Wendy Branche
Corporate Vice President - Global Talent Management Charles River Laboratories
Wendy Branche is a global HR and talent executive known for driving cultural transformation, leadership effectiveness, and enterprise-wide change. She currently serves as Corporate Vice President of Global Talent Management at Charles River Laboratories and is a Senior Faculty Advisor with Contemporary Leadership Advisors. With senior leadership roles at Visa, Tyco, and ITT Inc., she brings deep expertise in organizational development, talent management, and building high‑performance teams and cultures.
Seminars
- How can a large, complex life sciences organization strengthen its succession bench, modernize leadership expectations, and embed new ways of working during a CEO transition?
- Explore how Charles River Laboratories is partnering with McKinsey to design and implement a multi‑year transformation effort, leveraging an existing leadership model while enhancing the behaviors needed for the company’s next chapter
- Learn how this structured transformation approach is helping unify expectations, accelerate leadership capability, and ensure the organization is ready for the strategic shifts driven by a new CEO
This interactive Q&A examines the challenge of building leadership capability that genuinely changes how people lead, rather than producing well-attended programs with limited behavioral transfer.
Drawing on both the tiered development pathway and the enterprise transformation approach explored in the Discover sessions, participants will examine how to design development investments that deliver durable, measurable change.
- What design principles most reliably translate leadership development investment into genuine behavior change?
- How do you build a succession bench through development rather than just identification?
- What role does external methodology and partnership play versus internal capability in large-scale transformation?
- How do you sustain leadership development momentum through a CEO transition or major strategic shift?
