Chicago CHRO Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Organizations’ ability to survive, adapt and grow hinge on recruiting and retaining high-quality, diverse talent. But in the current hiring landscape, many CHROs are finding that it has become an employee market, making it necessary to shift strategies and adopt new approaches. How are CHROs creating anterior solutions and hanging onto talent in this landscape amongst intense competition? 

Join this session as HR leaders discuss: 

• Methods for exceeding employee expectations including compensation, benefits, flexibility and additional creative solutions
• Tools and approaches for attracting and retaining diverse talent in the dynamic and competitive employee market
• Ideas for maintaining and strengthening culture amid a largely geographically dispersed and virtual work environment

During massive changes, it can be difficult to maintain employee engagement. But through leadership alignment, strong manager capability and increased focus on diversity and inclusion, Fitbit has a unique story (prior to the Google acquisition). Over the past few years they increased engagement scores by over 20 points through both a global pandemic and merger fueling positive change and business results.

Join this session as HR leaders discuss:

• Strategies to build a high performing culture
• Engage the business to drive a broader human capital agenda
• Enact strong HR fundamentals to build organizational capability

Organizations’ ability to survive, adapt and grow in this environment hinges on recruiting high-quality talent. Simultaneously, HR leaders must reevaluate structuring staff and tracking the performance of their function while operating from a hybrid environment.

In this session, HR leaders will discuss:

• Retaining and strengthening culture to accommodate a virtual and hybrid environment
• Acquiring high-quality internal and external talent with a diversity of skills, backgrounds, employment models and work preferences
• Addressing growing expectations for remotely onboarding employees

The impacts of 2020 are still being studied, and the effects on the workplace and the workforce have been significant and in some cases, permanent. When designing the new world of work, HR leaders must consider many variables and develop a plan that is both flexible and future-focused.

 Join this session as HR leaders discuss:

• Workplace strategy, corporate real estate holdings and workforce skill needs

• Strategies to adapt forecast processes to account for frequent changes

• Considerations for returning to the workplace and alignment with business objectives

  
  

The health and wellbeing of employees has always been top of mind for HR leaders, but the aftermath of COVID-19 has left a wake of concern for leadership. Employee safety, along with their mental, emotional and physical health has taken a seat as one of the top priorities moving forward. How can leaders ensure that the workforce is holistically cared for?

Join this session as HR leaders discuss:

• Methods for gathering employee sentiment to enact effective policies
• Instituting programs for holistic wellbeing including psychological safety
• People based strategies for improved productivity and engagement

To lead organizations into the future of work, CHROs need strong HR technology tools in their kit. Successfully navigating vendor selection, deployment and end-user adoption requires a skillful and flexible execution plan that ties HR solutions to business objectives.

Join this session to discuss how HR leaders can:

• Enable employee experience and support organizational goals with HR technology
• Align technology with employee expectations to increase end-user adoption
• Improve change management for HR technology implementations

Any given gesture -a nod, a point of the finger - unconsciously communicates powerful ideas and feelings that have tangible consequences. Top executives are generally proficient in their ability to interact with others, but the stakes are raised during high-level negotiations, reporting to the board, inspiring and empowering senior managers or dealing with tricky internal matters. This is especially challenging in a highly remote environment.

Join body language expert Chris Ulrich as he shares:

• Why every movement and action is magnified in high-level situations
• Tools and techniques to build rapport quickly
• How executives can communicate more effectively both virtually and in person