How SAP Is Preparing Its People for AI: 5 Takeaways for HR
How is SAP preparing its workforce for AI? Gina Vargiu-Breuer joins Chris Rainey to discuss talent development, skills-based hiring, leadership and the changing relationship between people and AI agents.
Gina is Chief People Officer and Labor Director, and a Member of the Executive Board at SAP. An organisational psychologist who previously led HR at Siemens Energy, she explains how SAP is connecting employee development to its wider business transformation.
The conversation explores SAP’s Talent Engine, its skills work with more than 200 role owners across the business, and why Gina wants leaders to focus on business outcomes rather than the number of AI agents they build.
Gina also shares what she has learned about leading her own team, making room for challenge and bringing the people side of transformation in earlier.
IN THIS EPISODE
→ Connecting talent development across the employee lifecycle
→ Making talent strategy a shared executive responsibility
→ Building a skills approach that informs hiring and development
→ Defining human-led, agent-led and AI-assisted work
→ Developing the leadership behaviours needed for continuous change
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Gina Vargiu-Breuer, Chief People Officer and Labor Director, and Member of the Executive Board at SAP.