Alan Wild is Senior Advisor of Global Employee Relations at the CHRO Association and CEO of the consulting company Global Employee Relations Solutions. Alan's 40-year career in employee relations includes work in the corporate, consulting, and intergovernmental world.
Prior to returning to the CHRO Association, Alan was Employee Relations Director for Amazon in Europe and for major operations outside the US and Canada. At IBM, he was Vice President of Employee Relations and Engagement for the company's worldwide operations. As a consultant, Alan worked directly with more than 100 of the Fortune 500 companies in the United States and several major European, Australian, South African, and Japanese enterprises. His firm also worked on assignments for the United Nations, the International Labour Organization, the International Red Cross, the European Commission, and the Global Fund. Alan also worked for 10 years in the United Nations System, as HR Director and member of the Director General's senior executive team at the International Labour Organization in Geneva and as CHRO of the International Red Cross. He has represented the business community internationally at the OECD (BIAC), the ILO (as a Governing Body member), the United Nations (through the International Organization of Employers), and the European Union (through BusinessEurope).
Alan has managed significant human resource projects in more than 90 countries in East, West, and Central Europe, North, Central, and South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He has also spent time working in the US, the UK, and Switzerland.
He is also the author of several books covering employee relations and business advocacy, and has taught at major universities in Europe, the United States, and Japan. His podcast, "A Walk On The Wild Side - Managing Employee Relations in Global and Millennial Times," is regularly listened to by almost 10,000 employee relations professionals in 70 countries.
After years spent traveling the world with his wife Motoko and their two children, Alan has returned to his UK roots in Cotswolds, England.
