Southern California CHRO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner to launch the event with an evening of peer networking.

In this networking lunch you have the opportunity to hold relevant conversations with peers facing similar challenges and opportunities in a specific industry. The below questions are a guideline for you to start your topical table conversations.

• HR/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 21^st 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?

Creating a culture of belonging at work gives people purpose, meaning and sense of community. This is particularly relevant given how employee expectations have changed, especially when it comes to physical and digital workplace. Starbucks’ mission is to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time. It takes the same approach to the employee experience in an effort to create meaningful experiences for its employees.

In this fireside chat, Molly Hill and Sameer Chowdri will explore:

• Why a sense of belonging is important to employees
• What changing employee expectations mean for your culture
• How leaders can create a culture of belonging

With Sony Pictures Entertainment’s emerging talent leaving for career development opportunities elsewhere, Edie Givens harnessed insights from her 20 years in Silicon Valley to design a multi-faceted development program. 

 In this session, Givens will share: 

• How to create a relevant, in demand learning strategy leveraging qualitative and quantitative data
• How to get your executives on board to sponsor development
• Examples of courses that are in high demand in a transformative industry

Trends in health care cost reduction have come and gone, but health care navigation has steadily evolved to provide employers with significant savings and employees with measurably better outcomes.

In this session, you’ll hear:

• Data-driven insights in health care navigation
• The benefits of early intervention and preventive health care
• The impact of consumer navigation on preventive health care utilization

You’re hiring; so is the competition. To stand apart from the crowd, companies are employing tools from the marketing world to build compelling employer brands.

In this boardroom, you will discuss:

• Building on your employee value proposition to create an employer brand
• Attracting the right talent for your needs
• Leveraging your brand to drive your culture

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 PJ Marcello at PJ.Marcello@evanta.com.

While some organizations treat communication as an afterthought, it’s actually the most critical driver in getting employees engaged, aligned and excited about the priorities of your business. 

In this session, Keith Kitani will discuss:

• Communication strategies to drive business and cultural change
• How to improve employee program adoption
• Tactics to improve your employee communications

Employee health and wellness is a critical driver of organizational transformation, not simply a component of employee compensation.

In this boardroom, you'll discuss:

• How wellness can be the key in transforming an organization
• What benefits organizations are implementing to attract across the generations
• How employee turnover and retention can be impacted by corporate wellness

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 PJ Marcello at PJ.Marcello@evanta.com

You need flexibility your workforce. Meanwhile, there is an untapped army of workers looking for flexible or part-time working arrangements. 

In this boardroom, you’ll discuss:

• Rethinking workforce planning to incorporate gig workers
• Tailoring the employee experience for an on-demand workforce
• Creating an agile, on-demand pool of employees that can scale with your needs

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 PJ Marcello at PJ.Marcello@evanta.com

One of the best ways to check your assumptions in business is to know where you stand among your peers and allow them to challenge your assumptions. But even if you have a speed-dial full of trusted associates, this type of information sharing can be piecemeal and infrequent. 

This interactive session is your chance to:

• Baseline inclusion in your workplace
• Compare initiatives with a cross-section of your peers
• Walk away with actionable insights