HBS Managing the Future of Work Siemens' Judith Wiese on engineering a global workforce transformation
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Mar 25, 2026 
Judith Wiese, Chief People and Sustainability Officer at Siemens, leads global HR and sustainability with a focus on lifelong learning. She discusses a skills-first learning stack, industrial AI tailored to domain-specific work, and using factories as testbeds. Topics include reskilling strategies, cross-country training differences, and aligning talent, leadership, and organization for human-AI collaboration.
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Skills First Learning Stack
- Siemens uses a skills-first learning stack with universal strategic skills like digitalization, AI, sustainability, and leadership.
- They require ~40 learning hours/year and spend ~$500M annually to keep 320,000 employees resilient and employable.
Use AI To Personalize Career Pathing
- Use AI to personalize learning and guide internal mobility by matching skills to roles and suggesting adjacent careers.
- Siemens' AI helper Zoe recommends relevant courses and can advise on next moves based on manager growth talks.
Industrial AI Needs Domain Rigor
- Siemens defines industrial AI as purpose-built, domain-specific AI for factories, grids, transport and healthcare that must not hallucinate.
- They train models on industrial simulation, design, and operations data combined with physics-based approaches.