AI adoption · Leadership · Culture
I help CHROs and executive teams connect people, strategy, and technology—so the investment changes how work gets done.
Three-time Head of HR. Author. Enterprise transformation leader.
Leadership experience
inside global businesses
Work with Larry
Whether you’re leading transformation, convening a room, or building HR technology, bring the decision you need to move forward.
For CHROs & executive teams
Make the next important decision with a clear view of the people, technology, and work it will change.
For conferences & leadership events
Give your audience a practical way to lead change, drawn from the experience of building it inside global companies.
For HR technology companies
Connect your product and message to the decisions, constraints, and adoption challenges your customers actually face.
The conviction behind the work
Leadership transforms culture
before technology scales it.
People need a reason to change—and the conditions to make it stick.
A connected approach
Your strategy, leadership habits, processes, and technology should reinforce each other. The Golden Thread makes those connections explicit.
Start with a business outcome. Identify the behavior that must change. Then put ownership, tools, and evidence behind it.
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Four levels of activation
Give people the clarity, confidence, and capability to work differently.
Equip managers to turn conversation and insight into action.
Connect priorities, ownership, and decisions across the business.
Build the skills and opportunities that keep people and the business growing.
Progress needs evidence. Separate what’s planned from what people can demonstrate in their everyday work.
Experience behind the advice
I’m Larry McAlister, founder of The Corporate Humanist Consultancy and a three-time Head of HR. I work with leaders on the human side of technology and transformation.
At NetApp, I led Global Talent during the company’s move toward cloud. At Equinix, I helped connect culture and talent strategy through rapid growth. At Nutanix, I built the HR enterprise AI strategy and governance framework.
More about my experience (opens in a new tab)From the work · NetApp
The Thrive ecosystem connected performance conversations, coaching, learning, and internal mobility around a shared approach to growth.
of employees tried Mosaic, NetApp’s internal talent marketplace, in its first month.
Launch participation reported by Fuel50 in 2021.
The book
A Field Guide to Building a Human-Centered, Tech-Enabled Work Culture
Go inside NetApp’s transformation—from rebuilding the manager–employee relationship to connecting talent and technology. A practical field guide for leaders ready to change how their organizations work.
With a foreword by George Kurian.
Find the book on Amazon (opens in a new tab)Ideas you can put to work
Strategy
Execution. Then technology. Then growth. Give the tools something useful to accelerate.
Read on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Enablement
Look beyond training and usage to the habits, workflows, and decisions that actually change.
Read on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Leadership
Make the relationship between strategy, conversations, systems, and behavior clear to everyone.
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Tell me what you’re working toward and where progress is getting stuck. We can start there.
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