Vaclav Koranda was born in the Czech Republic.
He has more than 22 years of experience in the field of human resources, and
got his first HR Director role at the
relatively early age of 27. Since then, he has held several executive
roles in the area of Human Resources, namely in the Information and
Communication Technology industry, in Europe and Asia. For a significant part
of his career his role also included regional responsibility, mainly for the
region of Central/Eastern Europe. He also served as a member of the Sector
Council for Information Technology and Telecommunications in Czech Republic.
Vaclav holds a master’s degree in Work &
Organizational Psychology from Charles’ University in Prague and is also a
certified PRINCE2 Practitioner, Certified Human Resource Practitioner (CHRP) by
MIHRM and a SHRM Senior Certified Professional. He is a member of the Malaysian
Institute of Human Resource Management and Organization Development Network
Malaysia, as well as the Malaysian Association of Certified Coaches. In 2018,
he received a "CHRO of the Year" award from Employer Branding
Institute in India. In 2019, he was named among "101 Global HR
Heroes" by the World HRD Congress in Mumbai and received the HR Leader
2019 award from the Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management. In 2020,
he was named one of the most influential HR leaders in Malaysia. In 2022, he
was named an Adjunct Professor at Taylor’s University in Malaysia, ranked as
the no. 1 private university in Southeast Asia for three consecutive years, and
among the top 1% of the most influential universities globally.
Vaclav is passionate about the development of
humans and technology, and their interactions, as well as related topics like
digitization, future of work, performance management and reinventing HR in
general. He is a regular speaker at major HR conferences and events around the
world, has been featured in The CEO
Magazine, and is a regular contributor to main HR media like ETHRWorld (from
The Economic Times), Human Resources Online, People Matters, and others. In
2022, he authored a book "HR Digital Transformation".
