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 20,000‑employee decentralized organization build a clearer, more consistent and modern employee experience to address career‑development‑driven attrition?
- Learn how Charles River Laboratories is piloting an AI based talent intelligence platform with 3,000 employees to bring transparency and clarity to career paths, surface internal opportunities that are personalized, and align skills across the business using them initially in ways to drive better connection, development and upskilling
- With the pilot explicitly aiming to boost employee engagement, retention, belonging and internal mobility discover how this early phase is designed to also lay the groundwork for modernizing the employee experience and building an enterprise‑wide skills ecosystem.
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?
