Washington, DC CHRO Community
Executive Summit
November 13, 2025 | Hilton Washington DC National Mall the Wharf
November 13, 2025
Hilton Washington DC National Mall the Wharf
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Washington, DC's top CHROs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CHROs today:
Cultivating leadership and management skills to drive success and promote continuous growth.
Develop a cohesive, inclusive culture aligned with company values to boost engagement.
Use technology to streamline HR processes and enhance decision-making.
Washington, DC CHRO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CHROs, For CHROs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Melissa Hurst
American Red Cross
CHRO
Ken Kovach
B.F. Saul Company & Affiliates
CHRO
Shawn Stokes
Events DC
SVP, Human Resources & Culture
Loretta Young Walker
MedStar Health
EVP & Chief People Officer
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CHRO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Washington, DC CHRO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
Agenda
Executive Boardroom Sessions
Redefining Leadership and Development in a Disrupted World
As AI, hybrid work and workforce transformation reshape organizations, leadership development is more critical and nuanced than ever before. In this roundtable, CHROs from top companies will discuss innovations like AI-powered coaching, skills-based pathways and inclusive leadership. Join us to share ideas and reimagine what tomorrow’s people leaders need to succeed.
In this roundtable, we’ll discuss:
- Leadership mandates driven by AI and agility
- Innovations in skills-based, inclusive development
- Measuring leader effectiveness and impact
Strengthening Culture — HR Strategies for Change
Ongoing change, evolving work models and economic pressures threaten employees' alignment with organizational culture. Savvy HR leaders guide the workforce through change, engagement and development to reinforce desired behaviors and foster employees’ culture alignment and interconnectedness.
Join this session to learn:
Measuring the success of changing initiatives
Driving a culture of transformation
Equipping all levels of the organization to embed culture values
Pathing to Performance — HR's Role in Career Roadmaps
Gartner research shows less than half of employees are satisfied with their organizations’ career development opportunities. Despite the need to retain and find key talent, the same research shows only 34% of organizations help in visualizing these paths to growth.
In this boardroom, CHROs will discuss best practices in:
Developing partnerships between employees and managers in career development
Coaching and career conversations to make employees feel supported
Building career paths that create opportunities for internal mobility
Retaining Talent in Times of Uncertainty
In an era of uncertainty, talent management leaders face pressing challenges with CEOs prioritizing growth, AI deployment challenges and shifting labor market pressures on talent strategies. How can HR leaders simultaneously retain talent and meet these goals?
Join this boardroom to discuss:
Modernizing talent management to meet organizational skill needs
Accelerating the readiness of the leadership bench
Growing talent for engagement and performance
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the Washington, DC CHRO Community Executive Summit.
Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.
Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
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