
Shruti Ganeriwala
CHRO
Unilever ANZ & APAC
Shruti has been with Unilever ANZ for 10 years, taking the reigns as Head of HR for Australia and New Zealand in 2023 and in 2025, she took on the additional responsibility for the APAC cluster.
Shruti loves partnering with teams to help drive their strategic business agenda, redefining work, unlocking performance and productivity while also helping organisations build an inclusive culture where everyone belongs. This is deep rooted in her purpose to “Create Belonging for myself and others” by living her values of positivity, curiosity & connections. Some of Shruti’s key achievements at Unilever include landing organization transformations, driving a change agenda, spearheading progressive policy changes like Gender affirmation leave, leave for pregnancy loss & fertility treatments while experimenting with new flexible working models.
Shruti has 20+ years of HR experience, in both developing and developed markets, across a variety of roles including Organization Transformation, Change Management, Learning, Talent Management, Wellbeing, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) and HR Business partnering.
On a personal front, Shruti gets her energy from spending time with her husband and daughter, reading, doing yoga, and staying connected with friends and family all over the world!
SESSIONS
Day 2
9:20
Keynote Panel: Balancing innovation, trust and workforce impact
Lessons from government and industry on piloting and scaling AI responsibly
Building trust and transparency through clear guardrails on ethics, privacy and data use to accelerate adoption
Leading the culture shift and redefining HR’s role in an AI-augmented workforce, with practical steps to build AI literacy and curiosity across teams
Ensuring a fair workforce transition through reskilling, transparency and trust-based leadership to minimise anxiety and resistance
Navigating regulatory, legal and workforce risks without slowing down innovation or business outcomes
Lucy Poole, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Strategy, Planning and Performance, Digital Transformation Agency
Lee Hickin, Executive Director, National AI Centre
Nick Martin, Special Counsel, Wotton + Kearney
Shruti Ganeriwala, CHRO, Unilever ANZ & APAC