Digital transformation has taken the forefront of boardroom agendas with global spending estimated to be as high as $454 billion on the latest tools and technology. With such high investments in digitization, there’s the quintessential question we need to answer in order to realize the ROI for these technology expenditures. And that is – how do we make sure that a diverse workforce, consisting of different generations of workers with different learning skills and needs adopt such technologies with the least amount of friction.

We asked this question to a prominent personality who has been in the HR and L&D space for 29 years. Someone who has worked in various senior-level positions in HR and L&D in companies like Apple, Gap, Microsoft, the latest being Tesla. We were super thrilled to have none other than Beth Loeb Davies, the former director of L&D, Tesla in the latest episode of our podcast – The Digital Adoption Show.

Beth has had quite the career path, starting off as a lawyer and then gradually moving into the HR and L&D field. She is a consultant, keynote speaker, and most recently has started her very own podcast –  Career Curves where she invites people who have had quite interesting career paths to talk about the challenges they faced, the decisions they had to make, and how they built solid careers and opportunities for themselves.

During our discussion with Beth, she talked quite at length about how companies should approach the delicate concept of digital transformation. She elaborated on the importance of putting people before technology, of discovering and innovating new methodologies to ensure seamless adoption of newer technologies.

For us, it was quite interesting to listen to Beth’s experience of being in the HR and L&D space over the years, her learnings, and how she mitigated the challenges that came her way.

Here’s the TL: DR version of our talk with Beth

1. The concept of ‘invisible’ learning and development and it’s significance in today’s rapidly changing workplace
2. The challenges with the introduction of new technologies and how larger enterprises have been streamlining digital adoption over the years.
3. The importance of embedding a culture of innovation within your workforce
4. How large enterprises like Tesla are shaping their training methodologies to suit different employee learning needs.