Jason Wingard
Distinguished Scholar on the Future of Work | Senior Advisor, Harvard University | Former Dean, Columbia University | CLO, Goldman Sachs | Author of 4 Books
Beth Davies
Former Director of Learning & Development at Tesla | Founder of HR Reimagined | Ex-Apple & Microsoft Executive | Host of the Career Curves Podcast | IE Business School Professor
Beth Davies helped scale Tesla from a few hundred employees to tens of thousands as its Director of Learning & Development, after shaping talent at Apple and Microsoft. Now founder of HR Reimagined, a podcast host, and an IE Business School professor, she knows what it takes to build culture and grow people through explosive change. Audiences leave with practical, field-tested strategies to hire, train, and retain great talent, even on a small budget.
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Beth Davies biography
HR speaker Beth Davies has spent more than twenty-five years building the cultures and training systems behind some of the world’s most innovative companies, including Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, and Gap. Best known as Tesla’s former Director of Learning & Development, she helped the electric-car maker scale its workforce from hundreds to tens of thousands of employees without losing the strategy, priorities, and values that held the company together. She now shares those hard-won lessons with organizations facing their own periods of rapid change.
Davies joined Tesla in 2011 to build manufacturing training from the ground up, preparing a brand-new, empty factory to begin producing cars in under a year. The plant opened on schedule with a fully trained staff, and that early success led her to take on ever-broader challenges: onboarding, sales and delivery training, and a company-wide learning infrastructure that she designed for a global workforce on a famously small budget.
Her career before Tesla was equally formative. She was part of the small team that designed and launched Microsoft’s retail strategy, serving as customer experience director responsible for training staff across all Microsoft stores worldwide. Earlier still, at Apple, she served as Director of Worldwide Talent Development and then Director of Retail Training, helping shape the people behind Apple’s fast-growing retail network during the company’s historic turnaround.
From Tesla to Reimagining How Companies Grow Talent
In 2017, Davies founded HR Reimagined, a consultancy that helps startups and high-growth companies build talent strategies aligned with their culture. She hosts the popular Career Curves podcast, advises EdTech startups, and is an adjunct professor in the Talent Development & Human Resources master’s program at IE Business School in Madrid, where students have twice voted her their best professor. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, which named her a distinguished alumna, and a law degree from Stanford Law School.
As a speaker, Beth Davies gives audiences a practical, behind-the-scenes look at what it truly takes to hire, develop, and retain great people when everything is moving fast. She draws on real stories from Tesla, Apple, and Microsoft to show leaders how to innovate in HR with limited resources, keep skills from going obsolete, and turn customers into loyal advocates. Attendees leave inspired and equipped with concrete ideas they can put to work immediately, whatever their industry or stage of growth.
Beth Davies Speaking Videos
Beth Davies - Applying Lessons from Tesla to the Future of Work
Beth Davis speaking keynote at the World HR Forum
Beth Davies Keynote Topics
Bold company strategy only succeeds when the people systems keep pace, and few environments test that harder than a startup in aggressive growth mode. Using real examples from Tesla and other high-growth companies, Beth Davies shows how HR leaders can innovate with little or no budget, and unpacks the mindset teams need to experiment, adopt new technology, and build learning programs that actually scale. A candid, practical session for anyone responsible for growing an organization's talent.
Technology now moves so quickly that many of today's skills will be obsolete within a few years. Hiring the brightest people is only the beginning; without continuous development, their expertise dates fast. Drawing on her years at Tesla, Apple, and Microsoft, Beth Davies offers practical, actionable strategies for developing modern learners and keeping a workforce's capabilities ahead of the curve using the tools available today.
There is a world of difference between customers who buy from you and customers who are sold to, and only one of them becomes a devoted fan. What creates that loyalty, and how do you build a culture that sustains it? Using stories from her time at Apple and Tesla, Beth Davies explores what turns ordinary transactions into lasting brand devotion, and shares strategies any organization can adapt to its own customers.
Every company is competing for the same great people, so how do you stand out and keep the talent you win? Beth Davies spent more than twenty-five years in senior HR roles at Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, and Gap, including six years at Tesla during a period of extraordinary growth, when hiring the wrong people or losing alignment on values could have derailed everything. In this session she shares the strategies her teams used to recruit the right people, get them productive quickly, and keep them engaged, leaving audiences ready to think and act in new ways.
Speaker topics
FAQs on Booking Beth Davies
Why Beth Davies?
Booking Beth Davies brings your audience rare, first-hand insight into how the world's most demanding companies build and scale their people. As Tesla's former Director of Learning & Development, and a former talent leader at Apple and Microsoft, she has solved the exact challenges most organizations face: hiring fast without lowering the bar, developing skills before they go stale, and holding culture together through explosive growth. She pairs that operating experience with the perspective of a consultant, professor, and podcast host, which makes her equally valuable to HR teams, executives, and founders. Practical, engaging, and grounded in real stories, she is an ideal choice for events on HR, talent, corporate culture, leadership, and customer experience. Aurum Speakers Bureau can help you check her availability and bring her to your event.
What is Beth Davies known for at Tesla?
Beth Davies was Tesla's Director of Learning & Development from 2011 to 2017. She built the company's manufacturing training from scratch, preparing a new factory to begin producing cars in under a year, then went on to design onboarding, sales and delivery training, and a company-wide learning infrastructure for a rapidly expanding global workforce. During her tenure Tesla grew from around 800 employees to roughly 33,000, making her work central to keeping that growth from outpacing the company's culture and capabilities.
What does Beth Davies do now?
Today Beth Davies is the founder of HR Reimagined, a consultancy that helps startups and high-growth companies build culture-aligned talent strategies. She also hosts the Career Curves podcast, advises EdTech startups, and teaches as an adjunct professor in the Talent Development & Human Resources master's program at IE Business School in Madrid, where students have twice voted her their best professor.
What topics does speaker Beth Davies cover in her keynotes?
Beth Davies speaks on innovative HR and learning strategies, scaling talent through hypergrowth, developing people so their skills stay current, building loyal customers, and winning the competition for great talent. Her sessions are especially valuable for audiences in HR, talent development, corporate culture, leadership, and customer experience, and she tailors her real-world examples from Tesla, Apple, and Microsoft to each event. To explore her availability and speaking fees, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
How to book Beth Davies as a keynote speaker?
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How much is Beth Davies speaking fee?
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Can I book Beth Davies for a virtual keynote?
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