UK & Ireland CHRO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. Join us at the Hilton Park Lane within the Wellington room, where attendees will enjoy dynamic discussions, fantastic wine and gourmet dishes whilst enjoying fantastic views of Hyde Park.

This is your opportunity to pre-book private face-to-face meetings with executive peers attending the Summit, using a private online portal running up to and during the event. Gain real, practical insights into what other companies and industries are doing, to take back to your boardroom.

Please note: This is for CHRO attendees only. 

Imagine your world if you were the person the CEO called each time they needed wisdom, candor, and insights into their business decisions. I don’t mean mitigating risk, an investigation, or hiring / firing, but deciding whether to acquire a company, strategic expansion, or a new product line.

Val Wright has been both sides of the table reinventing the business impact of the Chief People Officer, Chief Change Officer, or Chief Profit Officer in companies including Amazon, Microsoft, BMW, and Marconi and now advises Board Chairs, CEOs an senior executives at Starbucks, LinkedIn, Google, Amazon, and Dreamworks Animation.

It is time to stop “looking for a seat at the table” and build the table.

Join Val for a practical session where you will have already implemented the ideas before the session has ended in how to influence and lead your CEO and Board to unprecedented results.

Join Salary Finance for this thought leadership session to: 

• Understand the quantitative link between employee financial wellbeing and productivity/retention for the business
• Learn how to objectively measure and benchmark the financial wellbeing of your employees
• Understand how to build a comprehensive financial wellbeing strategy that meets the needs of all your employees, increases retention and improves productivity as well as engagement

Having a holistic view of the employee journey is critical to developing your people and fueling your company’s success. Unfortunately, without the right mindset, process and technology, information and data can remain captive in silos and key insights that could help improve engagement can be missed.

In this session, you’ll discuss how to:

• Better understand and improve employee engagement by moving to a more agile engagement strategy powered by data
• Harness survey data to reduce time to action and make better, more targeted changes impacting business outcomes

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chloe Stevenson.

Digitalisation is shaking enterprise infrastructure to its core, which provides HR the opportunity to lead the transformation. By leveraging fresh tools and enabling cutting-edge technologies, organizations can save time, eliminate error and generate revenue. The goal is to achieve big things with little disruption to employees.

In this session you will:

• Explore the key ways HR sparks success in a transformational journey
• Establish the best approach for HR to rethink and embrace a more strategic, digital role
• Learn to leverage technology to build truly meaningful impact on the organisation and it’s workforce

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chloe Stevenson.

81% of young people say they'd choose an employer that values open communication over one that offers perks like free food and gym membership, but 87% of employees worldwide say they are disengaged at work. There's a disconnect, and it means work isn't working.

Cyrus Akrami, Head of EMEA Marketing for Workplace by Facebook, and special guests will discuss:

• The importance of creating connected communities at work,
• Tips on how to navigate and communicate organisational change
• The reasons companies should obsess about their culture

Employees wants and needs are evolving, what was once a successful talent development strategy is now unlikely to retain your top talent. CHROs must start to think out of the box, such as partnering with NGOs.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Create volunteering programmes that provide individual development and benefit global communities
• Leverage your people’s fresh ideas and new ways of working after life-changing experiences
• Align your business’ values with today’s global landscape

Join Janine Chamberlin, LinkedIn Talent Solutions, as she discusses the dynamic talent market, and the importance of both creating strategic direction while also having the agility to pivot as circumstances change. This session will: 

• Discuss how organisations are charting the course of change within the talent market and how a business climate in flux is leading to some of the most dynamic adaptations we’ve seen in the talent market to date
• Explore how businesses can use innovation and ingenuity to create opportunities in the face of economic uncertainty, maintaining access to high quality talent pools
• Share how organisations can stay agile and on trend while pivoting their strategies to stay one step ahead in the competitive talent market

With every initiative, HR executives have an opportunity to advance the business through delivering an exceptional employee experience. Powered by intelligent cross-functional digital workflows that mirror the modern consumer-style experience, organisations can unlock more productivity, and increase retention through a human-centered experience – all while positioning themselves as employers of choice.

Join this boardroom session and discuss:

• Aligning overall people strategy to business outcomes
• Using consumer grade technology to build truly meaningful employee experiences 
• Keeping people at the center of all delivery decisions and enabling a self-service culture

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chloe Stevenson.

You’ve heard how to create an effective D&I strategy but how do you ensure that the culture you have built is sustainable in today’s disruptive business environment?

In this boardroom, you will:

• Share your own best practices for evolving a diverse and inclusive culture
• Explore the benefits to the business that come with a mature D&I strategy
• Discuss what is next for a workforce diverse in thought, skills and people

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chloe Stevenson.

CHROs today are tasked with creating corporate cultures that can withstand the uncertainty of changing business models, new technologies and shifting demographics. Hughes D-Aeth will share the BBC’s journey of driving people strategies committed to creating an inclusive workplace that reflects the UK population whilst delivering great content to their audiences.

Join to learn more about:

• How to engage leaders in promoting D&I efforts
• Successes and challenges around implementing a diverse and inclusive culture
• How a diverse and inclusive workforce can contribute to business growth

The forces of disruption continue to eat at the very foundation of large global enterprises and digital transformation remains the only known antidote. But, unfortunately, digital transformation is not sold in a bottle. For each company it is a unique experience that needs to be crafted by real people. And that is the big problem. There is no digital transformation without talent transformation, but who is supposed to pull that off?

Boylan will share:

• The game HR needs to play to transform itself just in time to play a strategic role in digital transformation
• Innovation drivers such as agility, assembly and output
• What the modern HR practice might look like if it were to borrow ideas from fast growing software companies and other disruptors

According to Harvard Business Review, recognising your employees is the simplest way to improve morale and employee engagement. As a result, employee recognition and its drivers should be a critical component to any comprehensive HR strategy. Recognition will not only increase your employee engagement, it also will drive positive customer experience and create a measurable “behaviour engine” across the entire organisation.

In this session, you will discuss:

• Key drivers of recognition such as skills, development and performance management
• Ways to leverage a recognition & engagement strategy to unite today’s diverse workforce
• The importance of integrating mobile-first strategy into any new HR tool

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chloe Stevenson, Program Manager.

 The performance-management landscape has shifted dramatically in the last few years. But as more organisations move away from traditional performance reviews and towards a culture of continuous feedback, challenges remain.

In this boardroom you will:

• Examine approaches to compensation with ongoing performance processes
• Explore ways of tracking goals and maintaining accountability beyond annual reviews
• Learn how to ensure managers are having the right conversations with their employees

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Chloe Stevenson.

Experience and brand perception are becoming increasingly important to retain consumers and drive profits. CHROs must ask: who do your customers interact with most? Who defines their experience? Your employees. 

Join this session to learn about:

• Aligning your people and customer strategies for a customer-centric approach
• Defining and developing brand advocates
• Mapping employee experience to positive customer experience and NPS scores