David Fairhurst Chccipd

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ABOUT DAVID FAIRHURST CHCCIPD

With over 30 years’ corporate experience in hospitality, retail pharmaceuticals, FMCG, distribution and aerospace, David is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading HR practitioners and is a respected thought leader, business communicator, and government advisor. An independent consultant and strategic advisor since 2020, David was previously the Executive Vice President, Global Chief People Officer at McDonald’s Corporation – one of the world’s largest HR and Training positions with strategic oversight of almost two million employees in over 120 countries. David is credited as one of the key leaders in delivering the company’s historic business turnaround, which saw the firm’s market capitalization rise from $93bn to$147bn in just 4 years. In doing so, he is one of very few HR leaders to have had the opportunity to deliver a truly global Cultural Transformation program at pace and at scale. A proven ‘disrupter’, David combines hard data and personal intuition to challenge established thinking and ways of working. In 2014, he shared his prediction in the Financial Times, that within a decade, major global economies would be facing labor shortages on a scale which would impact business growth – a ‘workforce cliff’ (https://on.ft.com/43NTZvd). This disruptive insight afforded progressive employers the time to prepare for what became a reality.