Franny Elson Levene
Senior Director & Head of Global People Growth, Learning & Development Swedish Orphan Biovitrum
Franny Levene is the Senior Director and Head of Global People Growth at Sobi, where she leads worldwide learning, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness initiatives. A recognized Learning & Organizational Development champion and 2022 HBA Luminary, Franny brings deep expertise from across the life sciences and technology sectors, shaping high‑impact L&D strategies at companies including Sobi, Sage Therapeutics, and Bullhorn. With a background spanning epidemiology, team effectiveness, and talent development, she is known for building scalable learning ecosystems that accelerate growth, strengthen culture, and elevate leadership at every level.
Seminars
- How can a global HR function create impact without authority, budget, or direct control, while supporting affiliates with vastly different needs, priorities, and capabilities?
- Discover how Swedish Orphan Biovitrum has re-energized talent management by defining clear global‑versus‑local lanes, centralizing frameworks, standards, and platforms while empowering affiliates to own execution and program design
- Learn how this model has driven greater agility and ROI by reducing duplication, enabling faster local decision-making, scaling what works (and stopping what doesn’t), and maximizing limited global resources through reusable content, shared infrastructure, and experimentation-led learning
This interactive Q&A examines the tension at the heart of enterprise L&D design: how to achieve scale and consistency without losing the local relevance that makes learning land. Drawing on both the centralization journey and the global-local operating model approaches explored in the Discover sessions, participants will examine how AI, governance, and platform decisions interact to determine whether L&D becomes a genuine enterprise growth engine or a well-intended but underutilized function.
- Where does the balance between central standardization and local autonomy typically break down, and how do you reset it?
- How do you build AI-enabled learning capabilities in a large organization without creating new silos?
- What governance structures enable both enterprise consistency and affiliate responsiveness?
- How do you calculate and communicate the ROI of L&D investment in language that CFOs and business leaders find credible?
