How does a global AI company hear the voice of 1,200 employees spread across the US, Canada, India, China, and Germany, in 20 different languages?
Elizabeth Egan, Global HR Business Partner and Talent Management Director at Cerence AI, shares how the organization built a structured employee listening program with CultureMonkey that spans engagement, onboarding, and exit surveys across its entire global workforce.
Rather than sending separate communications for each language or choosing languages on behalf of employees, Cerence AI uses CultureMonkey's multilingual survey platform to let each employee select the language they're most comfortable responding in.
The system translates survey questions contextually, not just linguistically, preserving meaning across cultures.
Elizabeth also explains how CultureMonkey's AI-powered action plans helped managers move from feedback to action without reinventing the wheel, and how benchmarking against competitors, industry, and company size gave leadership the context they needed to act with confidence.
Key outcomes and insights from this conversation:
- Achieving 86% survey participation across 1,200 global employees.
- Running multilingual engagement surveys across 20+ languages with employee-chosen language selection.
- Using AI-suggested action plans to reduce complexity for managers.
- Benchmarking engagement against industry, company size, and competitors.
- Deploying lifecycle surveys including onboarding and exit to understand the full employee journey.
- Targeted reminder logic that only reaches employees who haven't yet completed the survey.
- Focusing action planning on 1 to 2 priority items per cycle for measurable progress.
- Supporting anonymity and third-party privacy to build employee trust in the process.
In this video, you'll learn:
- How to run employee engagement surveys across a multilingual, global workforce.
- Why employee-chosen language selection improves response quality over assigned translations.
- How AI-powered action plans reduce the burden on managers.
- Why focusing on fewer action items per survey cycle produces stronger results.
- How lifecycle surveys across onboarding and exit give a fuller picture of the employee journey.
- What drives 86% participation in a global technology company.
This is especially relevant for HR leaders in technology, AI, and SaaS companies, as well as organizations managing engagement across multiple countries, languages, and distributed teams.
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1️⃣ Explore multilingual and omni-channel employee surveys → https://www.culturemonkey.io/multilingual-and-omni-channel-surveys/
2️⃣ Understand employee lifecycle surveys from onboarding to exit → https://www.culturemonkey.io/employee-life-cycle/
3️⃣ Employee engagement for the technology industry → https://www.culturemonkey.io/industries/technology
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Elizabeth Egan, Global HR Business Partner, Cerence AI
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