Speaker’s Profile

Dr. Bradley W. Hall
Former Senior Advisor to the CHRO
Huawei Technologies
Dr Brad Hall is the former Senior Advisor to Huawei’s Chief HR Officer and Huawei’s Senior HR Professional. His specialty is improving the overseas performance of global companies and their leaders.
Before Huawei, he was in charge of leadership and organisation effectiveness for 18 countries at IBM Asia Pacific (one third of IBM’s total global business). For more than a decade, IBM has been ranked within the top five companies globally by “Best Companies for Leaders”.
During his time at IBM, he was assigned as a special advisor to the CEO of Lenovo after it purchased IBM Personal Computer. This was China’s first large-scale acquisition of a western company. At Lenovo, he designed the new organisation structure and the new corporate culture to transform Lenovo into a global company. Lenovo became China’s gold standard for global management.
Before IBM, he was head of HR and training for AT&T Global Services. During his tenure, PricewaterhouseCoopers ranked his organisation second in the world for HR innovation. AT&T assigned him to Japan Telecom headquarters in Tokyo as the first-ever non-Japanese employee.
Hall published The New Human Capital Strategy(2009) and has written more than 80 articles on management innovation. For five years, he was an instructor for Duke University Corporate Education.
He earned his PhD in industrial-organisational psychology with a focus on the overseas management practices of Japanese companies. He also speaks Japanese.
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