In-Person

New York CHRO Community

Executive Summit

December 3, 2025 | Convene at 360 Madison

December 3, 2025
Convene at 360 Madison

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with New York'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.

Structuring the organization to optimize efficiency, agility, and alignment with strategic goals.

Develop a cohesive, inclusive culture aligned with company values to boost engagement.

New York 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

Mike Prutting

Bigelow Tea
Vice President, Human Resources

Bala Sathyanarayanan

Greif
EVP & CHRO

Kelly Slieter

AdvanSix
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 New York 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

Keynote Session

Culture Can Be Curated

Intentionally shaping culture can unlock passion, purpose, and performance. Drawing from her years at some of the world's largest organizations, Tchernavia Rocker will share how CHROs can be cultural architects and strategic co-pilots in an technologically-accelerated world.

Executives will learn:

  • How to set the conditions for cultural and business success
  • Why embracing AI is essential to future-proofing your workforce
  • How to lead with transparency, trust, and uncomfortable honesty


Breakout Sessions

Shaping The Human Side of AI

As AI continues to transform the world of work, HR leaders must be able to guide their organizations through rapid change. This session shares how Kyndryl’s CHRO is preparing the workforce by aligning skills with business needs, embedding AI into operations and fostering a culture of adaptability.

Join this session to learn how to:

  • Anticipate and respond to AI’s impact on roles
  • Use skills data to drive workforce decisions
  • Build a culture that embraces learning and change

Designing Through Disruption—Benchmarking the Toughest HR Decisions

 As companies restructure, CHROs face complex decisions around organizational design, talent strategy and the employee experience. In this session, benchmark your organizational resiliency, talent strategy and level of employee support.

Join your peers to explore:

  • Balancing business needs vs. the impact on your people
  • Aligning exit strategies with broader organizational values and goals
  • Strengthening morale, trust and performance among work


Executive Boardroom Sessions

Beyond Training — Solving the Challenge of Middle Management

The manager role has quietly become one of the most overextended in the enterprise, as the rate of change accelerates. CHROs must reimagine how the role is designed and supported to ensure managers can meet rising expectations without burning out.

This CHRO boardroom will cover:

  • Redesigning the manager role to reduce friction and increase impact
  • Reframing development around role manageability, not just skill gaps
  • Aligning HR systems to support managers as drivers of talent outcomes

Lessons In Leadership — Guiding Through Disruption

In today’s climate of constant disruption, CHROs are redefining resilience through adaptability, digital fluency, and purpose-driven leadership. CHROs must build future-ready organizations by embedding agility, enhancing employee experience and aligning talent strategy with business risk.

 Join this session to discuss:

  • Embedding adaptability and scenario planning in workforce planning
  • Building digital knowledge across HR functions
  • Utilizing  purpose as a driver of retention and engagement

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


Bridging The Talent-Strategy Divide


We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering

Gartner cares about the health and safety of our community. If you are feeling unwell, please refrain from attending the conference. At this time, Gartner does not have any health-related requirements in place for attendance. Should this change, we will follow up with updated guidance.

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Venue & Accommodation

Convene at 360 Madison
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