People 2030: Our Talent, Our Future

08:00 AM - 08:45 AM ET

Registration and Breakfast

08:45 AM - 09:00 AM ET

Community Networking Exchange

Join us for “warmup” conversations to build connections around the future of work: how work, workers, and the workplace will evolve and how to make better workforce decisions and tech investments for tomorrow. Share your top future of work challenge. Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with our TCB Meet app to greatly enhance your event experience and community connections.

09:00 AM - 09:10 AM ET

Opening Remarks: Creating People Strategy for the Future of Work

What are the trends impacting the future of work and how do we prepare our workforce and workplace for sustainable performance and wellbeing? In our two-day event, we’ll discuss insights on how technology, social, and economic trends are shaping new strategic people requirements. We’ll share and discuss the core elements of People Strategy for the Future and what to do now.  Among the major topics:
• Leadership & Culture: Enterprise transformation, leader/manager behaviors, leading with purpose, vision, trust, and transparency, culture change, stakeholder (including Board) perspectives on human capital management and culture, scalable coaching.
• Talent Marketplace & Workforce Development: Strategic workforce planning and analytics, Skills-based organization, work tech enablement, GenAI learning and investments, and employee life cycle management,
• Employee Experience: Employee wellbeing, employee value proposition, human-centered work design, hybrid work, performance management, rewards and coaching, equity, and inclusion.

Amy Armitage, Program Director & Program Chair, The Conference Board

09:10 AM - 09:40 AM ET

Keynote: Building the Workforce of the Future Today

You can’t prevent workforce shortages of the future if you don’t do something today. In this far ranging and inspiring session, you’ll learn how one of the nation’s largest healthcare systems adopted purpose-driven leadership, a culture of transparency, collaboration and empowerment, and a broad commitment to education and its communities to address its healthcare mission. From lessons learned of the pandemic, to a commitment to address gun violence, and strategies to address staffing challenges, discover what it means to lead holistically now and into the future.

Michael J. Dowling, Chief Executive Officer, Northwell Health

Maxine Carrington, JD, Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer, Northwell Health

Amy Armitage, Program Director & Program Chair, The Conference Board

09:45 AM - 10:15 AM ET

Sponsor Panel: Insights on Technology Acceleration and the Future of Work

In our next session, we will discuss how AI and digital transformation impact the future workforce and future of work. Discover how technology can be employed not only to enable performance and enhance productivity, but, more critically, to enable creativity, innovation, and the capabilities that are uniquely human. Find out what the future holds for People Strategy and the investments that impact the value-adding skills and capabilities of the workforce and workplace.

Monika Means, Vice President, Senior Partner, Americas HR & Talent Transformation Leader, IBM Consulting

10:25 AM - 10:55 AM ET

Research Insights: The Reimagined Workplace in 2024

Explore the reimagined workplace where hybrid work, AI integration, shifting leadership dynamics, and the focus on well-being continue to reshape the future of business despite a tight labor market. In this session, we'll challenge the balance between flexibility and productivity, urging you to rethink the traditional office model to find ways to optimize rather than compromise.

Robin Erickson, Ph.D., Vice President Research, The Conference Board

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET

Sponsor Keynote: The Power and Purpose of Employment

This session reveals critical learnings about how to create and grow a sustainable, future workforce and source and develop new talent. We’ll discuss a non-profit’s experience building a community-based collective of workforce development organizations – Preparing employees for the workforce and filling workforce employment gaps. Then we’ll share more about how one organization put these strategies into practice, reaped benefits, and scaled their practices to fill workforce gaps.

Lina Bankert, Managing Director and Partner, The Boston Consulting Group

Kathleen Caliento, Ph.D., President & CEO, Cara Collective

Karen Collins, Chief Talent Officer, BMO Financial Group

11:35 AM - 12:10 PM ET

Panel: Building People Strategy for the Future: Leadership, Transformation, Skills, and Tech-enabled Culture

Chief Human Resource Officers with accountability for long-term people strategy share their holistic practices in our next session. Learn how these senior execs look ahead to the future and identify growth opportunities through people, amidst disruption. Learn how they build people strategies with a focus on purpose, leadership, culture, technology, transparency, and employee experience. Gain strategic and actionable insights on “next gen” HR and the digital skills needed.

Bucky Fairfax, Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, RTI International

Dalana Brand, Chief People Officer and Chief Diversity Officer, Peloton Interactive

Shivani Dhir, Assistant Dean Digital Learning, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Deborah Lovich, Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group

12:10 PM - 12:45 PM ET

Roundtable Interactive Exercise: Managing through the Fog

Navigating through disruptive change requires new ways of thinking and doing. Our next interactive session focuses on developing adaptive capacity, managing a paradox mindset, and addressing deep barriers and blind spots to effective and creative adaptation. When the world delivers turbulence, learn how to navigate the storm.

Scott D. Anthony, Professor and Author, The Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

12:45 PM - 01:45 PM ET

Lunch

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM ET

Panel: Foundations for People Strategy

Disruptive social, political, and economic forces are creating vast uncertainty in today’s labor and business markets. How can HR best navigate these changes to ensure a steady hand at the wheel? TCB research indicates top concerns of C-Suite for human capital include developing leadership and workforce capabilities and strengthening organizational culture to attract and retain talent. Find out how new “competitive advantage” people strategies are playing a pivotal role in enhancing growth, innovation, and agility.

Selena Yuan, Ph.D., Head of Talent Development, Cytokinetics

John Hadeed, Vice President, People & Culture, Primark US

Laura Sherbin, Managing Director, Seramount

Amy Armitage, Program Director & Program Chair, The Conference Board

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM ET

Research/Case Studies: Elevating Employee Well-Being

Our next panel will explore how employee well-being and people first strategies can help companies optimize their employee and team experience through listening, learning, development, and rewards strategies. We’ll share new research from The Conference Board and practitioner stories. Learn about the well-being investments that truly matter to the employee experience, future retention, and team success.

Dominique Cote, Vice President, Employee Experience & Communications, TMX Group

Stela Lupushor, Senior Fellow, The Conference Board

Rita Meyerson, Principal Researcher, Human Capital Center, The Conference Board

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM ET

Case Study: Workforce Strategy for Growth

Workforce strategy is critical for business growth – especially for this top retailer. In our next case study, we’ll share how to use data to understand talent, create learning and growth opportunities, and adapt to a changing workforce. Learn about the emerging talent marketplace and the next practices in workforce planning. Discover skilled talent using market and internal data.

Matt Rosenbaum, Principal Researcher, Human Capital Center, The Conference Board

Michael Manning, Vice President, HR Data & Innovation, FM

Rupert Bader, Group Director, Workforce Strategy & Insights, Walmart

02:20 PM - 02:50 PM ET

Research: Aligning Culture and Talent Strategies

Our next dynamic session offers new research on aligning culture and talent strategies to accelerate growth, based on findings from AESC’s signature research studies: the global member outlook survey of search and leadership advisory professionals and the annual survey of business leaders worldwide. Findings include critical HR leadership competencies, keys to culture improvement, drivers for attracting and retaining leaders, DEI, AI, and sustainability. Learn how HR leaders can drive business results through culture and talent strategy alignment.

Karen Greenbaum, CEO, AESC

02:20 PM - 02:50 PM ET

Case Study: Visible Pathways, Visible Impact: Building a Culture for Upskilling, Reskilling, and Innovation

Transparency in career development and advancement is a critical foundation for building tomorrow’s workforce. With a focus on improving college affordability, student engagement, and workforce readiness, our next session showcases practical strategies for supporting the growing majority of nontraditional and working students to ensure they have the skills required to succeed in today’s jobs.

Dan Marsella, Vice President of Enterprise Partnerships, Strategic Education Inc.

Marquand "Marq" Brown, VP HR and Chief People Officer, Oswego Health

02:20 PM - 02:50 PM ET

Case Study: Managing Disruption and the Wellbeing of Your Employees

Is your organization ready to respond when a disaster or personal hardship impacts your workforce? In this timely case study, learn how Dow Chemical Company equitably supports their global workforce with emergency financial relief. They will share how employee well-being is boosted with a sustainable readiness plan and access to financial support when the unexpected happens.

Courtney Ramey, Chief Product Officer, E4E Relief

Justin Land, Global Citizenship Program Officer, Dow

02:55 PM - 03:25 PM ET

Panel: Skills for Engaging Now and Into the Future

In our next session, our panel will discuss next practice strategies for how organizations can build a skills-based organization and culture of learning. We’ll move beyond the “skills hype” to share practices that are working to enhance employee development with focused business outcomes, measurement, career development, and clear accountability. We’ll share how to build skills for the future through decisions made today about your learning environment and investments in people

La Nise Hagan, Chief Human Resources Officer, OneTen

Melissa Feigelson, Ph.D., Director of Talent Insights, Verisk

Sandra Loughlin, PhD, Chief Learning Scientist, EPAM Systems

02:55 PM - 03:25 PM ET

Panel: Envisioning the Future of Workforce Development

In our next panel session, we’ll explore the future of onboarding and tech-enabled performance management. We’ll explore how AI-driven technology enables an employee life cycle approach focused on learning and workforce development. Explore the role of technology, while ensuring “human-centric” practices. Learn how to avoid the “whiplash” effect of economic disruption through a steady focus on clarity, candor, and care.

Khalil Smith, VP, Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement, Akamai Technologies

Azuree S. Montoute-Lewis, Global Chief People Officer, Burson

Arun Bedi, Senior Fellow Human Capital, The Conference Board

02:55 PM - 03:25 PM ET

Panel: Building Strategic Capability: AI Powered Leadership Coaching

Our next session will profile leading practices around the use and integration of technology, data systems, analytics, AI and leadership development. Learn how Fortune 500 enterprises are harnessing Gen AI coaching to support managers and other historically under-supported populations as they move through organizational change. We’ll also cover new research, investment, and data-based trends on the impacts of technology in human capital management.

Austin Smith, Global Head of Talent & Organizational Development, VML

Levi Goertz, Co-founder and Head of Client Solutions, Valence

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM ET

Case Study: Leveraging AI to Build the Skills-based Organization

Our next case study showcases how a consulting firm hired its own senior experts to create a dynamic talent marketplace designed to build skills, trust, and transparency, powered by AI. Learn how skills assessment, business requirements, skills matching, and career mobility come together in the skills-based organization. See how AI can be used to drive connectivity, efficiency, productivity, and profitability in the talent marketplace of the future.

Daghan Or, Partner, Technology and Transformation, PwC

Amy Richmond, Managing Director, People Team, PwC

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM ET

Panel: Transparency, Pay and the Employee Experience

Technologies, demographics, and pandemic-era new habits are driving new behaviors, expectations, and tensions in how workers relate to their organizations. Discover new strategies for AI, rewards and pay transparency, and how they are shaping the employee experience and organizational trust.

Michael Rory Katz, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Rewards and Wellbeing, Assurant

Lisa Hunter, Program Director, Senior Fellow, The Conference Board

Allan Schweyer, Principal Researcher, The Conference Board

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM ET

Panel/Case Study: Building a New Generation of Leaders

Identifying diverse leaders and retaining top talent are top issues for HR executives. Our next session will showcase innovative solutions to address these issues including the groundbreaking work of Project Accelerate, an initiative funded by the Equality Can't Wait Challenge, dedicated to advancing workplace equity by 2030. From implementing inclusive hiring practices to fostering diverse leadership pathways, learn actionable strategies and next practices that have led to tangible results in promoting diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Stephanie J. Hull, President and CEO, Girls Inc

Jennifer Bronner, Director, Community Impact, Corporate Social Responsibility, Cox Enterprises

04:15 PM - 04:40 PM ET

Leading Change and Driving Adoption

04:15 PM - 04:45 PM ET

Panel: Preparing Organizations for Digital Transformation

Digital disruption is reshaping entire industries. Organizations must be agile and innovate to generate new value propositions and create sustainable growth in the next economic age. In this final interactive session of the day, we’ll explore how leaders can build new perspectives and capabilities to navigate the changing digital landscape and remain competitive with sustainable business strategies.

Jana Brown, Chief People Officer, eHealth, Inc.

Antony Ebelle-Ebanda, Global Head of Digital Surgery Integration & Talent Insights, Johnson & Johnson

Amy Armitage, Program Director & Program Chair, The Conference Board

04:45 PM - 05:00 PM ET

Closing Remarks, Action Reflection, and Day Two Preview

Amy Armitage, Program Director & Program Chair, The Conference Board

04:45 PM - 05:45 PM ET

Cocktail Reception

05:00 PM - 06:15 PM ET

Reception