Censia AI Adds Peter M. Fasolo to Its Board to Strengthen the Workforce Intelligence Layer
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5, 2026 - Censia AI has appointed Peter M. Fasolo, former Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Johnson & Johnson, to its Board of Directors. The move signals a deeper push to make capability planning, workforce planning, and org design decisions faster and more defensible for large enterprises.
Censia's platform turns fragmented skills and talent data into decision-ready signals inside existing HR workflows. For HR leaders under pressure to deploy skills at scale and prepare for what's next, this is about reducing guesswork and shortening decision cycles.
Why this matters for HR
Most organizations have skills data scattered across HCM, ATS, LMS, and spreadsheets. Censia helps unify that picture, infer adjacencies, and forecast role and skill demand-directly where HR teams work today, including inside Workday.
- See current capability depth by team, region, and function.
- Forecast demand and redeploy talent to close gaps faster.
- Run org design scenarios with clear signals, not hunches.
- Strengthen succession decisions and internal mobility.
- Improve governance with explainability and auditability.
Who is Peter M. Fasolo
Fasolo led global talent strategy at Johnson & Johnson, partnering with executive leadership and the board on succession, compensation, and organizational effectiveness across one of the largest enterprises in the world. He brings hard-won operating experience where the cost of wrong talent calls is high.
He currently serves as director of the Human Resources Policy Institute and as a professor of practice in management and organizations at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. He is an executive fellow at Harvard Business School, a trustee of Tufts University, and a member of the board of directors of the National Academy of Human Resources. He also advises growth-stage and private-equity-backed companies.
"Peter brings a rare combination of operator experience and board-level perspective," said Joanna Riley, co-founder and CEO of Censia. "He's led workforce decisions where the cost of being wrong is massive-succession, capability shifts, operating model change. That's exactly why we're building Censia as the system of intelligence for the workforce: to turn talent data into clear, defensible decisions."
"Workforce intelligence is becoming core infrastructure for how organizations adapt and compete," Fasolo said. "Censia is building a continuously live decision layer that helps leaders understand today's capabilities, anticipate what comes next, and design organizations that can keep pace with change."
What HR leaders can do now
- Centralize skills and role data from HCM/ATS/LMS and align definitions across functions.
- Establish a capability taxonomy with clear adjacencies and levels.
- Pilot one high-value workflow (e.g., internal mobility or succession) inside your current HCM.
- Set governance: data quality owners, model monitoring, and decision rights.
- Tie insights to quarterly talent reviews, budgeting, and capacity planning.
- Track outcomes: time-to-fill, internal mobility rate, skill coverage vs. forecast, and cost per move.
About Censia AI
Censia AI is the workforce system of intelligence. The platform transforms skills, capabilities, and talent data into clear signals leaders can use to plan, redeploy, and build capabilities at scale. Embedded in leading HR ecosystems-including Workday-Censia helps organizations understand current capacity, predict emerging demand, and activate the workforce through capability-based planning and internal mobility.
Censia AI is built for enterprise security, governance, and explainability so leaders can trust the outputs. Learn more at censia.com.
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