Antoinette Irvine, Vice President HR Global Supply Chain at Unilever joins Maria Villablanca to discuss whether pre-pandemic management styles are bound to go extinct, how Unilever adapted its upskilling initiatives when working from home became a necessity and how they increased their workforce well-being scores by 10%. With a global shortage of supply chain talent and a surge in vacancies, leaders are under pressure to update their management styles to retain top talent. In this episode, we find out the key skills managers require to retain talent while boosting productivity and effectiveness for greater ROI.
 
About the Speaker
Antoinette Irvine, Vice President HR Global Supply Chain is a member of Unilever’s global supply chain leadership executive team with responsibility for all HR-related strategic agenda for supply chain including the delivery of the HR Strategy to support the business, remuneration, talent management, change management programs, learning and development, building the desired culture, IR/ER, and diversity and inclusion. Antoinette is a champion of diversity and inclusion and has successfully shifted gender transformation from 19-42% at management levels in last 4 years. Recognizing the power of people in transformation, Antoinette leads Unilever’s global manufacturing excellence program for the People Development pillar with a membership of 250 owned Unilever manufacturing sites globally.