Adam Lai

Senior Talent Development Manager @Standard BioTools

Lead global talent development strategy to elevate organizational performance, engagement, and growth across a biotech enterprise. Deliver cross-functional initiatives spanning performance management, leadership development, onboarding, learning, and internal communications.Key Accomplishments• Increased Workday adoption by enhancing user experience and analytics, achieving feature activation rates in the 80th percentile industry wide.• Streamlined onboarding by automating over 75% of the process and aligning cross-functional teams.• Contributed to two restructuring events with no residual legal issues.• Reduced turnover from 12% to 6% in the first half of 2025.• Built a values-based competency model to reinforce culture, performance, and behavior.• Integrated over 80% of the talent lifecycle (goals, reviews, succession, development) into Workday.• Launched values-based leadership program to strengthen culture and boost readiness.• Built compliance training roadmap, achieving 90%+ completion and improving audit readiness.• Led global capability-building with 90%+ participation, enhancing leadership pipeline.• Directed employee listening strategy, leveraging survey insights to guide priorities with 90%+ response rate.• Elevated internal communications—executive messaging, intranet, and events—driving 65%+ engagement in 2025.