Vancouver, BC CHRO Executive Summit

Strategic succession planning is vital for organizational resilience, yet many CHROs don’t feel their organization is ready. Join this chat among peers who are at different levels of succession planning maturity for key insights into the process of identifying future leaders, aligning talent with business goals, and fostering a culture of continuous development.

Join this session to learn more about:

• Succession planning roadmap essentials
• Leadership alignment with strategy
•  Nurturing internal talent pipelines

CHROs will engage in focused discussions within industry-specific small groups to identify and address top priorities. This collaborative setting fosters the exchange of insights and strategies tailored to unique industry challenges, enabling leaders to drive organizational success.

Participants will benefit from:

• Peer experiences for innovative solutions
• Industry-tailored, actionable takeaways
• Cross-industry sharing of tested tactics

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

 In today’s fast-moving tech and security landscapes, disruption is inevitable—but it doesn’t have to derail your team’s performance. In this high-energy, 30-minute keynote, Dr. Vijay Pendakur will explore why disruption often leads teams to get stuck and how this stagnation threatens business success. Vijay will share his Alchemy of Talent model and explain how leaders can increase productivity and efficiency on their teams, even when it feels like we’re working in an endless earthquake!

Attendees will learn:

• Why disruption can lead to stuck teams and how to avoid it
• The critical impact of stuck teams on business performance and results
• How to make your teams more resilient, adaptable, and willing to learn from failure