Tips for your Agile HR journey

Join us for an engaging meetup to explore how Mercedes Benz USA’s HR team has embraced Agile mindset and practices across the board. We’re thrilled to welcome Lars Minns, Chief HR Officer for Mercedes-Benz North America, a proud alumnus of our Agile HR Certified Practitioner program in 2021. Amidst the automotive industry’s push towards digitalisation, modularisation, and comprehensive R&D operational redesign, HR professionals face significant challenges. How do we adapt and concentrate on what’s crucial amidst such industry-wide transformations? Ensuring robust talent pipelines and the attraction and retention of the right talent are more critical than ever.

Lars and his team have been at the forefront of redefining HR’s role within this landscape, leveraging their Agile journey’s insights to enhance team upskilling, product delivery, and the establishment of a more adaptable, Agile HR governance model. Hosted by Riina Hellström, founder of the Agile HR Community, this informal meetup promises a wealth of practical stories, tips, and insights, fostering a rich learning environment for our Agile HR Community.

This session underscores the importance of Agile practices in navigating the complexities of today’s business environment, offering a unique opportunity to learn from those who have successfully integrated these principles into their HR strategies.

Lars N. Minns is currently the Chief HR Officer for Mercedes-Benz, North America with responsibility for the US and Canada serving the organisation since March 2015. He currently leads the organisation in designing, implementing, and executing HR strategies that directly align with the company’s strategic objectives for the Sales, Marketing, and Distribution of Passenger Cars, Vans and parts in the United States and Canada. Under his leadership, the organisation is undergoing one of the largest transformations in the automotive industry in its pursuit to be the most desired electric luxury brand in North America.