Welcome address from the Chair
Daniel Cogan
Human Capital Consultant, Deloitte
Business transformation: An executive’s perspective on people strategy and fostering an agile environment
Forward-thinking executives understand the critical importance of HR directors in inspiring people to carry out strategic initiatives.
Kendra Banks
Managing Director, SEEK Australia and NZ
2020 and beyond: HR leadership in the future
We live in an increasingly dynamic and fluid world. As workplaces transform, employees are demanding more flexibility and technology is promising to liberate HR departments from transactional tasks. What will HR roles look like in the future?
- Preparing your workforce for future challenges and opportunities
- What does the future hold for progressive and flexible work options and benefits?
- How can we guide and support teams for a future that is uncertain?
Lucinda Gemmell
Chief People and Culture Officer, Virgin Australia (HRD Hot List 2019)
Panel: Leading change in the C-suite
Successful HR directors are highly-valued change managers and business shapers. This panel will discuss strategies for effectively executing change at the executive level.
- Becoming a trusted advisor at the senior leadership level
- Communicating the significance of change to the workforce
- Harnessing the power the C-suite to provide clear direction and communication
- How to ensure that middle managers feel ownership of the change programs
Panellists:
Lisa Green
Group Executive – Human Resources, ASX
Heidi Suominen
Chief People Officer, RACQ
Kate Svoboda
Chief Human Resources Officer, Genworth Financial
Erika Takahashi
Human Resources Vice President – Australasia, Mastercard
Legal update
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HR Director spotlight: Telling stories through data
HR leaders increasingly need to think ‘big picture’ and analyse HR data to drive decision making. In the future, how will HR teams use data to tell stories?
- Making connections across data and information to inform successful decision making
- Using data and analytics to influence stakeholders at all levels
- How to shape data into a narrative to help reveal findings, trends or underlying patterns
- Using linked visualisations to explain how and why HR data changes over time
- How can we use data to think differently about the employee experience?
Dean Summlar
Vice President Human Resources – Pacific Zone, Schneider Electric
Case study: Preparing leaders for the future of work
There are a lot of changes ahead with the future of work. Will there be a change in requirement from our leaders to meet these future demands? It’s one thing to prepare for the future of work but how are we going to prepare our leaders?
- Understanding future workplace trends and their impact on leadership
- Changing the way leaders think about themselves and of leadership
- Pragmatic leadership skills to deliver successfully in a transformation environment
- Effective outcomes from enterprise wide development program over multiple years
Anna Buber-Farovich
HR Enablement and Transition Lead, Google
Workshop – Finding the unlikely leader: valuing difference and diversity
Facing our human tendency to judge competency based on assumptions not facts. How to find, value and amplify the silent skills all around us for next level leadership.
- Why working with diverse, difficult or different people fast tracks careers and results
- How we unconsciously determine the potential of those around us
- How logic and intellect can get in the way of progress and potential
- Why our skills and experience are part of the problem and what to do about it
- Why the ‘traditional’ push for diversity is making things worse
- Why the world is ready for a new leader and how to get there
Anneli Blundell
Professional People Whisperer, Anneli.Blundell.com
Opening remarks from the Chair
Daniel Cogan
Human Capital Consultant, Deloitte
Bold leadership from the top: A CEO’s perspective on people strategy
Forward-thinking CEOs understand the critical importance of HR directors in inspiring people to carry out strategic initiatives. The session will cover:
- The importance of empowering HR teams to carry out people programs
- The traits that CEOs value in HR leaders
- The key to authentic, bold HR leadership in the boardroom
- How HR can impact bottom-line revenue and performance
Case study: Change leadership at eftpos Australia
Many organisations are moving to agile and dynamic team structures. How can we maintain a flat organisational structure while still meeting our team's need for advancement opportunities?
- Developing talent in agile organisations that are no longer hierarchical
- Moving talent around the organisation to suit changing business priorities
- Encouraging managers rethink and reshape their teams while managing day-to-day operations
- Taking an agile mindset to support and guide new projects
Viona Young
Chief People and Culture Officer, eftpos Australia
Engaging employees through authentic and ethical leadership
The world is changing. Workplaces are increasingly dynamic and flexible, and HR leaders are increasingly being called-upon to provide ethical guidance at the executive level. What does leadership look like in today’s world?
- Should the role HR leader change with the changing times?
- Engaging employees through storytelling and authentic leadership
- Coaching and guiding managers to provide effective feedback to their teams
- Encouraging managers to give honest, fair developmental feedback and authentic praise
Karen Ancira
Chief People Officer, KFC South Pacific
Case study: Leveraging technology for an amazing onboarding experience
How are innovative employers using tech platforms to integrate new employees into their corporate cultures.
- Creating and implementing an onboarding strategy that supports your corporate culture
- Driving onboarding strategies and programing your HR tech solutions to implement these
- Where is the wow factor? How to make your onboarding process remarkable
Edan Haddock
Talent Manager, flybuys
Case study: Working with a new CEO
All HR directors will, at some point, need to adapt to working under a new CEO. If you’re a senior team member in a company with a new chief executive, your success will depend on the views of a person you may not know. How can you adapt, survive and thrive in a time of such massive changes?
- How to demonstrate support and create a great first impression
- Embarking on your own personal transformation journey with your new CEO
- How to maximize your chances of prospering and succeeding with a new leader
- Positioning yourself to help the CEO to building a strong and committed executive team
Tracey Lake
Chief People Officer, CUA (HRD Hot List 2019)
Panel: Leading for the future – offering a human element to strategy
The future is human. When AI and other HR tech platforms have been effectively implemented across the economy, HR leaders will need to work cross-functionally to provide the people side of strategy. This panel will draw on audience participation to discuss key take-aways from the forum. Prepare to get involved.
- How will we build our credibility as respected, valued and trusted HR leaders?
- What will future organisations need from their executive teams?
- How can we build our organisations’ agility to meet unknown new challenges?
Panellists:
Diana Dawid
Chief Human Resources Officer, Mills Oakley
Tristram Gray
Chief People and Capability Officer, Kmart Australia
Tracy Quinn
Global Talent Acquisition Lead - Capability & Development, Mondelez Australia