Chief People & Belonging Officer
Novant Health
Sebastien (Seb) Girard serves as Senior Vice President, Chief People & Belonging Officer, leading the full people, culture and belonging strategy and employee experience, at Novant Health. Novant Health is an integrated health system with over 850 locations, 19 hospitals, 40,000 team members and 2,000 physicians across the Carolinas.
Seb is an accomplished human resources leader with talents and practical skills in HR transformation, workforce planning, talent acquisition and management, HR technologies, and market disruption.
A native of Montreal, Canada, Seb joined Novant Health from Centura Health in Denver, Colorado, where he served SVP, Chief People Officer supporting a team of 21,000 outstanding caregivers. He previously served as Senior Vice President responsible for workforce engagement and workforce operations at Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina and as the Chief Workforce Officer at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, Texas. He spent nearly fifteen years with Randstad, a Dutch-based global human resources consulting firm, in executive and operations roles in both the United States and Canada.
Seb has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management. He also serves as an advisory board member with three independent HR companies innovating in nurse staffing, professional nurse development, and health care workforce managed solutions.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
4:30pm – 5:30pm CT