Strategic HR Redefined: How Continuous Learning Empowers Global Teams in the AI Era

Title: Heather Oxley, Chief People Officer at GlobalLogic Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:00:00 GMT Duration: 00:14:38 Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/previ/episodes/Heather-Oxley--Chief-People-Officer-at-GlobalLogic-e33hjht GUID: 488b5279-e60b-4ec3-b59d-1ea92bae2e75 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Heather Oxley's undergraduate degrees are in chemistry and zoology. She has no formal HR training. And she is the Chief People Officer of GlobalLogic, a Hitachi subsidiary operating at scale across dozens of countries. Her career is a practical argument against the idea that there's a single right path into HR leadership — and a compelling one for following curiosity wherever it leads, even when you can't see where you're going.

What Heather found when she arrived at GlobalLogic was a function that needed to evolve — from back-office support to genuine strategic partnership. Her approach is direct: understand the financials, learn the business deeply enough to ask incisive questions, then build the HR infrastructure that allows people to do their best work at scale. For a company operating globally, that means building frameworks that are consistent enough to ensure fairness and flexible enough to honor real cultural differences. "You have to think about allowing people to make the right decision as close to people as possible" — decentralization as a design principle, not an afterthought.

Her work deploying AI at GlobalLogic is grounded and unsentimental: not AI for its own sake, but AI as an augmentation tool that frees human capacity for higher-value work. And her employee value proposition initiative is a rare example of an EVP that functions as both a brand campaign and an internal programming framework — built through genuine employee engagement, not boardroom wordsmithing.

• Non-traditional paths into HR leadership — what chemistry and curiosity teach you that HR programs don't
• Global HR with local customization — building frameworks that scale without flattening cultural nuance
• AI as augmentation, not replacement — where to deploy AI for productivity without creating anxiety
• Designing an EVP that works as both brand and internal program — the employee-centric process that makes it credible
• Becoming a true business partner — the financial acumen and trust-building required to earn a genuine seat at the table

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