050: Adrian Stevens - Don't Wait to Raise Your Hand

Most recently Vice President of Talent Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Adrian embraced the responsibility for evolving HPE’s talent architecture into a cohesive and effective ecosystem that supported both team member and business growth. Core areas of responsibility encompassed Succession Planning, Strategic Skills, Assessment, Onboarding, Role Transitions and Careers. Since the launch of HPE in 2015, Adrian facilitated the development of HPE’s leadership model, digital learning transformation and people strategy. Prior to the launch of HPE, Adrian led the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Learning & Development separation management office, contributing to one of the largest and fastest corporate separations to-date and the successful stand up of learning ecosystems for both HPE and HP Inc. Before pursuing a passion for people and a move to lead Talent Development teams and organizations, Adrian led business and go-to-market teams covering sales, marketing, and business operations within HP’s South Pacific Enterprise, SMB & Consumer organizations. More broadly, Adrian has contributed to the World Economic Forum’s Systems initiative focused on the Future of Education, Gender and Work, the WEF IT Consortium and the publication of the Skillset Principles for Corporate Leaders at Davos in 2018. While residing in San Francisco’s bay area, Adrian has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, contributing to his belief in the strength of diversity across global organizations, communities, and government. On This Episode:Adrian talks about how his identity was shaped through living in different areas.Hear how Adrian’s passion for people influenced his career.Get Adrian’s formula for success as a leader.Denis and Adrian discuss overcoming imposter syndrome.Find out how to embrace transformation.Adrian and Denis reflect on 9/11.Key Takeaways:Don’t wait to lead. Raise your hand and make a broader difference.Ensure that your people know that you care.To remain static is to lose ground.Tweetable Quotes:Validation is the greatest gift you can give someone.People will only care how much you know when they know how much you care.Adrian Stevenshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianstevens8/Denis Gianoutsos:[email protected]