Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams

Senior Director Operations Talent Strategy and Employee Experience Dow

Lisa’s career motto is to learn, deliver, optimize, innovate, teach, and repeat. She is an avid practitioner and lifelong student of strategy and organization effectiveness, knowing when it is followed by robust implementation driven by client/customer needs will yield valuable and sustainable results. Lisa is a connector, motivator, solutionist, nurturer, challenger, and ambassador. She is a champion for people and believes inclusion and diversity will unlock the next wave of employee elevation and innovation in our ever-changing global society. Lisa believes investing in people will always reap more benefit than you sow and often with results you never considered possible.

Lisa has been fortunate to lead global teams in every geography, businesses, and functions in Dow and in personal business ventures. She has saved millions of dollars in various engineering, supply chain, and purchasing improvement projects.

In Lisa’s 20-year career, development has been centered in networking. She was fortunate to learn early in my career the power of mutually beneficial networking, and invest in my network as a continuous part of my growth and development. That personal investment has given Lisa a wealth of knowledge, continuous learning, mature approach to work and opportunity, mastering the art of leveraging information, and a tapestry of company and industry colleagues who contribute to her knowledge ecosystem.

Lisa respects character and resilience built from facing and overcoming challenge and adversity, and finding the finesse to maneuver and win in competitive environments.

Opinions are her own.

Main Conference Day 1 - February 24, 2026

12:20 PM Lunch and Learn: Reimagining Talent Strategy with AI: Building a Resilient Workforce

In today’s volatile landscape, traditional workforce planning is no longer enough. Lisa shares how Dow is rethinking talent strategy from within operations, not HR, by identifying the urgent need for AI-powered models that can forecast, modernize, and redeploy talent across global sites. This session will explore how to build a resilient, data-informed talent strategy that meets the demands of a rapidly evolving marketplace.

  • Understand why legacy job structures and outdated data systems are no longer fit for purpose and how AI can help organizations forecast talent gaps, model workforce scenarios, and make smarter, faster decisions in times of disruption
  • Explore how Dow is laying the groundwork for transformation by capturing raw skills data from 22,000 employees, creating a foundation for modernizing roles, identifying risk areas and targeting upskilling efforts with efficiency
  • Analyze how AI models could help visualize workforce dynamics across geographies, identifying where critical skills are lacking and where surplus talent could be redeployed enabling smarter, more agile workforce planning
  • Gain insight into why Lisa is calling for industry-wide collaboration, encouraging peers and competitors alike to articulate shared needs so that technology providers can build scalable, cross-sector solutions that benefit the entire ecosystem 

Limited to 25 places, book your spot now! 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Lisa.

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