Summary
Fouzia Lashari is a seasoned talent and organization effectiveness leader with nearly two decades of experience transforming HR strategy and change for global businesses, currently leading organization effectiveness for Abbott’s $20B medical devices division. She specializes in post-merger integrations, large-scale change management, and designing talent pipelines and leadership programs for critical executive roles, having led integrations of St. Jude Medical and Cardiovascular Systems into Abbott. Fouzia blends data-driven workforce analytics with hands-on coaching of executive teams to align strategy, capabilities, and culture across complex, regulated healthcare businesses. Her background spans regional HR leadership across EMEA and META, manufacturing transformations that delivered multimillion-dollar labor savings, and academic teaching—reflecting a rare mix of practical delivery, cross-cultural fluency, and instructional skill. Trained in MILR at Cornell with an early foundation in computer science and product work, she brings both technical comfort with digital HR tools and a systems-thinking approach to organizational design.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Accounting and Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA Accounting and Finance at Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology
MILR Human Resources and Organizations, MILR Human Resources and Organizations at Cornell University
English, Arabic, Urdu