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Tugba Ö. Åkesson
Retail & E-commerce
“Nominating Tugba Ö. Åkesson at IKEA. She's the one who turned Values-Based Recruitment from a slide deck into a global community people genuinely show up for every year, and when SocialTalent's CEO sat down with her, his takeaway was that IKEA 'balances AI innovation with human connection' across 31 markets. That's not an accident, that's her fingerprints on it.”