New York CHRO Executive Summit

Hear from artist/author, Noah Scalin, on how to sustain innovation in both work and life. During this interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to practice key concepts immediately with a high-energy, hands-on workshop and a facilitated discussion to cull insights and applications.

In this interactive session you will:

• Explore personal leadership practices that foster a culture of innovation
• Discover “The Big 7” practices that you can use to continually learn and grow in your work
• Participate in a Creative Sprint® challenge that will keep participants creating and connecting after the workshop ends

In this networking lunch you have the opportunity to have relevant and topical conversations with your peers. The below questions are a guideline for you to start your table conversations.

• HR and business partnership
  • How are you aligning the overall people strategy to business strategy/ priorities?
  • What HR metrics does your board or executive team care about most? How do you use these metrics to link back to business strategy?
  • How do you leverage talent management technology and tools to achieve key business outcomes?
• Diversity and inclusion
  • In what ways are executives supporting the advancement of diverse groups?
  • How are you measuring the progress and improvement in your culture for diverse groups at your organization?
  • What are your most prominent diversity and inclusion challenges and successes?
• Learning and development
  • How has learning and development evolved at your organization? What does the workforce need in the 21st Century for L&D?
  • In this era of on demand fulfillment, how are you bringing a Netflix-like, consumer approach to learning within your organization? 
  • How are you aligning your learning programs with your business needs?
• Talent analytics
  • What are you hoping to solve for? What are your goals with analytics? What are the top things you’re hoping to get better at?
  • How are you utilizing analytics to better predict talent needs in the next six to twelve months?
  • What barriers are you facing as you try to move towards actionable analytics? How are you changing the culture of doubt around what HR can bring to the table on analytics?
• Digital transformation
  • How are you keeping people at the center of delivery decisions?
  • Are you utilizing AI in HR optimization? How are you leveraging technology to allow for optimization of HR?
  • How have emerging technologies played into the gamification of key initiatives like recruitment or employee engagement in your HR program?

As workplace demographics shift and the war for top talent continues, employee expectations for a connected and personalized experience continue to rise.  Employees expect to find more purpose at work and they become easily frustrated when their productivity is hindered on the job by non-value add, administrative tasks. In this fireside chat, Pat Wadors will share her insights and perspectives on:

• Building a leading-edge digital workplace that starts with a human-centered design
• Focusing on employee feedback, expectations and their moments that matter
• Creating a mindset shift within your organization to build the workplace of the future

Organizations are addressing diversity and inclusion challenges, but how much progress is being made? Two years ago, the Cornell team began developing data to better understand factors leading to a genuine sense of belonging in their workforce.
In this session, you will:

• Examine the importance of utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data to understand the impact of your D&I initiatives
• Address the complexity of how employees develop a genuine sense of belonging
• Understand the importance of moving beyond diversity awareness

In the next three years, as many as 120 million workers may need to be retrained or reskilled as a result of AI and intelligent automation. How should CHROs prepare their organizations?

In this session, Eric Bokelberg will:

• Examine the nature of the skills challenge facing organizations today
• Explain where the skills gap fits in the CEO and CHRO agendas
• Explore how AI can provide new insights into workforce capabilities and inform reskilling action

With competition for talent at its peak, the employee experience is the new black. Organizations must rethink how to create workplace cultures where people choose to join, engage, and stay.

In this boardroom, you will discuss:

• New ways to think about the employee experience
• What will differentiate your organization when attracting and retaining talent
• How recognition can help employees thrive at work
  
  

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 your event Program Manager.

Transformations are the new normal, but they are hard to get right. A strong culture and engaged employees are crucial in any change programs, putting CHROs at the center of transformation efforts.

In this boardroom you will discuss:

• Which elements of successful change programs are common across digital workforces
• How to continue to drive meaningful change through the long tail of a transformation
• Why transformations depend on a focus on culture 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 your event Program Manager Danielle Gregoire at Danielle.gregoire@evanta.com.

M&A growth can provide many opportunities, but without a proper plan organizations will struggle to drive business growth. After two large acquisition, Paul Marchand knew that integration and stabilization were key to Charter Communication’s transformation.

In this session, Marchand will explore the:

• Complexities and difficulties of a successful M&A
• Importance of digging into policies to properly communicate across the c-suite
• Multi-faceted approach to creating a successful culture

A strong organizational culture – one that supports, recognizes and, most importantly, celebrates different employees’ perspectives – can clearly differentiate its business from competitors. Companies that can relate their diverse and inclusive cultures directly to their business strategy will perform and grow. Understanding how a culture of recognition, today, and in the future, can go hand in hand with business strategy is vital for today’s CHRO.

In this session you will:

• Identify processes that help build a cohesive culture
• Explore how positivity-fueled environments can enable culture and contribute directly to company success
• Understand the data and insights that a human-centered workplace can provide

In a fast-paced, ever-evolving business landscape, having top talent isn’t enough: today’s leaders must be able to accelerate and adapt to changing strategies, priorities, and ways of working to ensure that their organizations can continue to stay ahead.

In this boardroom, you will:

• Discuss how to increase adaptability for quick, changing circumstances
• Explore how to learn quickly to improve continuously
• Share strategies that allow organizations to recover quickly and emerge stronger from setbacks

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 your event Program Manager, Danielle Gregoire at Danielle.Gregoire@evanta.com

 As a former human resources executive, Orlando Ashford knows something about shaping organizational culture and performance. Since joining Holland America Line as their president in 2014, the company has embraced a major shift toward authentic leadership and communication.

In this session, you’ll hear how this shift helped them:

• Break employee engagement records
• Deliver unprecedented revenue numbers
• Reach new heights with NPS scores