This week, Constellation Research announced its 2021 Business Transformation 150 (BT150), an elite list of executives leading business transformation efforts around the globe. We are proud to share that Heidi Spirgi, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Cornerstone, has been named to the list among other visionary business leaders.
Leaders have been challenged this year by a perfect storm of disruptions: COVID-19, generational shifts in the workforce, transformative action for diversity and inclusion, a hypercompetitive new customer experience landscape, and the relentless march of exponential digital change. Executives named to the 2021 Business Transformation 150 list understand how the business environment is transforming in response to all of these pressures and are proactively preparing their organizations to excel during and after this transformation.
Heidi is an adaptable, empathic leader who guides her team to rethink how work can get done, without losing sight of a people-first mindset. She leads by example through her commitment to work-life balance for herself and her team, and she advocates for peers, encouraging them to use their voices to spark change. She has a deep-rooted passion for embracing a "beginner’s mindset" so that businesses can cultivate innovative cultures and teams built on cognitive and demographic diversity.
Now, just over one year with Cornerstone, Heidi’s strategic decision-making and innovative approach to how work can get done has helped position Cornerstone to be the market leader. In partnership with the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation, Heidi also orchestrated the launch of Cornerstone Cares, a publicly available site that provides free online training around unconscious bias, COVID-19, stress management and remote work as well as playlists designed for K-12 educators to transition to online learning. Since its launch in March, over 70,000 people have visited the site, completing more than 42,000 courses, in addition to the millions of users who leverage Cornerstone Learning and Content Anytime through their organizations’ portals.
As an agent of change, Heidi has lead the creation of go-to-market campaigns that address the growing concern over the global skills gap, and two recent acquisitions: Saba Software, a cloud-based talent management solution provider, as well as Clustree, one of the world’s most sophisticated skills engines that will be integrated into Cornerstone’s portfolio of products.
"This year’s BT150 leaders have watched their futures accelerate in front of them. As positive change agents, their hard work to build new business models, accelerate organizational change, and apply new technologies has paid off in the post-pandemic environment," said R "Ray" Wang, founder and CEO at Constellation Research. "Moreover, their collective drive to improve the world around them and mentor the next generation sets them apart."
On behalf of Heidi and the Cornerstone team, congratulations to all of the leaders named to the BT150 list!
To learn more about Heidi, you can read about her background and follow her on Twitter and LinkedIn. And for more insight into Heidi’s views about leading through change and how organizations can prepare their people for a new world of work, read her latest posts on the ReWork blog.
