David Mitchell is a Partner in Mercer’s Career consulting business. David challenges corporate and HR leaders to re-imagine the future of work.  In this fast-approaching world of tomorrow, employees will flow to tasks, assignments, and projects, with skills, rather than titles and jobs, as the foundation of work.  Companies will leverage the full range of flexibility – where the work is done, when the work is done, who does the work, and how the work is done – to effectively engage a diverse workforce in a myriad of new work-worker configurations to drive profitable growth.  And both employers and employees will experience transformation productivity improvements through the embrace of emerging technologies like generative AI and social robotics.
David brings a global mindset to engagements based on his fifteen years experience as an expatriate consulting and HR leader in Europe, South Asia, and East Asia.  As a Transformation consulting leader responsible for the Asia Pacific region, David advised some of the most innovative companies in the world as they pioneered new approaches to agile decision-making and flexible organizations.  As a Bangalore- and Beijing-based regional leader for a leading enterprise technology provider, David partnered with multinational clients and high-growth local firms to deploy cutting-edge technologies that enlivened the employee experience and empowered managers with at-their-fingertips, timely insights for best managing their teams.  And, as a Chief Human Capital Officer of a unicorn ($1 billion) start-up healthcare system, David built, scaled, and led an HR function founded on global best practices and dedicated to empowering & engaging HR staff.
David’s client advisory work has focused on enabling global financial services, healthcare services, hardware, software & e-commerce technology providers, and biopharma innovators to advance with evidence-based deliberation toward the future of work.
David is a graduate (magna cum laude) of Princeton University.