Executive Summit

In today’s dynamic and challenging business environment, Nestlé has launched a significant global restructuring initiative, publicly announcing a new organizational structure for the first time. These transformations often mark pivotal moments in a company’s journey and highlight the importance of adapting to ensure future success.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Develop effective strategies for leading organizational change
• Prepare leaders to confidently guide teams through uncertainty
• Foster and sustain a strong organizational culture during transformation

As C-Suite leaders over service organizations, CHROs and CIOs alike know that the relationships we have with our business partners often determine whether we’re seen as providers of a service or embedded strategic partners. At the University of Virginia, CIO Kelly Doney led a culture transformation grounded in trust, purpose, and team ownership that reconnected people and enabled ambitious organizational goals. This approach highlights that culture isn’t separate from strategy—it’s how we deliver on it.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Use culture as a force multiplier for influence and leadership
• Build the trusted relationships needed to address complex, high-stakes challenges
• Translate team-driven processes into a practical blueprint for lasting change

Benefits complexity is accelerating, employee expectations are rising, and AI is no longer optional. The challenge for CHROs is navigating the growing complexity around choice, multiple providers and varied experiences with speed, clarity, and consistency at scale. We’ll explore how CHROs can balance high-tech innovation with a human touch approach to simplify the complexity with confidence for their people.

Join this session to discover:

• Responsible strategies for leveraging unified intelligence to enhance benefits navigation
• Streamlining administration while supporting employees during the moments that matter
• Balancing automation with human expertise anchored in trust, compliance and care

CHROs face growing pressure to prepare the workforce for AI and redesign work around effective human-AI partnerships. Yet, organizations can only achieve better business outcomes through AI by having a proactive and structured approach to it’s impact on the workforce.

Join this session to discuss:

• Moving beyond tactical AI deployments to comprehensive strategy
• Aligning technology investments with business priorities
• Identifying high-value AI use cases across HR

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

Exceptional leaders don’t just drive results—they build cultures where top talent thrives and stays. As organizations compete for the best people, it’s up to leaders, with the support of the CHRO, to cultivate environments that engage, develop, and retain high performers. This interactive session will explore the key leadership qualities and actionable strategies that help retain top talent, and how HR can partner with leaders to ensure future organizational success.

Join this workshop to discuss with your peers:

• Identifying the traits and behaviors that inspire loyalty and engagement
• Practical approaches for leaders and HR to nurture, challenge, and keep high-potential employees
• Building supportive, adaptable, and growth-oriented workplaces where top talent wants to stay

In a climate of rapidly advancing technology, shifting regulations and economic uncertainty, CHROs should prioritize strategic workforce planning (SWP) for the future success of talent and the enterprise. But Gartner insight shows, 59% of CHROs agree minimal leadership engagement weakens these efforts.

Join this session to explore how to: 

• Bring the right stakeholders together to prioritize SWP
• Focus on strategy, rather than operational workforce planning
• Influence lower-level leaders to shift to long term thinking 

Emerging technologies are rapidly transforming every enterprise, impacting work at all levels. Proactive CHROs are leading the way, anticipating change and adapting strategies to provide clear direction on work redesign. This session offers a peer discussion on what’s working as organizations navigate the evolving world of work.

Join this session to discover how CHROs and their teams:

• Lead organizations through ongoing transformation and uncertainty
• Anticipate and prepare for new roles and skill requirements driven by emerging technologies
• Equip and inspire a workforce to thrive in a dynamic and unpredictable environment

As CEOs reshape their organizations so that the blend of human and AI capability makes performance inevitable, CHROs are left with a paradox: building a workforce to deliver strategy when the work itself is undefined. Every major technology breakthrough, from electricity to the internet, required organizations to reorganize their people and processes around the technology before they saw a productivity benefit. Adaptive structures can enable speed and ownership, but only if organizations can supplement them with strong governance, clear communication and connections across the enterprise.

Join this session to learn how CHROs and their teams:

• Drive faster, clearer work decisions
• Anticipate future roles and skills
• Ready an unsettled workforce to perform in any context

Finish the day sharing lessons learned with your peers over light fare and drinks at this closing reception hosted by your governing body members.