Jerry Pico

Jerry is an expert who is passionate about culture, leadership development, learning, inclusion and diversity, and talent management – he frequently publishes articles and speaks on these topics at conferences. He’s also authored a course on culture change for LinkedIn Learning that has been translated into 10 languages and viewed over 300k times, his second course on talent management was released in March 2022, and has already been viewed over 12k times.
Jerry has 20 + years of international consulting and in-house experience leading regional and global teams in the US, Europe and Asia with leading companies in the technology, FMCG, pharmaceutical, professional and financial services sectors: Daiichi Sankyo, Allianz, Google, Ernst & Young, Wells Fargo, ABB, Daniel Swarovski and W.L. Gore. He is skilled at coaching, facilitating, developing and advising leaders at all levels including senior executives, and has strong intercultural skills, that were developed by working with diverse clients and students from many countries.
Jerry joined Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH in 2018 as the Head of Leadership, Learning and Talent. In his current role, he is leading the company’s Global Culture Transformation Initiative and is reporting to Daiichi Sankyo’s CHRO in Tokyo. In 2020 he led a global project team to perform an in-depth cultural diagnostic in collaboration with McKinsey to identify the desired culture the company needed to develop in order to achieve its business goal of becoming a leading global pharma innovator. He is currently leading the initiative in collaboration with Korn Ferry to ensure the successful adoption and embedding of the company’s new Core Behaviors developed from the diagnostic.