Human resource development (HRD) professionals face several challenges. These include adjusting to different cultures and attitudes when working globally, constantly upgrading skills and knowledge to match the fast pace of technological change, adapting to emerging values like trust and credibility in the corporate world, enhancing knowledge of varying leadership philosophies across regions, understanding employee lifestyles and habits to determine training needs, and staying aware of new practices being adopted internationally so the work environment supports meritocracy, imagination, and accountability.