Envista Holdings Corporation

Danielle Santangelo

Danielle Santangelo is the HR Director for Latin America at Envista Holdings Corporation. With over 15 years of experience in HR at global matrix companies, she excels in strategic HR implementation, talent acquisition and management, organizational development, employee engagement, M&A, and culture transformation. Danielle is known for her leadership in driving HR processes that foster growth and innovation.

Through this article, Danielle Santangelo shares her insights on the need for organizational agility to stay relevant and meet evolving customer needs. She highlights HR's role in aligning processes and people to drive change and business transformation. Key points include organizational redesigns, fostering employee growth through diverse career opportunities and the crucial role of leadership in talent development. This approach ensures business sustainability and supports both individual career progression and overall company longevity.

It´s imperative that today´s organization must be agile in a rapidly changing environment to stay relevant and to attend to customers' needs as this keeps changing, evolving and adapting. The human resources department is key in fostering and opening ways for this to happen in a combined format aligning processes and people. Here at Envista Holdings Corporation, the certainty that we have is that change is part of a business's longevity, and the success of our business transformation certainly depends on people.

“We believe that the success of our business transformation depends on fostering agility and aligning processes and people, ensuring our employees' growth and our company's longevity”

During my years of experience, we have made several organizational redesigns whether it´s a change in our product portfolio, a restructuring or a new design for a more cohesive and effective organization so we can explore other forms of maximizing business performance.

I like to always think of all intrinsic opportunities like combining career opportunities for our employees. We know that career opportunity has many forms and the progression has evolved from linear and vertical to non-linear and more horizontal and this is how we match career opportunities and organizational development.

We foster people's growth through organizational development. This gives a sense of belonging, a willingness to make a difference, develop new skills and strengthen our company culture. In this situation, the leader’s role is so important to assess their team on daily routine interactions, one-on-one conversations and partnering with human resources for talent review so we can capture this in our processes and drive business growth aligned with career opportunities.

This has been a crucial and key ingredient for our business sustainability as we scale our organization and foster career possibilities for our internal talents. We have many examples in our organization from employees ascending careers assuming a larger scope of work or leading a project or even being in a stretch assignment, enhancing people´s potential and sustaining our culture and business longevity.