This article accompanies Leading the Talent of Tomorrow and The 2012 HR Honor Roll.

Title: Executive Vice President, Global Strategy and Talent

Organization: ManpowerGroup, Milwaukee, Wis. 

Key HR Challenges: Helping guide ManpowerGroup's 2011-12 transformation from a traditional staffing-services company to one with several new brands offering a more varied suite of workforce solutions.

Key HR Accomplishments: ManpowerGroup's new internal architecture required a more collaborative organizational model. Swan had a major impact in developing the structure and plan that required leaders to think, operate and lead differently. She accomplished that through several in-house programs involving leadership training around the world.