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How have CEO participants traditionally engaged with HR, and how is that changing for them?
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How can the CHRO most effectively help ensure organizational success?
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What's different about the skillset of a strategic CHRO?
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What are some successful models/structures participants have found in their organizations for tapping HR in new ways?
Agenda
October 1-3, 2018
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Monday, October 1
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Registration
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5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Welcome Reception and Dinner
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Tuesday, October 2
7:15 am - 8:15 am
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Breakfast at the Thayer Hotel
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8:15 am - 8:30 am
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Welcome
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8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Getting Your Organization Back to Human: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation
Erik Huberman | Founder & CEO, Hawke Media
Ilona Jurkiewicz | Sr. People Partner - Technology, Xandr; Former VP, Talent & Development, Thomson Reuters
Jessica Latimer | Vice President, Social Media, Citizens Bank
Dan Schawbel | Research Director at Future Workplace; Author, Back to Human: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation Technology has impacted our workplaces in ways that weren’t possible a decade ago. We feel “highly connected.” But are we, really? Instead of strong bonds, we have weak ties. Instead of productive meetings, we have distractions. Despite the illusion of 24/7 connection, in reality, most workers feel isolated from their colleagues, their organization and its leaders. What they crave most—and what research increasingly shows to be the hallmark of the highest-performing workplace cultures—is a sense of authentic connection with others. They want to get Back to Human. Dan Schawbel shows you how—while still optimizing all the benefits of technology. |
9:30 am - 10:30 am
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Who’s Got Talent? -- Keys to Recruiting Top Performers
Tony Steadman | Principal, Global People Advisory Practice, EY
According to a report by the National Center for the Middle Market and Brooking's Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, nearly four out of 10 mid-sized companies indicate a shortage of talent constrains their ability to grow. Gain tips from experienced executives and talent experts to solve your skills gap, fill your present and future talent pipeline, and attract the next generation of employees with the right set of skills to execute your strategy and remain competitive. Panelists will explore the skillsets prevalent among high performers and share creative strategies to overcome recruiting hurdles.
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10:30 am - 10:45 am
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Networking Break
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10:45 am - 12:00 pm
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Concurrent Roundtables
1. Decoding Culture: Measuring People, Choices, and Behavior
Neha Gupta | Chief Executive Officer, TrueOffice
Data is used to measure almost every facet of the business, but culture remains a largely subjective metric. How do you generate meaningful workforce metrics to understand, analyze, and predict behaviors that will contribute to the long-term success of your organization? In this peer roundtable, we will question and debate the opportunities and risks of using training to measure and predict employee behavior.
2. Driving Change: Leveraging HR’s Key Role for the Success of Organizational Initiatives
Dan Fries | SVP & Managing Director, Sibson Consulting
In a time of chronically tight talent markets, accelerating technological disruption and perpetual shifts in nearly every business, CEOs know that getting the most out of their workforce is the most critical part of their job -- which has made the role of the head of HR central within the organization, acting as a key consigliere to the corner office. Depending on the nature of business initiatives and the culture of the organization, the CHRO role requires a combination of superior strategic planning and execution excellence that pushes well past HR’s focus only a few years ago. Whether leading initiatives alone or as an integral part of a senior team, CHROs need to be business focused while still looking through a people lens – because in most cases the CHRO is in the best position among the organization’s leaders to understand what its people can achieve. In this roundtable discussion, participants will share their experiences, insights and best practices to strategically leverage HR, including:
3. Maintaining a High-Performance Culture in Times of Change
Sharon Dye | Manager of Business Performance, Insperity
Regardless of your industry, one thing all companies have in common is change. Employee engagement and motivation can be impacted by a wide range of internal and external conditions--new leadership, industry disruption, mergers, organizational restructuring, new business opportunities. How do you motivate, inspire and retain your high performers through times of organizational change? This discussion will look at how successful leaders facilitate and manage change effectively by building a culture of transparency, collaboration and clear communication that aligns all parts of the organization with the business strategy. Participants will also share ideas on how to implement performance management processes and incentive programs that help retain your top performers and model them for future roles.
4. Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Compliance, Transparency, Trust and Integrity
Victoria Chavey | Principal, Jackson Lewis
It’s 2018 and the #metoo movement and heightened information parity made possible by the digital age has compounded the challenges faced by corporate leaders to simultaneously prevent legal claims by employees and create a collaborative culture that drives organizational success. New examples come to light every day which demonstrate that rigidity and a lack of sensitivity by corporate leaders can result in the kind of publicity no company wants to receive. This interactive roundtable will explore why leaders must set the culture bar for their organizations from the top down, and that only through continued commitment and understanding can your company speak from one unified voice. Come away with a better understanding of what it will take to make your organization at once legally compliant and culture savvy.
5. The Unconventional Workforce
Elaine Bedel | President, Indiana Economic Development Corporation
Blair Milo | Secretary of Career Connections and Talent, State of Indiana
In an era of increasingly low unemployment, widening skills gaps and strong economic growth, the hunt for talent is tougher than ever. From creating bold new programs to attract military veterans to exploring ways to pull the long-term unemployed back into the workforce, to engaging prison populations, remote workforces and high school students, smart CEOs are turning to new sources and taking innovative approaches to getting great people. In this roundtable discussion, CEOs will share their best unconventional ideas for satisfying labor needs—and come away with useful practices they can put to work right away.
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Networking Lunch
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Leading in Times of Uncertainty
Facilitated by General Dennis Reimer | (U.S. Army Retired), Former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
Robert Leduc | President, Pratt & Whitney.
Joe DePinto | (1986 USMA Graduate), President & CEO, 7-Eleven Inc. M. Robert Weidner III | President & CEO of Metals Services Centers Industry This panel will explore how leaders build confidence and competence within teams to successfully operate in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. The CEOs will share tools to incorporate such as assessment, communication, trust, and empowerment to foster alignment with a common shared vision of success during periods of rapid change. |
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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Networking Break
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2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Great Commanders Guided Experience Led by COL (Ret) Pilar Ryan and COL (Ret) Jim Johnson This unique, out-of-the-classroom guided experience through the United States Military Academy at West Point will explore case studies in leadership from different eras of history to apply lessons of the past to present-day leadership and business challenges. Attendees will examine key leadership traits from great commanders of our nation including Major General John Buford, President Dwight Eisenhower, Lieutenant General Hal Moore, and General George Washington, and provide insight on outstanding leaders of character that exemplify West Point's principles of Duty, Honor, Country. CEOs will learn leadership principles such as leading from the decisive point, self-assessment, trusting instinct, and inspiring others to enhance one’s own leadership skill development. |
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Reception, Sponsored by
Dinner and Patriots in Business Award Ceremony
This award will recognize outstanding businesses that lead our nation in supporting active duty military members, veterans and their families and exemplify the values of Duty, Honor and Country through their business practices and throughout their community and industry.
For more information and to apply visit PatriotsInBusiness.com
Keynote:
Steadfast Leadership
BG Rebecca "Becky" Halstead | (U.S. Army Retired), First Female Graduate of West Point to be promoted to General Officer
From a scrawny kid growing up in a town with no traffic lights to being in the second class of women to graduate from West Point, achieving General Officer and commanding in combat, Halstead’s insights, principles, and tools for success come from practicing leadership—not just studying it—for more than 40 years. In this intimate, inspiring session, she'll help you discover your purpose, your values—and become a better leader by starting with yourself.
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Wednesday, October 3
6:15 am - 7:15 am
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Morning Fitness Session – Military-Style Team Training Something for everyone, whatever your fitness level! Get the day started and learn valuable lessons in discipline and teamwork that can translate directly into your workplace environment. |
7:30 am - 8:20 am
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Breakfast and Networking
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8:20 am - 8:30 am
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Day 2 Welcome
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8:30 am - 9:15 am
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Keynote: The Secret Science of Talent
Laszlo Bock | CEO of Humu Inc.; Former SVP of People Operations at Alphabet / Google
As head of people operations at Google, his groundbreaking research helped create the tech giant's legendary workplace culture. Now CEO of tech startup HUMU, he’s asking new questions about the future of work, technology and leadership that could—and perhaps should—change the way you run your company. |
9:15 am - 10:30 am
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Building a Leader Culture BG George "Barney" Forsythe, Ph.D. (U.S. Army Retired) | Retired President & CEO Westminster College This interactive, working session will explore how West Point and the Army develop talent and build leaders of character. Participants will evaluate a leader’s role in developing others, as well as organizational strategies to hire, motivate and retain key talent to generate your next level of VPs and future executives. |
10:30 am - 10:45 am
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Networking Break
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10:45 am - 11:30 am
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The Best Talent Ideas
Facilitator: Ted Bililies | Managing Director and Chief Talent Officer, AlixPartners Attendees will break into small brainstorming groups to collectively identify top take-aways from the event to implement immediately in their organizations. |
11:30 am
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Event Concludes
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Note: Agenda subject to change. *This conference is a private event, not affiliated or endorsed by the U.S. Army or U.S. government.