DAY ONE
Thursday, December 8th, 2022
11:00 am – 11:05 am ET
Welcome and Introduction
Amy Armitage, Program Director, The Conference Board
11:05 am – 11:30 am ET
Tapping Total Potential in the Workforce
Traditional concepts of high potential give way to total potential in this organization’s approach to scalable learning. Join Chris Smart as he shares his organization’s journey to build a new, customized learning platform designed to create a culture of continuous learning for all employees worldwide. Learn how a “skills agenda for business” enabled by technology and the talent marketplace can provide every employee with access to tools, resources, and incentives for growth. Gain an understanding of how the right strategic investments can build a sustainable organization through a sustainable workforce.
Chris Smart, Chief Learning Officer, and HR Portfolio Management Lead, MetLife
11:30 am – 11:35 am ET Break
11:35 am – 12:00 pm ET
Leading and Learning Through Change
“I am drawn to go to where I can continue to learn and am needed most – to help companies and employees build healthy growing cultures,” explains Pat Wadors on her decision to join UKG as Chief People Officer. Join us as she shares her remarkable career and personal journey into a new era of employee and customer experiences, digital transformation, and human-centric learning and connection. With a deep commitment to the entire employee experience, building healthy and diverse cultures, and continuous learning,Wadors will share insights into why employees are the magic to any successful company and how to tap the magic for yourself and others.
Pat Wadors, Chief People Officer, UKG
12:00 pm – 12:05 pm ET Break
12:05 pm – 12:30 pm ET
Future Proofing Talent: Building the Skillsbased Talent Operating System
Learn how a major pharma company is building a skills-based organization – and operating system - based on skills. We’ll discuss why a skills ontology is critical and how to incorporate internal and external skills data into your talent management system. Learn how various components of workforce planning, learning, and talent management come together through a new skills-based operating system and how that system can provide talent solutions for both today and tomorrow.
René Gessenich, Head of Strategic Workforce Planning and Skill Management, Novartis
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm ET Break
12:45 pm – 1:10 pm ET
People & Technical Skills: Building a Dynamic Skills-Based Organization
Learn how culture skills and technical skills – together – form the dynamic basis for employee assessment, growth, and learning. In this innovative initiative to develop the current and future workforce, two learning leaders share how they built a comprehensive approach to thrive in the skills economy through employee listening, employee voice, dialogue, and career enablement. Join Top Ten Data and Analytics Award winner Stephanie Murphy as she shares her work in the design, development, and deployment of “culture” skills at this leading tech company. She shares a conversation with career expert Marla Oram on shaping a vision, priorities, and practices to enable employees to drive success through a skills-based strategy.
Stephanie Murphy, Ph.D., Head of People Insights and Assessments, Dell Technologies
Marla Oram, Practice Lead, Skills and Career Enablement, Dell Technologies
1:10 pm – 1:15 pm ET Break
1:15 pm – 1:40 pm ET
Learning for Performance on an Accelerated Timeline
Understand Ecolab’s learning journey from classroom to digital under an accelerated COVID timeframe. In this session, you will learn about how to define a strategic vision, implement a learning roadmap, and execute world-class performance improvement solutions to enable growth in the pursuit of ambitious business objectives.
Kris Zilliox, Vice President, Institutional Training,Global & North America, Ecolab
1:40 pm – 1:45 pm ET Break
1:45 pm – 2:10 pm ET
Sponsor Keynote: Scaling Your Coaching to Achieve Business Outcomes
In this next session we’ll share how a highly scalable coaching solution, enabled by technology and research, creates new capabilities and performance outcomes. Join the Center for Creative Leadership and a client organization as they share how scalable leadership coaching can build new levels of performance throughout the enterprise.
Center for Creative Leadership
2:10 pm – 2:15 pm ET Break
2:15 pm – 2:40 pm ET
Panel: Scaling and Workforce Planning Skills for the New Organization
This panel of learning and workforce planning leaders will discuss the challenges of scaling and customized learning opportunities aligned with business objectives. You’ll learn about how to identify and assess skilling and reskilling requirements, use data, build workforce planning capability, and engage employees and other stakeholders in the process of building skills and capabilities.
2:40 pm – 2:45 pm ET Break
2:45 pm – 3:10 pm ET
Agility and Innovation Fueled by a Skills-Based Talent Strategy
As digital transformation has changed the nature of work, jobs have become more fluid, and the labor force continues to shift, organizations are utilizing skills as the foundation for developing, moving, hiring, and evaluating talent. Skills have become the common data element linking talent practices, providing transparency into the capabilities of the workforce, and elevating the employee experience.
Jennifer Burnett, Ph.D., Research Principal, Human Capital Center, The Conference Board
3:10 pm – 3:40 pm ET
Work without Jobs: The New Operating System of Skills and Capabilities
Join one of the World’s top HR thought leaders on the future of work as he discusses a more resilient and agile construct for work. We’ll explore a new work operating system that better reflects the fluidity of work and workers and better supports organizational agility. Learn why leaders, workers, and work operating systems must deconstruct jobs and workers into more granular units such as tasks and skills or capabilities. Learn how skills and capabilities and not jobs are the new currency of work and how to get started.
John Boudreau, Ph.D. Research Scientist and Professor Emeritus, SC - Marshall School of Business; Best-selling Author, Work Without Jobs
3:40 - 3:45 pm ET
Closing Remarks
Amy Armitage, Program Director, The Conference Board
