The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce that Antoinette Irvine, Former CHRO, Unilever Global Operations at Unilever, will keynote our Transformational CHRO Assembly Europe September 9-10 at The Novotel Amsterdam City in Amsterdam.

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About Antoinette Irvine

Antoinette Irvine believes HR partnering has a pivotal role to play in helping businesses succeed by enabling the right talent, culture, and organizational strategy to support business vision and goals.

She is driven to empower those around her, enabling the leaders of tomorrow while fostering an inclusive and diverse culture through open, insightful, and high-trust dialogue. Having held numerous international roles across diverse geographies, Antoinette has developed a deep passion for understanding different cultures and teams, and for adapting HR strategies to drive the change organizations need.

She believes it is essential to assess the culture and capability of teams and leadership, alongside the business and commercial environment, to drive real, sustainable, and meaningful change. For Antoinette, people are the differentiating factor in future success.

Given the pace and urgency of transformation, Antoinette believes organizations too often overinvest in the “hardware” of business while underinvesting in the “software”—their people and the change management needed to succeed. She emphasizes the importance of balancing investment in technology and machinery with investment in developing the people and capabilities required for the future.