This session will focus on advancing participants’ understanding of how organizations strategically position themselves for competitive advantage. It will emphasize the importance of aligning an organization’s customer value proposition to customers’ unmet needs and of investing in core competencies that enable the organization to deliver on this value proposition consistently and repeatedly. Participants will also consider how influences and trends in the external environment shape organizations’ strategic opportunities and threats over time.

This session will focus on the strategic role played by HR in defining and supporting the employee contributions required to sustain an organization’s core competencies and competitive advantage. It will emphasize the importance of the causal map linking HR investments to business requirements. Frameworks will be introduced to ensure the development of comprehensive HR interventions, discuss how to strategically target HR investments based on workforce partitioning, and consider the role of HR interventions in supporting organizations’ responses to external pressures.

The session will focus on how organizations are using analytics to guide HR decision-making. It will cover several examples of HR analytics in action, discuss common obstacles and how to address them, and review key frameworks. reasons to embrace digital transformation. Equipped with a foundational understanding of people analytics, participants will be positioned to rigorously examine common HR challenges related to hiring top talent, engaging the workforce, managing retention, and more.

The session will discuss the value of (and how to assess) alignment of the broader HR function with the organization’s business strategy. It will cover the importance of (and challenges associated with) internal alignment with the HR function itself.

In this session, you will learn about the possibilities of and the future of AI and explore strategies to preserve human dignity and agency while embracing the benefits of the technology. You will then explore the key questions that boards of directors need to consider to govern the use of AI effectively within their organizations, and you will contemplate how AI will impact the role of HR leadership and affect the future of jobs.

This session will examine current trends and challenges in the field of talent development. It will present a talent development framework and use several case studies to assess how the dimensions are currently being applied within organizations. The session will also present ideas to align future talent development initiatives.

The session focuses on tackling the challenges of a diverse workforce. Moving beyond diversity towards equity and belongingness.

The session will discuss research related to evoking high performance in organizations. At the end of the session, participants will know about research and theory on performance psychology, and will also learn concrete strategies that they can try in their own organization to evoke high performance.

This session will focus on identifying and resolving conflicts within the workplace. Effectively managing any conflict starts with fully diagnosing it, and that’s where this session begins.

In this session, participants will be guided by Dr. Edward Rogers (Ex-Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA and a leading thinker of our times) to gain insights into why we sometimes stumble in our judgments, especially when faced with multiple complex demands. Dr. Rogers will illustrate leadership learnings from the NASA Apollo mission to the moon and the tragic loss of the Columbia space shuttle. The session will also help participants harness the power of both successes and failures as valuable learning opportunities, cultivating a growth mindset that propels them forward.

Too often, conversations around the Future of Work have too little to do with the future and even less to do with work. This session aims to re-center the conversation around work as opposed to technology and to underscore the ways in which C-suite leaders—not the technology itself—can determine the best outcomes for their organizations and for society at large.

This session will examine key organizational structures and HR policies that facilitate knowledge generation and development. Core concepts and theories will be demonstrated using examples from prominent organizations.

This session will provide opportunities for self-reflection, practical application, and a forum for sharing experiences and feedback to foster learning while advancing oneself as a change leader.

Navigate complex stakeholder relationships, build consensus, and drive positive change. By the end of this session, you will possess the tools and insights to navigate the power dynamics of leadership with confidence and integrity, achieving your objectives while fostering a collaborative and supportive environment.

Modern leadership involves creativity and the ability to thrive in situations in which there are high levels of uncertainty and ambiguity, and to bring creative ideas to complex challenges. Some leaders thrive in complex operating environments because of an inherent curiosity and openness, but effective approaches to dealing with complexity can also be learned. This session will lay the foundation for the creativity and continuous improvement that is necessary to thrive in a complex world.