141 - Understanding the EX across 140k employees: Johanna Söderström (EVP, Chief People Officer, Tyson Foods)

Johanna Söderström, EVP & Chief People Officer at Tyson Foods, joined us on The Modern People Leader.   We talked about how she’s gotten a better understanding of the EX across Tyson’s 140k employees, how they've trained up the executive team on digitalization and building a learning organization, and how her non HR experience has shaped her approach as an HR leader. ---- This episode was brought to you by Pyn. Get access to their FREE Employee Journey Designer here. ---- (3:33) Good news stories (9:45) Johanna’s story: Born in Helsinki —> having “Sisu” —> handball champion —> Ericsson —> finance & marketing experience —> pivot to HR —> moving to Germany for Dow Chemical —> using the internet for recruiting —> Today (22:20) 90k of Tyson Food’s 140k employees are frontline employees (24:45) Why we should be jealous she gets to work at Tyson Foods (27:31) Understanding the different cohorts of employees that work at Tyson  (31:08) Running Tyson Food’s first ever engagement survey (35:05) More firsts at Tyson Foods (38:38) Johanna loves to create, build, & transform (40:20) The momentum that has built since beginning their transformation (43:00) HR needs to be hungrier for new skills (49:17) Her thoughts on what’s to come with AI (51:13) Tyson brought in an external expert to train the executive team on Digitalization and becoming a Learning Organization (54:13) How her non HR experience has helped shape her approach as an HR leader (58:00) Where future people leaders should be investing time to develop themselves (1:01:37) The level of stress in society (1:04:24) Rapid Fire Questions ---- 📬 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get key learnings & career advice from Modern People Leaders 💡 Follow The Modern People Leader on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Daniel Huerta on LinkedIn 😊 Follow Stephen Huerta on LinkedIn