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Dallas CHRO Executive Summit
June 18, 2025 | Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel
June 18, 2025
Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Dallas'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:
Fast-tracking Leadership and Manager Development
Building an Organizational Culture through HR Technology Innovation
Strategic Workforce Planning and Change Management
Dallas 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
Joe Hudson
LURIN
Chief People Officer
Amy Messersmith
Builders FirstSource
Chief People Officer
Dan Sessa
Lennox International
EVP & CHRO
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 Dallas 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
Creating Transformative Job Transitions that Maximize Success for New Leaders
Job transitions are career-defining moments that can accelerate — or limit — success. In fact, ADP reports that 29% of recently promoted leaders leave within a month of taking on their new roles if they haven’t received essential support. Yet research also shows that when organizations take an insightful and deliberate approach to these transitions, it fuels extraordinary levels of employee satisfaction, loyalty, and fulfillment. Hear the findings from the 2025 Global Culture Report and participate in a discussion about how transformative job transitions help employees thrive, stay, and do their best work.
Join this session to learn:
- Why organizations should approach new leader job transitions with the same care and attention given to new hires
- What key factors are part of a transformative job transition experience
- How integrated recognition leads to greater empowerment and retention for newly promoted leaders
The AI Advantage — Leveraging Assessments for Leadership Excellence
Effective use of leadership assessments and AI-backed technology provide invaluable insights into developing current and future leaders and aligning leadership with business outcomes. Come together with your peers to explore how assessments can aid in your overall succession and workforce planning.
Join Heidrick & Struggles to discuss:
- Assessing, identifying and developing a diverse slate of successors
- Considerations for succession management in the current economic climate and the future
- Creating a scalable solution for leadership management that flexes with your business needs
Keynote Session
You Speak, They Swarm — The Power of Story in Reaching Your Audience
Speakers want action, not just applause. But busy executives don’t have time to learn complex communication models or esoteric storytelling processes — they need a simple, effective speaking framework that can help them not only connect with any audience, but also elicit real change. Enter the "Swarm Effect."
Join this session with Arthur Zards — a thought leader, TEDster and provocateur — to:
- Hone your skills in executive influence
- Adopt a more authentic and engaging approach to speaking
- Take your next presentation from “understandable” to “compelling"
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Location
Venue & Accommodation
Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel
MORE INFORMATION
Parking:
Day Valet: $20
On-Site Self-Parking: $15
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Renaissance Dallas Richardson Hotel at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 800-264-0359. Please mention Dallas Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of $179 USD (plus tax) is May 26, 2025.
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