Best of 2023: The Evolving Employee Experience

In 2023, expert guests joined the Gartner Talent Angle to 
share their advice about key drivers of employee engagement,
retention and performance: flexible work, wellbeing and internal
mobility. Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom discusses the impact
of flexible work on employee productivity and on organizations’
bottom lines. Siemens chief people and sustainability officer
Judith Wiese shares how Siemens commits to well-being to drive
talent outcomes and to position the organization for sustainable
success. Author Helen Tupper makes the case for nonlinear career
paths to deliver on the promise of internal mobility by giving
employees relevant and engaging opportunities.


 


Nicholas Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at
Stanford University. Nick’s research focuses on working from
home, management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked
at the U.K. Treasury, McKinsey & Company and the IFS. He has
a BA from Cambridge, an MPhil from Oxford, and a PhD from
University College London. Nick is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of the Guggenheim
and Sloan Fellowships, the Frisch Medal and a National Science
Foundation Career Award. He was elected to Bloomberg50 for his
advice on working from home.


 


Judith Wiese has been a member of the Managing Board of Siemens
since 1 October 2020. She is the chief people and sustainability
officer as well as labor director for Siemens. In addition,
Judith is responsible for global business services (GBS) at
Siemens. Judith has more than two decades of international
experience in various HR fields. From 2017 to 2020, she was chief
human resources officer at DSM, a Dutch company specializing in
health, nutrition and sustainable living. Before that, she worked
for the U.S. food company Mars, most recently as head of people
and organization.


 


Helen Tupper is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, a company
with an ambition to make careers better for everyone. Together
with her business partner Sarah Ellis, she is the author of two
Sunday Times bestsellers: “The Squiggly Career” and “You Coach
You.” Their “Squiggly Careers” podcast is the U.K.’s No. 1
careers podcast, and their TEDx talk “The Best Career Path Isn’t
Always a Straight Line” has over 1.5 million downloads. Helen
also works as a trustee for Working Families, a U.K. charity with
a mission to support families and caregivers with their work and
life commitments. Prior to Amazing If, she held leadership roles
for Microsoft, Virgin and BP and was awarded The Financial Times
and 30% Club’s Women in Leadership MBA Scholarship. She is mum to
Henry and Madeleine and lives with her husband in
Buckinghamshire. You can find her on Instagram @amazingif.