ANDREA L. HENDERSON BRANDY ALFRED, PhD
AI + HR: A PRACTICAL STARTING POINT FOR HR LEADERS EXPLORING AI
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how work gets done—and HR leaders are being asked to help guide that transformation.
This free 5-day email course introduces a practical framework for understanding how AI can support HR workflows while keeping human judgment, governance, and strategy at the center.
Over five short lessons, you’ll learn where AI can create real value, how to identify responsible use cases, and how to think about AI through the lens of AI + Human Intelligence (AI + HI).
This course is the first step in a broader series of resources, training, and tools we’ll be releasing to help HR leaders navigate the future of work.
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ANDREA HENDERSON BIOGRAPHY
Andrea Henderson has been helping organizations match talent to value for over 25 years. She helps organizations scale, manage people risks and capture market opportunities via talent. Andrea is a Partner in the Life Sciences, Healthcare, Diversity, CEO & Board practices with DHR Global, a top 6 executive search and talent advisory firm. Prior to this, she has held leadership roles with Genentech, Pfizer, Novartis, SUNY Downstate and Trinity Health.
She was selected as part of the inaugural cohort of Perplexity Fellows, reflecting her leadership at the intersection of talent, strategy, and emerging technology. She is also certified by Google in ai.
With a passion for growing and sustaining strong organizations, Andrea has developed a niche helping organizations scale using innovative executive talent strategies. She is an executive mentor for the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship’s accelerator program at Santa Clara University.
Understanding that a pillar of strong organizations is good governance, Andrea serves on the Audit Committee for the Private Directors Association and is certified in Private Company Board Governance. She is also on the global Nominating Committee for the Healthcare Businesswoman’s Association.
Profiled in the book, Ambition Is Not a Dirty Word, by business psychologist Dr. Debra Condren, and congruent with the title, Andrea is an Angel Investor and LP in a female-focused venture fund.
Andrea obtained a bachelor’s degree from Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a master’s degree in international relations from Clark Atlanta University, and a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia Business School.
BRANDY ALFRED, PhD BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Brandy Alfred is a technology executive and transformation leader known for building leadership teams, partnerships, governance frameworks, and operating models that help organizations thrive during periods of technological disruption. With more than two decades of leadership across global technology, healthcare, and cloud platforms, she specializes in translating emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, and cloud ecosystems, into sustainable growth, workforce readiness, and measurable stakeholder value.
Dr. Alfred’s leadership uniquely combines enterprise modernization with corporate responsibility, enabling organizations to scale innovation while strengthening institutional trust and economic inclusion. She served on the 2020 Steering Committee of the World Economic Forum Global Health Equity Network, where she helped advance the inaugural Zero Health Gaps Pledge announced in Davos and mobilize commitments from 33 Fortune 100 CEOs. Her enterprise leadership spans several of the world’s most influential technology companies.
At Infor, she oversaw the ERP P&L in a pre-IPO growth environment, managing 160 personnel and serving more than 1,000 healthcare providers across a highly regulated infrastructure. At GE Healthcare Digital, she led post-merger integration across workforce, human capital, and electronic health record platforms to ensure operational resilience and regulatory alignment.
At Salesforce, as Global Vice President of Partnerships & Innovation, she built and scaled a global ecosystem of strategic partners—including GSIs, consulting firms, software innovators, and private equity partners—managing a $200M portfolio within a $1B P&L across CRM, AI, and collaboration platforms such as Slack, accelerating enterprise adoption in the $8B+ population health software market.
Most recently at Amazon, as Head of Corporate & Business Development for Amazon Business, she built strategic capital and procurement partnerships that connected more than 3,000 small businesses with major institutional buyers and enabled over 400 universities to direct procurement toward local suppliers, mobilizing roughly $800M in institutional spending and strengthening regional economic ecosystems.
Dr. Alfred is a Fellow of the UC Berkeley Black Venture Institute and a Limited Partner in venture funds with Portfolia and Capitalize VC (alongside Bank of America). She also serves as Board Director and Strategic Planning Chair for Dallas Black Dance Theatre. She actively advises Political Action Committees on preparedness for the future of work by building AI-fluent leadership, modern governance frameworks, and inclusive economic growth.
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