Palo Alto, California, July 2026 — HP has appointed Cheryl Doggett as Senior Vice President of Talent & Learning, strengthening its global people leadership as the company continues transforming how its employees work, learn, and lead in an increasingly digital and AI-driven workplace.
Announcing the appointment, Carol Surface, Chief People Officer at HP, welcomed Cheryl to the organization, emphasizing the strategic importance of the Talent & Learning function.
“At HP, we’re transforming how we work, learn, and lead, making the work of our Talent & Learning team critical. Cheryl brings more than 20 years of experience leading talent and learning organizations. She has successfully led organizations through growth, digital transformation, mergers and acquisitions, and large-scale business change, always with a strong focus on people and business outcomes. Cheryl’s experience, leadership, and passion for developing talent will accelerate our talent and learning strategy as we continue helping our customers and employees do their best work. Welcome to HP, Cheryl!”
Cheryl joins HP with more than three decades of leadership experience spanning enterprise talent management, leadership development, organizational transformation, learning, succession planning, workforce strategy, and business transformation across global technology, healthcare, financial services, and consulting organizations.
Most recently, she served as Vice President, Global Talent Management at Intuitive, the global medical technology company pioneering robotic-assisted surgery. During her four-year tenure, Cheryl led enterprise-wide talent strategy, executive talent management, leadership development, employee engagement, onboarding, learning, people analytics, and performance management. She also served as one of the company’s three Acting People Officers, reporting directly to the CEO for 17 months while supporting an enterprise-wide HR operating model transformation and global Workday implementation. Under her leadership, Intuitive achieved a 92% employee engagement score, strengthened executive succession planning, and implemented award-winning leadership development programs for more than 1,800 people leaders.
Before Intuitive, Cheryl was Vice President and Chief Talent Officer at Anthem, Inc. (now Elevance Health), where she built the enterprise talent strategy for one of America’s largest healthcare organizations with approximately 96,000 employees. Her accomplishments included strengthening executive succession planning, establishing an internal executive search function that generated substantial cost savings, improving associate engagement, advancing diversity and inclusion initiatives, and leading workforce planning and hybrid workplace strategies during a period of significant organizational transformation.
Earlier, Cheryl served as Vice President, Global Learning and Leadership Development at Medtronic, where she established a global Learning & Development Center of Excellence, transformed fragmented leadership programs into a unified global portfolio, expanded leadership capability, and significantly improved organizational engagement while supporting one of the world’s leading medical technology companies.
Her earlier career includes senior leadership positions with Bank of America, where she led large-scale organizational transformation, leadership development, workforce restructuring, change management, organizational design, and performance improvement initiatives during one of the most significant transformation periods in the bank’s history.
She also held leadership roles with Electronic Data Systems (EDS), directing global learning and executive development programs supporting more than 135,000 employees across 64 countries, and previously worked as a Principal Management Consultant at CSC, delivering large-scale business transformation and ERP implementation programs for global organizations.
In addition to her executive responsibilities, Cheryl serves as Secretary and Chair-Elect of the Board of Directors of the Association for Talent Development (ATD), the world’s largest professional association dedicated to talent development and workplace learning.
Her appointment reinforces HP’s continued investment in leadership capability, workforce transformation, employee development, and learning innovation as the company accelerates its digital and AI-enabled future of work strategy.
About HP
HP Inc. is a global technology company committed to creating technology that improves life for everyone, everywhere. With a heritage spanning more than 80 years, HP delivers innovative personal computing, printing, and 3D printing solutions while advancing sustainability, climate action, digital equity, and responsible innovation. Through its global workforce and customer-centric approach, HP continues to help individuals and organizations work, create, and achieve more in an increasingly connected world.
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