4 Ways to Delete Bias From Your Job Postings

Not getting qualified applicants to your job postings? It probably has something to do with those skill bullets. If you're staring down a laundry list of requirements and qualifications you're not even sure matter, don't miss this live rewrite session with Katrina Kibben and Caitlyn Metteer.

Bring a job post that's hard to fill or low retention and rewrite your post live. They will be offering live, rapid-fire rewrites. Yes, live rewriting and advice! Just wait. The best part happens after the session when you'll see how a few simple bullets can transform the performance of your job posting.

Unlocking Empathy and Psychological Safety at Work

Work is playing an increasingly important role in our lives and people's emotional wellbeing, and sense of psychological safety is critical to how they show up, whether they stay and do their best work. In this session bestselling author and 3-times TEDx speaker, Arthur Woods will lead an interactive session to uncover the path of psychological safety at work and how to mobilize our teams inclusively. In the session we will:

⚡️ Understand the emotional intelligence and psychological safety at work
⚡️ Enhance your understanding of emotions and the role they play at work
⚡️ Deepen the effectiveness in the way we communicate with our teams as leaders

Driving Employee Engagement with Team Problem-Solving in the Era of Remote Work

Join this collaborative problem-solving workshop to learn about building employee engagement and happiness in a post-pandemic era of remote and hybrid work. You will learn about Kintone’s unique problem-solving methodology and other practices used to foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn:
* How to create a digital space for people to openly communicate with their teams
* How to use the team problem-solving methodology to resolve challenges (even when remote)
* How to encourage individuals to take responsibility and raise issues as they occur

This workshop is strongly recommended for HR leaders and managers looking for a better way to resolve team issues and facilitate communication, but also build a culture of teamwork.

Breaking Down the Communication Barrier with Humor

Do you ever find yourself struggling to start a conversation either off-the-cuff with another colleague, or even in your personal life? Come learn how to break the ice during this fun-filled interactive improv workshop. Hosted by Comedian/Performer/Teachers, Darren Pitura and Shannon Calcutt from the Vegas Theatre Hub, come find out what “YESS!!”, ‘Freeze!’, and other activities are!

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Funding the Future of HR: The Venture Capital Perspective

When HR Transform launched in 2018, there were only a handful of VCs committed to funding of HR tools & technology. As Covid shocked employers into rethinking and reinvesting into HR, VCs have awakened to the massive opportunities for startups to serve these needs. The result is a great uptick in dollars flowing from venture capital into startups to transform the future of employers, employees, and the HR function itself. This panel will discuss the current funding environment, highlight the key trends of greatest interest to investors, and provide advice to the founders building in this space.

Ethical Implications of New Tech

The data available to HR is immense and ever-increasing. Emerging software using AI/ML can sort through the data, offering insights, decision support, and process automation that accelerates hiring, improves employee experience, and informs decision-making. However, the algorithms applied can be opaque, at best. The results can incorporate unintended, hidden biases or discriminatory impact. This panel of sophisticated HR leaders will reflect on how they are grappling with these issues. and their lessons learned that can be useful to others. We are fortunate to also have as an additional panel member an EEOC commissioner who will provide a regulator’s perspective.

A New World of Work

The only constant over the past two years has been change. With uncertainty in global economics, geo political risk, unraveling the endemic phase of COVID, and increased innovation in technology, the velocity of change increases. As we look back and look ahead, we need to understand the new dynamics at play. These dynamics have created new paradigms for how we work and live. Let’s dive into these new impactful shifts and evolutions. What are the most pressing challenges and greatest opportunities that we, as people leaders, face? Where can we make the biggest impacts and drive change in the year ahead? Join us to dig into these questions and more.

The Decentralized Workforce and The Rise of Web3

Everyone seems to be talking about Web3 and NFTs. But what are they, and how will they impact the world of work? This session will demystify the Web3 economic opportunities through the lens of business and policy with a panel of esteemed experts. Together we will cover how decentralized business models are impacting working styles, smart-contracts and the evolution of incentives, and provide practical takeaways you can implement to accelerate your Web3 learning curve.

Building Talent for the Innovation Frontier: Space

Space exploration is inspiring and exciting but today there are more space driven innovations happening here on Earth than ever before. Those innovations bring forward solutions in all areas of our lives, including new materials, healthcare, agriculture, transportation, public safety, computer technology, and more. What does it take to spark someone’s passion about space so they can translate their big dreams into an exciting career, successful business, and life enhancing legacy? What experiences, exposures and education are needed to build the talent with the skills, mindset and character to pursue solving today’s problems, and be able to address tomorrow’s more even complex challenges? How might we collaborate across geographies, cultures and public, commercial and nonprofit sectors to build a vibrant talent ecosystem that feeds on its own successes and creates opportunities for growth, mobility and development? 

Join this conversation to learn about the opportunities of space innovation and the role HR can play in building the talent that will take humanity forward in the innovation frontier.

Just the Two of Us: CEO & CPO Partnerships That Work

Join Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz and CHRO David Hanrahan for a dynamic conversation about the invaluable leadership lessons learned over the past year that sparked a new found connected culture and total reinvention of the future of work.

Choosing Your Adventure: How People Leader’s Roles Change in the Startup-to-IPO Ecosystem

Curious to explore how the People function changes from early-stage (Seed and A) through to Pre-IPO? Or what the role of a venture capital Talent Partner is? And how HR consultants get into the mix? Join us for an highly informative (and very candid!) discussion with leaders from Stitch Fix, Blue Bottle Coffee, Policygenius, and Digital Ocean who have been "in the trenches" at early, mid-, late-, and pre-IPO organizations: the types of problems they face, how their roles evolve, why they prefer one stage over others, etc. We'll also layer on the perspectives of HR consultants and VCs from Renegade, M13, and Anthos. If you've ever considered joining a startup at a different stage of growth and wondered what it would be like, you'll want to check this panel out!

Why Supporting Employees is Good for Evolving Company Culture

Culture is a manifestation of the people who are at the company at that time. It cannot be something that's stuck in time, it's constantly evolving. Modern Health and Eventbrite will discuss the importance of supporting employees' mental health and the role this plays in creating a company culture that grows in strength as companies scale and face new challenges.

Transforming Venture Capital Through People-First Investment

This panel brings together some of the freshest new voices in venture capital to share their perspective on the future of investing and its impact on the future of work. We'll talk about why the traditional model isn't working anymore, and how the investment industry needs to change to meet the demands of a new world of work. We'll gather their sage wisdom about everything from why they're investing in previously-underserved people and products, to how they see their role in shaping young companies, to what they want to see from the HR leaders at the executive table. Join us for real talk, inspiration, tangible takeaways, and some insider stories, too (we know you want to know the real deal behind the deals).

Recruiting Analytics & Quality of Hire Deconstructed – Using Data to Build Diverse Winning Teams

Only 1 in 3 companies believe they are using data effectively in their recruiting processes. With the average TA organization utilizing 9 different, disconnected systems it is no wonder why accessing reliable data for recruiters is so challenging. From optimizing visibility into top-of-funnel recruiting analytics all the way through to understanding and quantifying Quality of Hire, our companies need access to better technology to make better data-driven hiring decisions to increase the odds of hiring success. Join us as we do a deep dive into Modern Recruiting Analytics and How to Quantify Quality of Hire in order to build diverse winning teams.

What Will Happen to Compensation in the Battle of Remote, Hybrid, and In-Office Teams?

In light of the Great Resignation and a Post-COVID era, the panel will discuss where salary rates, employee churn, and employee locations are trending. We will also examine the concept of "discounting compensation by location" by examining the landscape of remote work today. Finally, we'll try to answer the question of which model of modern day work will prevail: remote, hybrid, or in-office? Join us to find out!

Ask Me Anything: EEOC Commissioner

EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling will sit down for a special Ask Me Anything roundtable with a small group of attendees. There are a limited number of spots available, so please apply to attend.

The EEOC enforces federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against job applicants and employees based on protected characteristics. Most employers are covered by EEO laws, and they address all types of work situations — hiring, firing, promotions, harassment, training, wages, and benefits. The Commissioner is open to any questions you may have regarding the EEOC. This is an extraordinary opportunity to connect directly with one of the leaders of the federal agency whose oversight most affects HR operations.

The Morphing of Work-Life Balance Into Work-Life Integration

Companies have always chosen what areas of their employees’ personal life they get involved in, with the main investment typically in traditional fitness. As today’s changing employee landscape, the ‘Great Resignation’, and the ‘She-Cessation’ in full effect - there’s a shift from work-life balance to work-life integration. However, this is only successful when the employer assumes responsibility for multiple aspects of an employee’s life, in both their work and personal life. Learn how to integrate your employees’ work-life.

New Age Benefits

The days when traditional benefits were enough to attract top talent are over. The bar has been reset and expectations include employee benefit packages that care for the whole human – from financial wellness to physical wellbeing to to family support. Join the founders of companies representing these new age benefits as they dive in and discuss what employees want to see and how companies can best position themselves to be an employer of choice.

Building Tech Talent Thru Partnership

Tech talent is in high demand. With a 1.5% national unemployment rate, it is harder than ever to get the skills you need to build that next new revenue generating or expense reducing solution. Therefore, we need to do things differently to gain the diverse talent that is needed to drive our organizations forward. Learn how regions and organizations across the US are finding ways to work together to increase both the capacity and diversity of our tech talent.

Going Global, Feeling Local: The Distributed Future of Tech Work

The future of work is distributed. But what challenges and opportunities can leaders anticipate in this new era? Hear from Oyster’s Tony Jamous (CEO), Ellen Silver (President) and Mark Frein (Chief People Officer) in a fireside chat exploring what’s next in the world of global employment and tech.

Join Tony, Mark, Ellen and our special guest and moderator, Ruth Umoh (Leadership Editor at Fortune) as they discuss growth, distributed culture-building, and empowering diverse communities through distributed work. Plus, learn how emerging employment trends will shape this new era and why global employment is the key to democratizing the workplace.

Parenthood @ Work: A Future of Work Documentary

The future of work impacts everyone. In the documentary, we speak with leaders at some of the world's most forward-thinking organizations, and also individuals very immediately impacted by the challenges of this time (pandemic, unemployment, racial inequity, and the changing nature of work) to share how organizations and people are impacted by and responding to this change.

Paying It Forward: The Important Role of Social Impact

Social impact can create the right connections between the company, its customers and the community. HR plays an important role in designing a meaningful social impact approach that is true to the company and inspires employees/customers to take action. Hear practical ways to design social impact strategies, amplify/ngage employees and customers, plus a few ways to step up and commit to making social change through pledging profits, product/services, and people as well as pledging proceeds from private equity IPOs. Join the panelists in Office Hours to learn more or seek their advice on how to take action.

Innovation Showcase

The work technology landscape is ever-changing and continually reinventing itself in ever-exciting, ever-promising ways. Join us for our Innovation Showcases, where a curated group of innovative entrepreneurs will look to have you say “Wow. That is what I never knew I always needed,” in this series of show-and-tell demos.

Lessons Learned from Transformation

Two accomplished leaders, two stories, two in-depth conversations that will explore both the personal and business side of transformation. The common thread – human relationships, being humble and authentic, and thinking and acting like adults is the secret sauce that transcends transformational change capacity. These two leaders will share their experiences, insights and major lessons learned from 20+ years driving HR reinvention efforts and reinventing themselves!

The Remote Employee Engagement Crisis. What Can Employers Do?

Companies are in an employee engagement crisis. How do we keep them engaged when 67% of them work from home? This will continue to be a struggle for employers especially when the “Hidden Resignation”, “Great Resignation”, “Great Reshuffling” are real and needs to be addressed. In the pre-Covid world, taking care of employees and keeping them engaged were somewhat easier when employees were going into a physical location. But now that most the knowledge workforce is remote, how do companies keep employees engaged and productive? Come hear the Chief People Officer of FeedbackLoop, Marjorie Ajero (ex BetterCloud, ex Thrillist), and CEO of Sparrow, Deborah Hanus, discuss what they’re seeing and what employers could consider.

Supporting Diverse Teams by Addressing Unspoken Financial Challenges

Finances can be considered a taboo topic, which employees typically don’t talk to their People teams about. While your total compensation package is likely developed with equality in mind, your employees have different levels of financial literacy, and therefore may be at a disadvantage when it comes to making use of their salary and benefits.

Sheila Krueger and Lynee Luque will share how they address financial topics in their benefits and DEI programs at Zoom and NerdWallet. Will Peng will share how financial wellness can be inclusive and meet employees where they are.

HealthTech Innovation: Changing the Face of Healthcare

New health technologies provide an opportunity to reinvent the care experience — far beyond increasing access and simply duplicating the historical care setting to bring forward better experiences, improved outcomes, and lower costs for you and your employees. However, creating a strategy to vet and integrate innovative technologies into your benefits ecosystem can prove challenging. Hear from innovators at the forefront of these new solutions and benefit leaders who can provide practical information on making it work for your organization.

Making Learning Soar

What are the must-haves of learning in 2022? Investment in learning and talent development is an essential ingredient of every company’s engagement and retention plans. Expectations have shifted at all levels of the organization, from individual contributors to executives. During our discussion, we’ll explore how to elevate learning as a company priority and the value of learning as a retention tool. We’ll consider how to avoid the L&D pitfalls of the past and the value of applying layered learning in the workplace, whether employees are in-person, distributed, or hybrid.

Office Hours

Stop by to connect with a curated group of investors. No appointment necessary. Just find the investor you want to meet and visit their “office.”

Workplace Equity: Compensation Strategy

The 2021 Compensation and Culture Report found that 58% of U.S. employees would consider switching jobs for more pay transparency. What is the right level of transparency? What is the impact of a distributed workforce on your approach to transparency and equity? What strategies and policies are you using to ensure and measure a fair and equitable workplace? We’ll answer these questions and more with experts who embed workplace equity into their core business.

Talent Acquisition: What It Takes in 2022

Are you tired of hearing, ‘The Great Resignation?’ So are we. In this session, we’ll cut to the chase. We’ll explore tactics, best practices and strategies of talent acquisition professionals and VC talent leaders working with today’s most innovative companies. They’ll dive into what it takes to have a competitive advantage in today’s talent market AND how you engage and retain that talent.

Reimagining Work: A New Operating Model

We’ve been given a unique opportunity to think about work differently. The struggles that we’ve experienced have yielded innovation and invention. In this session, we’ll learn from leaders who are building new operating models and leaning into change to reinvent the way work gets done, instead of simply translating the methods of the past. They’ll dive into the most innovative ways to approach workflows, processes, technologies and beyond that we should consider in this new world. And, you’ll walk away with new strategies and insights to help your organization work smarter.

Modern Leadership

Leaders of today’s organizations need to be ready to lead in a new, evolving workplace that wants flexibility and freedom above all else. With the avalanche of change, the priorities and behaviors that define leadership will look different. What are the key ingredients in the special sauce that make leaders successful in the future of work? We’ll explore this and more with people and talent leaders who have led teams at companies like Adobe, Carta, Tesla, and Netflix.

Health Equity, Inclusivity and The Talent War: The Case for Fertility and Family-Forming Benefits

As the war for talent continues, it’s more important than ever to offer competitive benefits that support a diverse workforce. In this fireside chat, Carrot Fertility CEO and Co-founder Tammy Sun will sit down with Leah Sutton, SVP Global Human Resources at Elastic, and Rehab Hammad, Senior Manager of Benefits at Snap, Inc., to discuss the growing demand for fertility and family-forming support, how to ensure true inclusivity and global benefits parity, and the role these critical benefits play in health equity.

How to Think About Your People Tech Stack

As the world of work shifts, the tools and technologies we use to support that work has to shift. Companies are looking at ways to build a scalable infrastructure of technology systems to support, grow and accelerate development of their people. And, the role of automation is front and center. How do you best leverage technology and automation to keep people focused on the work that only you, as humans, can do? What are the technology systems that you need as you grow and how do you think about building out a tech stack to suit your unique organization?

How to Leverage Your Culture and Learning Strategy in this Next Era of Work

Every people leader is reimagining and re-writing the organizational playbook for how we work. Join Udemy’s SVP of People Cara Brennan Allamano and Cleo's SVP People & Culture Nikki Hampton as they explore Udemy’s playbook and ways for other companies to write theirs. We know it’s no longer about the donuts or free beer, but how do we navigate this organizational shift and sustain it? Cara will share stories of how they are recommitting to their organizational values, clarifying behaviors, and doubling down on learning as the driver of change in order to maintain a world class employee experience at Udemy. This session will provide leaders with insight into how to continue to leverage culture as a critical component to success in this next era of work.

The Evolving Role of the Office

As companies contemplate RTW, remote, and hybrid work, one of the biggest components, from a financial and cultural impact standpoint, is the role of a physical space. How should you be thinking about office space and the in-person experience? What does it mean to design a space that inspires collaboration where people want to be? Where does the responsibility for this work lie in the organization? Join leaders in real estate, design and workplace experts as they answer these questions and more.

Ending the Guesswork – The Future of Mental Healthcare is Personalized

We’re in the middle of a worldwide mental health epidemic, and can’t afford trial and error. That’s why Precision Mental Healthcare is such a significant advancement for the mental healthcare industry. In this session, learn how this is driving innovation at large employers like General Mills and DocuSign, and how these innovations can make mental health more accessible for everyone while improving employee productivity, health, and wellbeing.

Using Cross-Disciplinary Expertise to Cultivate Employee Success

Employee Success. Voice of the Employee. eNPS. Employee Experience. The list of cross-disciplinary frameworks applied to people organizations is extensive. The Great Resignation -- better called The Great Reckoning -- made clear that our people are the most powerful, adaptable, and sustainable drivers of organizational success, while also being intensely frustrated, underutilized, and disengaged. Our panelists will share frameworks with origins in other disciplines that they've used to unleash the potential of our people while positioning our organizations for success in this new, people-first environment.

Getting Women Back to Work: What’s Next?

Women in the United States have lost more than 5.4 million jobs since February 2020. This is a staggering number that cannot be ignored. What needs to be done to support and enable women in the workplace? What can employers do to support today’s workforce and lay the foundation for success of the future workforce? We’ll learn from the NYC Economic Development Corporation, who’s leading progressive efforts to support women at work, Reboot Accel, and VMG Partners. You’ll gain the data and insights to understand the gravity of this challenge and ways you can support women to stay in the workforce.

Revealing the Untapped Power of Data

Increasingly, we are relying on data to inform and drive our decision making in this remote and distributed environment. Some argue that there’s no digital without data. From financial planning to office planning to skills gap analysis, data is at the heart of how we approach many of our toughest challenges. In this session, we’ll explore how data can guide decision making and unlock key insights that inform how we support our people and organizations.

Thinking Beyond the Salary: Making Benefits Count

The worldwide shortage of talent is making it difficult for organizations to find quality candidates. To engage current and future workers, HR leaders are crafting competitive employee benefits packages—ones that include bonuses, professional development, a flexible work environment, equity, retirement, health benefits, and holistic wellness programs.

Yet, the majority of employees underestimate and undervalue their benefits, leading to disengaged employees and turnover.

A financial wellness program can enhance your employee experience, and connect the dots between total compensation and personal finances. Learn how financial wellness drives benefit adoption, improves engagement, supports employees’ life goals, and builds long-term wealth.

Quit Looking Backwards – The Power of Community to Propel People Leaders and Our Teams Forward

There’s no going back to the workplace of the past. We are now challenged with unifying distributed workforces. What’s right for nimble high-growth scaling orgs most likely will not fit the needs of a large corporation or mixed populations with contract and full-time employees. So how do we connect the dots without being siloed on a lonely island? We leverage the power of community, for ourselves and for our organizations. This panel discussion will provide insights on how People Leaders are using community to share tactical strategies to support their day-to-day roles, elevate their personal growth and leverage community to support their teams and organizations.

Onboarding New Hires: The Early Intersection of Retention

Retention strategies are more critical today than ever before, and that all starts with offer-to-onboard experiences. Which is why for those who are getting hired today, especially those new to an organization, the offer-to-onboard experience is so important. It’s no surprise that candidate finalists want responsiveness during the hiring process. Based on the latest Talent Board candidate experience benchmark research, candidates who get multiple options to communicate goals, meet team members and get questions answered prior to their start date, their willingness to refer others and increase their relationship with their new employer (or current employer) increased dramatically. This panel discussion will cover the importance of an engaging onboarding process and it's early intersection of retention.

Beyond the Championship Ring: Redefining Your EVP in a Competitive Talent Landscape

Join three HR executives leading talent in the sports industry for a dynamic conversation. While their teams compete for championships on the field, ice, and court, these women are focused on redefining their organization’s Employee Value Proposition (EVP) in one of the fiercest markets for talent. Beyond the Championship Ring explores how and what HR leaders should be focused on to compete for talent, as expectations from employees have changed around what they need and want from their employer.

Psychedelic Therapy: Understanding the Next Employee Benefit

Two factors have paved the way for this conversation. First, the stark reality of our mental health crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic; and its impact on our workforce. And second, the proven safety and efficacy of psychedelic therapy; including the upcoming milestone of making MDMA a medicine.

This conversation will feature HR and business leaders that are already working to introduce psychedelic-assisted therapy as an employer-sponsored, insurance-covered treatment available to employees that stand to benefit. We’ll be holding a discussion to help all HR leaders understand how and why this employee benefit is set to revolutionize our workforces – and beyond.

DEI: Sustaining Effort and Change

What are the behaviors and actions that we need to take to make meaningful change? How do we define success, measure our DEI efforts and sustain those efforts over time? We must live true to the pledges we’ve made to ourselves, our teams, and our organizations. Let’s explore these topics and more through conversation with DEI influencers and people execs that not only talk the talk but walk the walk!

Innovation Showcase

The work technology landscape is ever-changing and continually reinventing itself in ever-exciting, ever-promising ways. Join us for our Innovation Showcases, where a curated group of innovative entrepreneurs will look to have you say “Wow. That is what I never knew I always needed,” in this series of show-and-tell demos.

Navigating Office Politics When There Is No Office

Every leadership team has some office politics. This could range from harsh debates and stone cold passive aggressive behavior to conflict averse niceness and kicking the can down style decision making. These dysfunctional team dynamics are even more heightened in a remote workplace. Come join this networking workshop to meet & connect with other leaders while also hearing the biggest culture challenges facing top virtual teams. Learn the conflict resolution frameworks & tips that work in a remote setting, and brainstorm ideas together to take back to your people.

Building Cohesive Culture Across Hourly and High Tech

The world is increasingly full of businesses that depend on both hourly workers and highly technical talent to succeed, and the Great Resignation is creating pressure on both sides. How can you create a cohesive culture and talent strategy that is tailored to these very different contexts and inspires and retains them equally, and make your company greater than the sum of its parts? Join this session to hear Jevan Soo Lenox share his lessons learned from his time at Stitch Fix, Square, and Blue Bottle Coffee.

Healing Trauma With Design Thinking

Design thinking has emerged as an ubiquitous, repeatable and reliable process for driving innovation in a modern business context. One of the ways this is possible is through intentional and controlled induction of stress states on the body to drive innovation ideation. Through learning to harness stress, turn it on and off, and leverage it for problem solving, survivors are able to gain a new relationship with their trauma and foster positive self image and healing. Pulling from my own career experience as a top design thinking educator and innovation consultant and navigating my own personal healing journeying as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, I will explore the positive linkage between these methods and how other survivors can harness the body’s defense against trauma for their own self-healing.

Transformational Upskilling

As we continue navigating a shifting work landscape, strategies to attract and retain talent are top of mind for organizations. What does it take to make a company a great place to work? Data shows that when employees have internal opportunities to deepen their skills or gain new ones, it benefits both the company and the employee. But do traditional tactics still move the needle in keeping employees engaged and attracting top, diverse talent? Uber’s Talent Acquisition and Mobility leaders share how the company is taking a fresh approach to upskilling and reskilling current and future employees—at the intersection of corporate growth and social responsibility.

Evolving Workplace Norms

Times have totally changed. Employees are demanding more from their employers. Employers should be worried about the retention of employees in this "great resignation" where flexibility and freedom are crucial for employees feeling valued. Join this session, where 8 time people leader, Mai Ton, gives us a preview of some of the new norms and defaults for a new way of working together, for everyone in any industry.

Inspiring Culture & Communicating Values Through Storytelling

Pixar Animation Studios is inspiring culture and community through values and storytelling to re-energize the Pixar community during and post-pandemic. Fresh approaches to building culture and leadership in remote and hybrid work environments. Explore innovative practices around developing values and leadership practices that make a difference and employees feel empowered to do their best work.

Post-Traumatic Growth and Thriving in Uncertainty and Change

Post-Traumatic Growth is a theory that explains how people can experience extraordinary trauma and find growth in the aftermath. Our panelists are experienced in helping their organizations and the people they lead find post-traumatic growth regardless of the context; whether capitalizing on market opportunities for massive growth, or responding to generational disruptions, like COVID-19. They'll share their experiences and highlight how in each scenario, the ability to grow and thrive starts with the way we equip and unleash our people to drive the organization forward.

The Future of Talent Assessment

Among the most profound changes in the world of work over the past two years has been the need to re-define exactly what great performance looks like. When people are interviewing and getting hired without ever meeting their manager in person, when they are working asynchronously around the world, and when "facetime with the boss" is no longer a thing, how do the best companies measure, develop and hire for the best talent? Are there new skills to be recruited for, and ways of hiring differently? What biases can we eliminate and where are there risks for new biases? In this session you will hear from industry leading recruiters and people leaders on what the next wave of performance assessment looks like for the remote and distributed teams of the future.

Focus on the “S” in ESG: Fad or Fact?

Issues under the ""Environmental, social, and governance (ESG)” agenda are no longer an afterthought but rather central to organizational reputation and financial results. All types of stakeholders are increasingly paying attention to the disclosures and reporting of such issues. There has, however, been limited attention paid to how the ESG performance impacts one of the most important stakeholder groups - the workforce. Join this session to understand how organizations can link the ESG issues to their workplace strategies and practices, engage its workforce in impactful ways, and ensure ESG does not become another “fad” that looks great in marketing but has no meaningful impact.

Modern Enterprise Caregiving Benefits: The Cycle of Life

The pandemic has shattered any resistance that may have existed around the blending of work and home life. That means employers are forced to take a more individualized and holistic approach to supporting every facet of their employees and families. During this session, we’ll dig into what it looks like to provide 360 degree support for your people. What are the benefits that you need to consider to address the full lifecycle from fertility to family planning to eldercare? We’ll explore these areas and more!

Balancing Performance and Purpose Without Losing the Soul of the Organization

What practices and behaviors drive organizations with purpose-driven, high performing teams? What role does leadership and the people team play in balancing mission and values with productivity and business outcomes? Join leaders from Allbirds, Patreon and Sprinklr to gain insider tips on what it takes to find the right balance between mission and business outcomes. You’ll learn from their experiences with high-growth organizations and the complexities that come with scaling values and mission-driven teams.

Emerging Technologies Impact on FoW

The metaverse, augmented reality, virtual reality, AI, machine learning, and the list goes on. How do we make sense of the newest technologies, their implications on our work and personal lives and whether to experiment with them as people leaders? Join this discussion to discover new technology, explore the latest trends and learn how to evaluate these tools to determine if they are right for the future of your organization.

The Chief Communicator

Let’s be honest, most of us probably learned the importance of an internal communications function and/or strategy the hard way. An internal communication strategy done well can engage, motivate, and align your employees to your organization. Given the people/HR team’s role in working most closely with an organization’s employees, it’s easy to see how these responsibilities can fall to the HR/people team. Come ride along with this panel of experienced executives as we discuss the road to curating an impactful internal communications strategy, complete with our hard-earned lessons learned so you can avoid them.

Unlocking Human Potential: How to Equip Teams to Thrive Amid Disruption

In today's continuously disruptive, rapid-change business environment, talent leaders need to rethink how to support employees who are faced with an increasing number of challenges. These challenges can derail employees’ ability to reach their greatest potential. Collaboration and communication, foundational traits in all effective teams, were once considered soft skills. But as talent leaders grapple with a host of internal and external challenges — The Great Resignation, a global pandemic, social issues, even the possibility of war — it is imperative that organizations equip their employees and leaders with the skills they need to face challenges in their personal and professional lives.

How and Why Employer Brand Strategy is The Ultimate Competitive Advantage in 2022

What is the future of the employee value proposition and your employer brand? As the key answer to acquiring and retaining talent during the Great Resignation, how is your company taking advantage of defining its unique narrative. How have your EVP/ EB merged as Work and Life merged during the pandemic. What are the tangible versus intangible benefits that you should consider as you build out your employer brand?

During this session, we’ll tackle these areas and beyond. We’ll share how values-driven organizations are approaching the employer brand, how to define an EVP that will attract the candidates you want and how you can institute these next practices into your own organization.

New Ways of Orchestrating Work

We’ve seen the employment model evolve over time from full time and hourly workers to the freelance and gig economy. More recently, we’re witnessing numerous models, like job sharing and project based staffing, that are designed to help companies attract the most competitive talent. The benefits of these models goes beyond attracting talent to increasing diversity and creating greater opportunities for innovation in teams. Together, we’ll learn from innovative people leaders and companies paving the way for the next employment model revolution.

From Cancel Culture to Community Accountability

The term "cancel culture" has taken on a life of its own since it first gained steam amidst the #MeToo movement. From being championed as a way to exert necessary forced accountability for toxic or abusive behaviors to being criticized as a way to silence different perspectives, the term has many of us divided. In this session, we'll unpack what it really means to "cancel" someone for bad behavior at work, where forced accountability has been proven necessary or useful, and identify opportunities and ways to take a different approach to encouraging a culture of self-driven and communal accountability in order to drive more inclusive, equitable workplaces.