Charlie Takeuchi Delivers his First China Town Hall Meetings in HGAP-SZ and HGAP-CS
2024-04-23
On April 24th, Charlie Takeuchi, HIES President and CEO, visited Hitachi Global Air Power–Suzhou (HGAP-SZ) and Hitachi Global Air Power – Changshu (HGAP-CS) and delivered his town hall meetings to employees in these two HIES group companies in China for the first time due to the traveling restrictions caused by COVID in the past few years.During the precious time that Charlie spent with the employees, he first shared the company’s purpose, goal, business models, and initiatives related to key strategies including recurring, green and digital from the HIES corporate standpoint.In Charlie’s speech, he mentioned that HIES, as a global company, promised to lead a sustainable future through our green products and innovations. In the new fiscal year, our focus will be on digital, green, innovation, and contributing to a circular economy for sustainable growth. HIES will continuously strive to improve environmental safety, carbon efficiency, our workplace culture, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), prioritize employee health, safety, and career development to build a positive work environment and corporate culture.When discussing culture transformation, Charlie emphasized Safety First was always the No.1 thing as a company. In addition, he introduced Chinese employees to exciting projects that are either in process or planning relating to topics including sustainability, internal communication, DEI, global talent development, and Working Together. All these efforts showed the company’s desire to break down barriers in internal communication, strengthen networks between people having different backgrounds and experiences, and enhance people’s engagement globally, which impressed employees a lot.The Chinese employees also actively responded to Charlie - especially in the Q&A sessions. Employees highly valued the great opportunity to ask their questions to Charlie directly. Charlie’s insightful answers brought smiles to their faces.After the town hall meetings, Charlie also did safety walks with the local management teams in the manufacturing sites respectively. Charlie recognized the efforts made and improvements achieved by HGAP-SZ and HGAP-CS in ensuring employees’ safety in their daily work.In July, Charlie plans to visit the remaining HIES companies in China, which he couldn’t make in this trip, to have more face-to-face communication with other HIES global employees.