Daniel Benavides

Strategic Workforce Planning at Provincial Gaming Org.:

• Contributed to the development and adoption of a new Workforce Planning capability powered by people data.
• Designed and led workshops with 25+ Business Leaders and key stakeholders to translate and quantify how the new enterprise-wide strategic direction would impact the workforce
• Evaluated the Workforce Insights Tool in place and provided detailed feedback on its compatibility to the newly developed Workforce Planning Capability.
• Developed a Workforce Analysis tool to activate the Workforce Planning capability with potential to improve through a feedback based on the maturity of the capability and the users' experience.
• Led the activation of the near- and long-term Workforce Plans leveraging people data and forecasting models to generate enterprise-wide insights and recommendations.
• Partnered with and upskilled the HR Strategy team to understand Workforce Planning requirements, use the Workforce Analysis tool, generate insights, and understand their value to power their workforce plans.
• Developed an Executive Level report including enterprise-wide insights, talent initiatives, and Build, Buy, Borrow recommendations on how to address capacity, capability, and skill gaps to realize their strategic ambitions.

Generative AI Workforce Disruption Analysis across a Large Private Muli-National Enterprise:

• Collaborated with the Advanced Analytics department to build a Workforce Analytics tool powered by GenAI to conduct an enterprise-wide Workforce Analysis on the potential for GenAI to disrupt the workforce.
• Informed and developed 3 different Gen AI disruption scenarios, workforce strategy recommendations for each, and their broader financial and talent organizational impacts.
• Developed a framework to leverage AI to identify critical skills of the future.
• Created an executive level report and advised Senior Leaders to summarize findings across scenarios and final recommendations.

Skills Gap Analysis across Crown Corporation, Public Service Provider, and Provincial Gaming Organization:

• Conducted interviews with business leaders to understand strategic priorities and current state of the workforce
• Co-facilitated workshops with senior business leaders to identify critical skill gaps across the workforce.
• Conducted a quantitative headcount- and skill-gap analysis across one of these businesses to inform and recommend a talent strategy to acquire critical skillsets.

• Conducted advanced statistical analyses to generate insights for item calibration and test equating, ensuring consistent and valid measurement across financial assessments.
• Helped with the development of an Business Analytics Tool to identify forms of cheating across financial evaluations.
• Collaborated with Project Managers to seamlessly process data and communicate insights to enable efficient action on a weekly basis.
• Led the generation of Executive Reports to support the continued partnership with regulators and clients.

• Utilized Workforce Insights to inform employees' preferred channels of communication and learning and created Personas to inform the development of Learning Tools.
• Conducted advanced statistical analysis to generate insights that informed differences in Employee Experience between demographic groups (age, gender, race, seniority level).
• Leveraged people data to generate insights and make recommendations on the redesigning of a promotion process.
• Designed and implemented an employee listening survey to leverage people data for pre- and post- program evaluation analysis.