Beth Davies

From Gap to Tesla, Beth Davies has helped the world’s most successful companies deliver at all levels. As a keynote speaker, Davies shares the insights and stories she gathered while helping some of the world’s most visionary companies deliver on their promise to reinvent the future.

In a career that has spanned a quarter century, Davies has helped countless companies build winning cultures. Apple, Tesla, and Microsoft seek her guidance in their efforts to become customer-centered, innovative workplaces.

Davies began her career at Tesla in manufacturing. At the time, the company owned a new and empty factory that was scheduled to become a high-quality car-manufacturing facility in less than a year. She led the project of building out training to support factory operations across the board. The factory opened on time, with a fully trained staff. Her success in that first role led Davies to take on similar challenges across the company. With a small team and a smaller budget, she developed an innovative strategy to train Tesla’s entire global workforce. She onboarded new hires, trained sales and delivery teams, and implemented a company-wide learning infrastructure.

Prior to her years at Tesla, Davies was on the small team that designed and implemented Microsoft’s retail strategy. As the company’s customer experience director, she was responsible for training employees at all Microsoft stores worldwide. Davies was also a key figure in Apple’s recovery from the brink of bankruptcy. In 2003, she became Apple’s head of leadership development. By 2005, she was the head of training for Apple’s still-new, but rapidly growing network of retail stores.

Nowadays, Davies hosts the popular "Career Curves" podcast. In addition, she serves as an advisor to EdTech startups and teaches in the Talent Development & Human Resources master’s program at IE University.