Chief People Officer of Harrison.ai & Founder of Kindred People


Tara Nguyen is Chief People Officer at Harrison.ai, a medtech company building AI-powered diagnostic support used in healthcare facilities worldwide. Harrison.ai operates at the intersection of clinical AI and global scale and Tara leads the people strategy that makes that growth executable. She plays a key role in shaping organisational capability, leadership effectiveness and global workforce strategy during a period of rapid growth and innovation and has led the organisation through significant transformation and change. Alongside her CPO role, Tara is an entrepeneur and the founder of Kindred, an advisory practice focused on people-centred transformation.
She is passionate about helping founders and leaders build high-performing, inclusive organisations that enable both commercial success and lasting impact.
Roles are changing faster than most workforce plans can keep up with. The World Economic Forum just named job design and upskilling the top priority for people leaders this year, and it's easy to see why.
As AI automates and streamlines more of the day-to-day, it's forcing a harder question:
What work is actually worth doing now, and who (or what) should be doing it?
People leaders are redesigning roles around that split, building AI literacy for the tasks AI leads, and doubling down on the human skills it can't replicate for the rest.
In this session, three Chief People Officers from fast-scaling tech companies share what this shift actually looks like inside their organisations, and how they're preparing their people for it.
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