HR Leaders Virtual Summit 2021

2021 Speakers

(All times in Eastern Standard Time)

Welcome & Virtual Navigation

Chairperson – Welcome

Opening Keynote Presentation

Wellbeing & Resilience: Supporting Employees Through Crisis Fatigue

Employees across the hybrid workforce have been exposed to more harmful situations than ever, whether they are remote workers or essential employees in a hospital, office, warehouse, or on-the-go. It’s important to improve resilience and employee engagement so employees can operate on their strengths, perform well, and in turn, this should drive business outcomes.

Healthcare is an industry with pressure, high-intensity jobs, and now more than ever, a workforce facing crises fatigue. Learn how wellbeing and resilience have been addressed from the perspective of a leader who has been guiding the human resources strategy for healthcare workers during this unprecedented time in history. Lessons will include how to provide the help your talent needs in a time of crises, and also how to do it in a way that is improving the business.

Panel Discussion

The Future of HR: Adapting, Progressing, and Transforming in 2021

The massive disruption and changes brought on by 2020 have changed the ways organizations operate around the world: from the global pandemic, and the impact of demands for social justice, to the fiscal crisis. These colossal events have overhauled the workplace and introduced the necessity to not only tolerate, but welcome new policies, processes, principles, and accommodations. Human Resources leaders have been spearheading the efforts and solving the challenges of remote workforce development and digital adoption, on-site operational changes, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, social justice, and more.

Now, in a new year, 2021 is moving beyond survival. It is essential that Human Resources leaders transform in order to flourish in a perpetual state of change and be positioned for sustainable prosperity. In this thought-provoking conversation, we will dive into topics including:

• The infrastructure to prepare leaders for the workforce of today and tomorrow
• Activating employee voice to engage every individual in navigating the future
• Equipping leaders to meet the expectations of the incoming workforce
• The new HR value proposition for a hybrid workforce
• The policies, processes, principles, and accommodations that can withstand consistent change

Lunch & Learn: Hybrid Workforce

Join us for an informal and interactive group session where we’ll discuss challenges and strategy implementations that are top of mind for today’s human resources practitioners

Developing Leadership Strategies and Capabilities in a Hybrid Workforce

Let’s be real…developing a sustainable strategy for supporting your Leaders’ development today is tough.

It was hard before we were walking on this tightrope of a hybrid workforce. And, now? It feels like everything could change again, with the flip of a dime, and we need to be ready.

Join us for a collaborative discussion on the most effective strategies on developing your Leaders in the business realities of today.

We’ll discuss how to maintain and evolve your corporate culture while providing what your leaders need for their development and behavior change that not only endures but sets your leaders and your company up for success.

Come with your best ideas, ready to challenge assumptions, or with a real-time development strategy you are looking to gain some other insight on.

Our goal is to create the space for us to learn and grow together – oh and enjoy lunch too!
See you then!

Keynote Presentation

The Role of Human Resources in Leading Business Transformation During a Crisis

Human resources holds the role of gaining employee support for a business transformation, a daunting task during a crisis. The organization quickly discontinued work on many initiatives and gained unwavering alignment on the most critical initiatives to keep employees safe and continue to serve customers. Hear from Rent-A-Center to learn how they served communities in a safe way and empowered employees, while giving them a sense of value, supporting the company mission. Hear how the Company plans to return corporate employees to the office to foster collaboration and maintain the culture.

Learn how Rent-A-Center went through business transformation and achieved growth during a global pandemic and socioeconomic crisis while retaining employees who supported a greater mission: to improve the quality of life for their customers and their coworkers. This session will touch on topics including:

• Ensuring the Employee Value Proposition drives the customer experience
• Maintaining the organizational mission during business transformation
• Igniting passion in employees to increase motivation and focus
• Providing employees with the tools they need to serve their customers in new ways
• Safe plans for returning to work and employee engagement

Keynote Presentation

The Learning Conundrum – why putting participants behind the wheel creates learning and impact

• You know most corporate learning programs don’t deliver on their desired results.
• You are looking for ways to really matter in your organization.
• You are frustrated that learning is often an afterthought in the business
• What if you have all the answers, they are just out of order.
• What if the Participants become the engine that drives your experiences.
• What if releasing control will create your desired impact.

Join Learn2 to discuss Participant Driven learning opportunities in your organization.

Keynote Presentation

Work Reimagined: A Framework to Implement a Blended Work Environment

It’s no secret that strong leaders build high-performing teams, create healthy cultures, and boost employee satisfaction and retention. In addition, it’s critically important to re-examine executive development in order to optimally prepare and develop emerging leaders.

In this session we’ll discuss strategies on how to successfully collaborate with senior executives to define the ambitions and objectives for their leadership development initiatives, such as:

• Implementing a just-in-time approach to ensure that all critical & future leadership capabilities are developed and embedded in daily work
• Creating an opportunity to change the leadership development from program/event based to a systematic and holistic process with personalized learning
• Maintaining global consistency of key leadership capabilities across states/countries, functions and levels

Keynote Presentation

Listening and Responding at Scale

Listening to employees has never been more crucial to driving business outcomes. Join Perceptyx, and garner insights from their database of 30% of the Fortune 100 and 20% of the Fortune 500, on how employee listening continues to evolve, how technology makes it easy to aggregate and analyze employee data with business outcomes, and how technology can move leaders from action planning to action taking with an easy as 1-2-3 approach. Prior to the outbreak of COVID, the world was already facing the attention crisis, defined by a seemingly endless overload of new information and technological innovations. Now, as we are all facing uncertainty and priorities are shifting by the minute, the attention crisis has been exacerbated, and organizations are in greater need of leaders that are engaging, strategic, and mindful.

Keynote Presentation

2021: Diversity & Inclusion and the Path Forward

2020 was a year of unprecedented change around the globe.   The world was faced with a pandemic which saw people shuttered in their homes, major cities shut down, industries and businesses of all sizes doing their best to manage through an economic crisis. People had to learn new ways of working, teachers had to establish different ways of teaching and students had to adapt to new ways of learning.  As a result of the tragic death of George Floyd and other incidents impacting black people across the United States, we saw an awakening of not just those in the black community but countless others across all dimensions of diversity globally protesting for justice, equity and humanity.   Leaders and organizations across both the public and private sector responded publicly in ways that we haven’t seen in the past.

In 2021, we have to learn from the events of last year to augment our diversity, equity and inclusion strategies.  This year presents new opportunities and challenges and as Human Resources leaders, we must be prepared to lead in a time where the emphasis on diversity and inclusion has intensified across the globe.  Leaders have to exercise new capabilities, organizations need to be able to adapt to the changing landscape as well as be prepared for the workforce and workplace of the future.

During this session, participants will learn:

• How the events of 2020 impacted both the private and public sector
• What these events mean for diversity, inclusion, and equity in 2021
• How these events will shape our future workforce and workplace

Panel Discussion

Creating an Organizational Culture that Supports and Improves the Employee Experience

It’s no secret that organizational culture has varying impacts on employee performance and motivation levels, and most employees work harder to achieve organizational goals if they consider themselves to be part of the corporate environment. In addition, positive culture and great employee experiences can also lead employees to choose to spend their careers within your organization. However, many organizations have difficulty in truly understanding where to focus when trying to determine what actually matters to the workforce.

Join us in this informative and interactive panel as we discuss best practices for creating an organizational culture that fully supports the employee experience, such as:

• Leveraging technology and people analytics tools to uncover the things that are getting in the way of your people and organizational success
• Creating an environment where the workforce feels engaged, by including them in decision-making and presenting a clear career path with opportunities for advancement
• Coaching employees for high-performance, and shaping personalized growth initiatives to engage and develop the workforce
• Identifying and training leaders that are effective, influential, and unwavering in their commitment to sustain a positive culture
• Offering employees rewards, recognition and professional development opportunities to boost employee engagement and increase retention

End of Virtual Summit