Talent at Ford Motor Company, who is based in Shanghai. She talked…

Matthew Chapman, CEO of The Chapman Consulting Group, recently chaired our Global HR Leader meetings in New York, London and Zurich in September 2013. These Global HR Leaders groups, held twice a year, bring together some of the most senior HR leaders in the world who, as part of their global remit, have a large focus on emerging and high growth markets. Our September 2013 series was hosted in New York at Coach, Standard Chartered, Thomson Reuters, Millward Brown and Credit Suisse; Amcor and Zurich in Zurich; and McGraw-Hill and Bird & Bird in London. A hot topic of discussion…

The Chapman Consulting Group (ChapmanCG) co-hosted Dr David Rock, Director of the NeuroLeadership Institute, at Standard Chartered Bank’s Learning Centre in Singapore on Thursday, July 4. The session was chaired by Matthew Chapman, CEO of ChapmanCG. Henri Parmentier, an Associate in the Singapore ChapmanCG Team was also present. David heads up a global initiative bringing neuroscientists and leadership experts together to build a new science for leadership development. He co-edits the NeuroLeadership Journal and heads up an annual global summit. David is the author of the business best-seller ‘Your Brain at Work’ (HarperBusiness, 2009) and he blogs for the Harvard…

The Chapman Consulting Group spent a busy week with HR Leaders in three locations in India; Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore this week. Our Half-Yearly HR Briefing Series for Quarter One and Two for India and Asia Pacific was hosted at the premises of many prominent companies such as Convergys, Philips, Nielsen, Coca-Cola, Shell, Credit Suisse, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Cisco, General Motors and Standard Chartered Bank. During this week-long series of HR Briefings with more than 300 HR Leaders across India, we noted the following trends: Increasingly, India is being split off from Asia Pacific or the Middle East…

The latest quarter one Financial Services HR Leader session in Hong Kong was hosted by Standard Chartered Bank today. It was a lively gathering as the group reflected on the end of 2011 and how the New Year was shaping up. Over 20 APAC HR Heads gathered for lunch, with representatives attending from BNP Paribas, ANZ, UBS, Nomura, Standard Bank, Morgan Stanley, AXA, BlackRock and many more. Overall the group reflected that the focus on consolidation and transformation had continued into 2012. Like every year at this time, bonus payments and reporting dominated the discussion, surprisingly some leaders noted lower…

Some of the region’s highest potential mid and senior-level talent met for an afternoon of discussions at Standard Chartered Bank to debate the latest APAC Compensation & Benefits trends. Representatives from companies including Visa, Standard Chartered Bank, JP Morgan, Dell, Nokia, Alstom, Barclays Capital and many others were in attendance. The group engaged in a lively discussion on areas including hot locations in the region for C&B activity, package formulation, mobility and the C&B profession itself. Interesting observations from the discussion included the following : Movement between companies has slowed down in Singapore and Hong Kong in 2011 in comparison…

The Chapman Consulting Group was in Shanghai last week to co-host a lively presentation with Organisation Solutions on “How does Leadership Matter?” The session was designed to help senior HR Leaders in China connect current research with experience on people and organisation practice. The goal was to help HR Leaders encourage stronger business leadership in their companies and also, from a personal perspective, to help them become better HR Leaders and to manage their own HR teams. The presentation, which was hosted at Standard Chartered Bank’s China headquarters, was attended by 14 China Heads of Talent and Heads of HR…