San Francisco CHRO Community
Executive Summit

Join the San Francisco CHRO Governing Body and their invited guests for an evening of peer networking, food and drinks—  plus the opportunity to give back to the local community!

As part of the evening's festivities, you'll create customized superhero capes with a "Message of Hope" to offer emotional support and a gift for children enduring hospital stays. 

Creating a strong workplace community is essential to meet the evolving challenges of 2023. Yet, new research from the O.C. Tanner Institute reveals how burnout and isolation among leaders and employees are threatening culture and organizational success. These challenges need fresh strategies to create a thriving workplace community.

Join this session to learn: 

• Insights from the perspectives of 38,000 leaders and employees worldwide
• Best practices for fortifying leaders and growing generalists in an era of change
• Ways symbolic, integrated recognition create a strong sense of community for all

CHROs are constantly tackling competing priorities in an ever-changing landscape. The dust will never settle: volatility and uncertainty define the operating environment. How do we support our people to stay resilient in the face of change?

Come together with your peers to tackle approaches to:

• Balance employee productivity with flexibility
• Upskill burdened managers to support their teams’ wellbeing
• How to play offense and defense at the same time and plan for the future with optimism while remaining realistic about challenges

Economic pressure can limit the resources and capacity for HR to focus on maintaining a strong organizational culture. However, in a time where employees see each other in-person infrequently and demand for talent remains competitive, CHROs need to keep organizations on the path of modernizing and strengthening culture.

Join this session as CHROs discuss:

• Seizing the moment to revamp culture for the future of work
• Defining and integrating company values into organizational culture
• Leveraging a connected culture as a driver of talent retention

According to Gartner, 94% of CIOs plan to deploy some form of artificial intelligence by 2025. With AI technology advancing at a pace that will likely transform the workplace as we know it, how should CHROs prepare themselves, their organizations and their people? 

This CIO-CHRO fireside chat will explore:

• Understanding common applications of AI and its impact on work and talent
• Partnering with the CIO to equip the workforce to thrive in an AI-enabled world
• Preparing for and addressing the ethical implications of AI in HR technology

Effective people analytics is now mandatory for successful collaboration with the CEO, board and organization at large. Despite this directive, many HR leaders feel behind or limited when it comes to talent data. How can CHROs gain the right insight into the productivity, cost and efficiency of your people?

Join this session to discuss:

• Improving transparency and fairness of people decisions 
• Providing the business better insights around people
• Building data-driven decisions into your culture

With workforces changing rapidly, it’s never been more important to have a secure organization design strategy. HR leaders around the globe are transforming their approach to put employees at the heart of the enterprise, break down siloes and maximize efficiency. How are CHROs successfully executing these changes while communicating transparently?

Join this session to discuss:

• Reevaluating organization design and identifying friction
• Maintaining clear and concise communication with employees
• Adapting to new ways of working with structural change

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Creating a human-centric culture which inspires purpose, care, belonging and connection is essential to the success of both employees and organizations. Providing employees opportunities to learn, innovate, grow and collaborate leaves them empowered and engaged within the workplace.

Join this session as Rakuten leaders share effective solutions for:

• Promoting employee connection globally with culture as the foundation for emphasizing inclusion, well-being and social purpose
• Building a persuasive business case to elevate workplace culture amid objections
• Unlocking the potential of serendipitous connections and enabling a self-running model that drives meaning, empowerment and engagement

Authenticity, empathy and candor are the new standard skills for leaders to be effective in today’s world of work. CHROs are still working toward instilling a human-centered approach into their organization’s leadership at every level.

Join this session to discuss:

• Identifying the competencies for successful leaders in the modern workplace
• Ramping up leadership development to improve talent attraction, retention, and engagement
• Understanding leadership skills gaps in your organization

With varying levels of boldness, organizations are attempting to meet employee expectations while balancing both business needs and long-term planning. So how can CHROs build a future of work strategy that is realistic and sustainable, yet future-ready?

Join this session to discuss:

• Navigating market disruptions and demographic shifts 
• Balancing employee demands for flexibility with business needs
• Developing a long-term future of work vision

90% of change adoption stems from employee motivation and willingness to embrace the change. 15 years in corporate mergers and acquisitions made Cassandra Worthy one of the world's leading experts on sparking Change Enthusiasm® in an organization, delivering insights to transform your organizational culture from surviving change to growing through change.

Join this interactive keynote to gain:

• A new perspective on the skills required to effectively lead through change
• Practical framework to quantify your strengths and areas of growth when addressing, working and leading through change
• An instantly applicable action plan to improve critical leadership behaviors and effectively lead change movements