Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

A high-turnover environment persists as CHROs also work to balance a stubbornly competitive labor market, economic strain and permanent changes to work models. To hold onto valuable and scarce talent, it will take more targeted strategies to appeal to different subsets of employees.

Join this interactive session ready to:

• Share how you're identifying and acting on attrition risks
• Explore retention strategies beyond compensation
• Problem-solve with peers and consider new approaches to talent challenges

Effective people analytics is now mandatory for successful collaboration with the CEO, board and organization at large. Despite this directive, many HR leaders feel behind or limited when it comes to talent data. How can CHROs gain the right insight into the productivity, cost and efficiency of your people?

Join this session to discuss:

• Improving transparency and fairness of people decisions 
• Providing the business better insights around people
• Building data-driven decisions into your culture

Through any type of organizational transformation — whether digital, M&A or cultural — change management is a critical piece for CHROs to support. How can HR leaders approach transformations from a bottom-up perspective that puts employees first?

Join this session to discuss ways to:

• Increase the success of business transformations
• Equip managers to effectively lead change initiatives 
• Prevent change fatigue proactively

CHROs are constantly tackling competing priorities in an ever-changing landscape. The dust will never settle: volatility and uncertainty define the operating environment. How do we support our people to stay resilient in the face of change?

Come together with your peers to tackle approaches to:

• Balance employee productivity with flexibility
• Upskill burdened managers to support their teams’ wellbeing
• How to play offense and defense at the same time and plan for the future with optimism while remaining realistic about challenges

Creating a strong workplace community is essential to meet the evolving challenges of 2023. Yet, new research from the O.C. Tanner Institute reveals how burnout and isolation among leaders and employees are threatening culture and organizational success. These challenges need fresh strategies to create a thriving workplace community.

Join this session to learn: 

• Insights from the perspectives of 38,000 leaders and employees worldwide
• Best practices for fortifying leaders and growing generalists in an era of change
• Ways symbolic, integrated recognition create a strong sense of community for all

Because future leaders are inspired by how we lead, it’s important we design a micro-employee culture within our teams with the potential to flourish beyond the walls of our workstream. In the meantime, we are change management leaders living in a constant world of disruption and turmoil at every step. Designing an optimal culture starts with ensuring we take an empathetic approach to communicating with our team. This highly interactive session will leave attendees with immediate takeaways to communicate with empathy to improve the well-being of their teams and inspire leaders across their organizations to make impactful changes.

Join this session to learn:

• The power of empathy to inspire the next generation of leaders
• Examples of when to be sympathetic, when to be empathetic, and when to be compassionate
• Communication strategies to reduce stress and anxiety across your team

Where, why, when and how people work provide dynamic meanings. ADP’s Worker Identity Research Collaboration (WIRC) developed new insights derived from a diverse set of workers across industries. Identified are four key themes that reveal how people feel about work and offer a rare glimpse into the state of workforce culture. This anthropological lens can benefit leaders as they seek to strengthen their respective organizations.

Join this session to learn about these influences on workers:

• The risk of staying with one employer for too long
• The effects of digital tools and the “when” of work
• Burnout, social issues and systemic change

Even the most thoughtful succession plans risk failure in today’s world of rapid change and frequent disruption. With leadership skills shifting and roles of the future uncertain, how can CHROs use new tools and technology to develop a succession plan that can actually come to fruition?

Join this session to discuss:

• New trends and emerging technology in succession management
• Overcoming common challenges in executing a succession plan
• Metrics for assessing succession plan health

Organizations are facing a unique triple squeeze — inflation, talent and global supply disruption are all creating new day-to-day pressures. As focus shifts, CHROs must consciously work to keep diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from moving to the back burner, instead positioning them as opportunities to ensure long-term resilience.

Join this session to discuss how to:

• Keep DE&I tied to mission-critical priorities amid uncertainty
• Maintain progress despite budgetary constraints
• Secure talent stability by strengthening core values

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.

At the intersection of talent strategy and business success sits the CEO-CHRO relationship, which requires a solid foundation of mutual support. As talent initiatives continue to be front and center for organizations, what steps can CHROs take to ensure the relationship with the CEO is as strong as possible?

Join this session as CHROs discuss:

• Evolving into a talent-led organization with CEO commitment
• Building talent initiatives into the long-term business strategy
• Strengthening the CEO-CHRO partnership

In challenging times, it’s easy to play the culture blame game, but CHROs can change that. The health of your organization and culture depends on HR leaders stepping up and taking action. What are common myths surrounding employee engagement and the keys to a total rewards strategy for future success?

Join this session to explore:

• How employee engagement and total rewards are intrinsically tied together
• The tangible ROI of engagement and how to better measure its impact
• Specific strategies to improve your total rewards offerings

According to Gartner, 94% of businesses plan to deploy some form of artificial intelligence by 2025. HR leaders are being tasked with not only rolling out new processes, but ensuring the technology being implemented remains fair and unbiased in its recommendations.

This session will focus on:

• Understanding common applications of AI and its impact on work and talent
• Preparing for and addressing the ethical implications of AI in HR technology
• Knowing AI's power to transform hiring and compliance processes

No organization can drive results without highly adept leadership and a strong bench of successors. Join Obed Louissaint, Chief People Officer & SVP at Aptiv as he draws from two decades of career lessons at IBM for this engaging keynote on how CHROs should approach leadership development in the new era of work. 

This keynote will explore: 

• The importance of leadership development that is tightly woven into business strategy
• Strategies for developing teams, not just leaders
• Defining the modern leader