Home Depot’s Fernando Sanchez-Arias joins IQPC’s CTO Exchange

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The Home Depot will send its Chief People Officer to IQPC’s CTO Exchange set for March 2018.

Fernando Sanchez-Arias

Fernando Sanchez-Arias has almost 30 years of experience in global business and people strategy, leadership and talent development, organizational design and development, and cultural intelligence. He has been leading, speaking, training, coaching and building alliances in more than 70 countries. He currently is part of The Home Depot (#28 Fortune 500), acting as the Chief People Officer of Global Custom Commerce and HR Director of THD Marketing/Online.

Before joining the US retail leader, he worked as Corporate Director and Chief Learning Officer of LUKIVEN Energy & Business Group, an oil and gas, real estate, construction and corporate education group. He co-cofounded UCEN, the corporate university of this business group. His passion for continuous improvement helped him to start MEJORAR, an international research, learning and development center for leaders, organizations and communities.

Sanchez-Arias holds a Magna Cum Laude university degree in Business Administration, with a major in Organization & Methods, is a Certified Executive Coach by the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Newfield Consulting, and an International Training Fellow (No. 31) of the JCI University. He served as member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Talent Development - ATD (formerly ASTD) and was the 59th World President of Junior Chamber International (JCI). He was part of the Wharton School/Graduate School of Education Work-based Learning Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently in the dissertation block of the PennCLO Executive Doctoral Program. His lines of practice and research are: Global & Cross-cultural Business, People Strategy, Leadership Development, Organizational Learning, National & Organizational Cultures, Change & Innovation.

Sanchez-Arias is also a HR Exchange Network Advisory Board member.

IQPC’s CTO Exchange is scheduled for March 18-20 in Orlando, Florida.

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