Our guest is Stephen Pierce - Vice President and Chief HR Officer at Hitachi Europe.Stephen has led HR in international businesses for more than 30 years. He has been recognized publicly for business leadership, including being appointed a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and being voted one of the UK’s most influential HR leaders for a number of years.Stephen is a Board Director of Hitachi Europe and a member of the Executive Committee. He is also Chair of the Hitachi European Diversity & Inclusion Council. He is also an adviser to several HR networking organisations and a regular speaker at conferences and a coach and mentor.In this episode of Scaling Culture, Ron and Stephen discuss:  Hitachi's Organizational Culture with 350,000 leaders globally and changes during the pandemic How does the Japanese heritage impact culture Digitization, virtual workplaces, and a new way of working How HR loves rules and when you need to throw out the rule book  For more information about Stephen, please follow him on LinkedIn.To learn more about our books or our Scaling Culture Masterclass on how to build and sustain a resilient, high-performing team, please go to ScalingCulture.Org. Lastly, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a comment and share the podcast with one of your friends or colleagues. We’ll be back soon with another incredible guest!