Culture Trends Tour Chicago

Join us at the Metropolitan at Willis Tower in downtown Chicago for an exclusive Culture Trends Tour experience. Connect with HR, Total Rewards, Compensation, and Benefits executives as we explore insights from O.C. Tanner’s 2026 Global Culture Report.

Enjoy meaningful conversations with your peers over a hosted lunch, and take part in an interactive workshop designed to turn ideas into action. Discover how integrated recognition can spark inspiration, transform hope into practice, and build performance-driven cultures that prioritize wellbeing without sacrificing results.

Hope

Turning hope from a wish into achievable goals by celebrating little victories along the way

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Inclusive Teams

Strengthening inclusive teams by recognizing the behaviors that lead to great work

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Healthy Performance Culture

Redefining performance to be sustainable by honoring success at key milestones

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Inspiration

Creating holistic approaches that inspire, connect and support your people at every stage

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Cristen Dalessandro, PhD

Cristen is a principal researcher and sociologist at O.C. Tanner, specializing in the study of social inequalities and qualitative and quantitative research methods. As part of the O.C. Tanner Institute and the Research Center of Excellence, Cristen’s work focuses on the employee experience and workplace culture using a social science lens.

 In addition to contributing to Institute research projects such as the State of Employee Recognition and annual Global Culture Report, Cristen is an award-winning researcher who has published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and one book, Intimate Inequalities: Millennials’ Romantic Relationships in Contemporary Times. Cristen has a PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Utah.