Beth Davies

Beth Davies has spent more than 25 years working in senior leadership roles in innovative companies known around the world: Tesla, Apple, Microsoft and Gap. She is an expert in cultivating company culture, creating customer-centric organizations, developing leaders, expanding the workforce and innovating in human resources.

Most recently, Beth Davies spent six years at Tesla leading Learning and Development as the company grew from 600 to 33,000 employees. Her primary responsibility was to evangelize the company's culture to protect it from being diluted by rapid growth.

His responsibilities expanded to include new employee onboarding across the organization, sales and delivery training, leadership development, compliance training, ongoing employee development and learning infrastructure. Despite having a minimal budget and a small team, he developed and executed a comprehensive and innovative strategy that brought learning to people in all roles around the world.

Prior to Tesla, Beth Davies was part of a small team at Microsoft that conceived and developed their retail concept, growing the operation from 0 to 15 stores in 18 months. As Director of Customer Experience, she created customer service standards for the stores and all the training needed to launch the new retail operation.

Davies also played a key role in Apple's growth. In 2003, when the company was rising from the brink of death, Beth Davies joined the Human Resources team as head of leadership development. In 2005, she moved to the retail team and became head of training for retail stores worldwide.

The highlight of his time at Apple came in 2007, when the iPhone was first introduced to the world. Given the secretive nature of Apple, training could not be rolled out to retail stores until the last minute: he only had two hours before the doors opened and sales began to teach over 4,000 people everything they needed to know about this revolutionary product! No one knew then how much the iPhone would change the world.