Executive Summit

Organizations are transforming as the global landscape rapidly changes, and CHROs are at the center of it all, as architects of strategies to navigate the new terrain. Drawing on her doctoral research examining transitions during periods of multidimensional change, Dr. Lilicia Bailey explores what distinguishes successful CHROs who are agile in leading organizations, leaders and teams capabilities by inspiring confidence and delivering results through persistent disruption.

In this keynote, you'll explore how to:

• Incorporate leadership agility amid continuous change
• Comprehensively navigate organizational transitions
• Build organizational capabilities that sustain performance

What does workforce stability mean for manager effectiveness? Organizations have spent years developing leaders to navigate change, yet one workforce challenge remains largely invisible: financial instability. As expectations of managers continue to expand, leading organizations are rethinking how financial health influences engagement, performance and retention, and what that means for leadership effectiveness.

Attendees will leave with an understanding of:

• The business case to bring to a CFO: financial stress is a quiet tax on retention and productivity
• A four-level maturity model for financial health, and an honest read on the level their organization is actually on
• The three structural reasons for why good programs fail

CHROs are navigating two transformations: leading enterprise AI workforce transformation with the CEO while reinventing the HR function itself. Drawing on lessons from prior technology shifts and early AI adopters, learn how to meet rising productivity expectations while ensuring people remain the engine of performance, growth, and resilience.

Attendees will gain:

• Clear AI leadership framework for CHROs
• Vision for workforce planning and organization design
• An HR delivery model built to be AI-native

AI investments are outpacing workforce readiness. Skills gaps stall adoption and stifle collaboration between humans and agents. CHROs must collaborate across the organization to align workforce, technology and business strategy to maximize impact. 

Join this session to discuss:

• Strategies for reskilling and upskilling the workforce to thrive alongside AI
• Best practices for aligning business units around a unified AI and workforce strategy
• Approaches to redesigning operating models, roles and structures for human-AI collaboration

As workforce expectations evolve and organizations face ongoing pressure to do more with less, CHROs must balance employee wellbeing with business performance. Building resilience requires more than wellness programs. It demands intentional strategies that strengthen engagement, reduce burnout, and improve retention while supporting organizational goals.

In this session, you'll discuss how to:

• Identify workforce stressors that impact engagement and performance
• Strengthen workforce resilience through flexible talent strategies
• Build cultures of trust that improve retention and business outcomes

Connect with like-minded peers in a 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.

Leading organizations are redefining the partnership between Finance and HR by treating workforce investments with the same rigor applied to capital allocation and strategic planning. In this interactive session, Alliant Credit Union CFO Mark Lau and CHRO Diane Hughes will share the frameworks, governance practices, and decision-making approaches they use to connect workforce investments to measurable business outcomes.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Convert AI potential into measurable productivity gains through workflow redesign and capability development
• Build scorecards that connect talent, productivity, risk, and financial performance
• Create governance routines that strengthen accountability and improve resource allocation decisions

Organizations with strong generational synergy are 9x more likely to report great work, but only 26% of employees experience this advantage. Generational differences are not obstacles, they’re opportunities often hidden by stereotypes. Drawing on research from the O.C. Tanner Institute on 5,700 employees across 17 countries, this session reveals how to turn generational friction into a strategic advantage.

Join this session to hear new research on:

• Decode generational contracts shaping today’s workforce
• Unlock five drivers of generational synergy
• Align recognition, wellbeing, and technology to generational needs

When the unexpected hits, is your leadership bench ready to step up? The core challenge is this: it's hard to prepare for a future no one can predict. How, then, do organizations build a leadership bench that can flex with change they can't anticipate?

Join this boardroom to:

• Identify leadership gaps and succession risks
• Determine what leadership capabilities matter most
• Decide when to build, buy, or borrow leadership talent

Benefits complexity is accelerating, employee expectations are rising, and AI is no longer optional. The challenge for CHROs is navigating the growing complexity around choice, multiple providers and varied experiences with speed, clarity, and consistency at scale. We’ll explore how CHROs can balance high-tech innovation with a human touch approach to simplify the complexity with confidence for their people.Join this session to discover:

• Responsible strategies for leveraging unified intelligence to enhance benefits navigation
• Streamlining administration while supporting employees during the moments that matter
• Balancing automation with human expertise anchored in trust, compliance and care