Your Customized Hub Page

Attendee Services    

Congressional Foyer
(Level 3)

Palm Court/Palm Park Foyer
(Level 7)

Attendee Services

Congressional Ballroom A
(Level 3)

9:00 am - 9:50 am

The Disruption Mindset

“Disrupt or die” has been the rallying cry for decades, but what does it actually mean to be disruptive, to make it the center of your strategy? Many established companies set a goal to develop “disruptive” innovations, believing innovation will disrupt their market and drive growth. But that is not how it works: Disruption does not create growth. Growth creates disruption. Charlene acknowledges that transformations are never easy, and the unrelenting pace of technological change makes it doubly difficult. But there’s hope and a way forward starting with reframing your strategy, leadership, and culture so that disruptive growth is at the top of your agenda.

Charlene Li, CEO, Quantum Networks Group

The Power of Bumper Car Moments - Accelerating Civility in the Workplace

Discover how handling your workplace Bumper Car Moments could become your most influential legacy, impacting not only your company but also the lives of everyone in your workplace. You can choose to be overwhelmed by conflicts or leverage these moments into opportunities for growth, resilience, and trust. Learn how to master your own emotional reactions to Bumper Car Moments, activate a three-step approach to diffuse immediate conflicts and support everyone, and gain insight into how your past triggers your emotional responses to conflicts.

Susan Schmitt Winchester, Former SVP, CHRO for Applied Materials and Rockwell Automation, Susan J. Schmitt Winchester & Associates

Navigating the Disruption of a Lawsuit

Navigating the complexities of a high-profile lawsuit can be challenging. Recently, Hello Alice faced a reverse discrimination lawsuit, which brought significant financial strain and public relations challenges. Despite these hurdles, the company continued to grow its business, reassure investors, and keep employees motivated and focused. As HR leaders, we play a crucial role in maintaining workforce stability, alleviating fears, and ensuring business continuity during such disruptions. 

Sara Elkins, SHRM-CP, Vice President and CAO, Atec, Inc.
Elizabeth Gore, President and Co-Founder, Hello Alice

Civility - Shaping the Next 365

We know civility matters. But how do leaders launch effective civility programs that really stick? Join Jenn Graham for an interactive session focused on how to roll out successful civility initiatives that foster a culture of respect and inclusion. Learn the essentials from how to frame it, to how to keep people engaged, and how to measure progress along the way. Gain valuable insights from case studies that demonstrate how peer-to-peer conversations strengthen psychological safety, empathy, understanding and connection across differences. Want to foster a greater sense of civility? Join this session to learn what has worked, what hasn’t, and walk away with an action plan.

Jenn Graham, Founder and CEO, Inclusivv

The AI+HI Blueprint: HR’s role in AI success

Artificial intelligence is generating a mix of excitement, fear, and skepticism as it promises to transform the workplace. SHRM believes that successful AI implementation requires a focus on the human side. HR possesses the right skills and experiences to make AI a strategic initiative. This interactive session will explore the SHRM AI Enablement framework, offering key tactics and insights into how HR can guide organizations to successful AI implementations.

Kristen Howe, Vice President Enterprise Products, SHRM

EN Assembly Groups (MidMarket)

Join fellow EN:Assembly Group peers for an in-person dialogue. Grow together through a facilitated conversation led by an EN:Assembly Facilitator, bringing your Zoom chats to life.

Facilitated by EN:Assembly

The U.S. Labor Shortage: Past Trends, Current Conditions, and the Way Forward

Explore the current gap in labor demand and supply in the United States, examining the evolution of the labor shortage over time, current conditions, and plausible future trends. Furthermore, we will discuss potential policy solutions for increasing labor supply.

Justin Ladner, Ph.D., Senior Labor Economist, SHRM

EN Assembly Groups (HR Leader)

Join fellow EN:Assembly Group peers for an in-person dialogue. Grow together through a facilitated conversation led by an EN:Assembly Facilitator, bringing your Zoom chats to life.

Facilitated by EN:Assembly

Civility: Its Impact on Mental Health During Election Years and Life’s Seasons

An engaging fireside chat with Jim Link of SHRM and Derek Lundsten from LifeGuides will delve into the critical aspects of modern leadership. Themes such as empathetic leadership, active listening, self-awareness, emotional intelligence and regulation, peer support, challenging beliefs and assumptions, civil discourse, and inclusion will be explored. The discussion will highlight how civility impacts mental health, offering valuable insights and practical strategies to enhance your leadership skills and foster a more inclusive, supportive, and mentally healthy workplace environment.

Jim Link, SHRM-SCP, CHRO, SHRM

Derek Lundsten, President & Chief Culture Officer, LifeGuides PBC

Reflections

Reflect on key insights, solidify action items, and set the stage for tomorrow’s success. This facilitated discussion will ensure clarity and commitment, leaving you inspired and ready to transform learnings into action. Do not miss this chance to reflect, connect, and prepare for the next steps in your collective journey towards excellence.

Embrace Uncertainty, Create Opportunity

"Just deal with it!” is often the advice given during business transitions, but it’s not that simple. Talented individuals can lose focus and question their value when the future is unclear. Resiliency training, wellness seminars, and meditation apps have their limits. Instead of wasting energy navigating uncertainty, embracing it is the key. This becomes possible when people know their value - to the company and its future. Drawing on her expertise in multibillion-dollar acquisitions, Jennifer reveals the Three Rings of Value that help people recognize their worth. Sharing her stories and steps, Jennifer shows how people knowing, showing, and owning their value propels a company to soar. And she might just show you how to fly.

Jennifer Fondrevay, Chief Humanity Officer, Day1 Ready

Austin Afterglow: Executive Night Out

Get ready to dance the night away under the Texas stars! Join us for an unforgettable outdoor reception where Austin's uniquely weird charm shines brightly. Enjoy live music that will get your boots moving, cocktails with a signature Lone Star twist, and a relaxed atmosphere that's as cool as it gets. This is an EN celebration like no other, y'all

I&D: The Heart of the Matter

Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion has long been a priority for companies across the globe. At SHRM, we have doubled down on efforts to lead with Inclusion & Diversity, to shift our focus from our differences to our commonalities, champion respect and civility, and engage in discussions instead of debates, ultimately ensuring individuals from all backgrounds feel valued, supported, and heard. And we always welcome other perspectives and approaches on this complex and critical topic. Join Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, president and chief executive officer of SHRM, and Chris Courneen, Global Head of Human Resources of MSI, for an insightful and candid discussion of the present and future of this critical work.

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, President and CEO, SHRM

Chris Courneen, Global Head of HR, MS International, Inc. (MSI)

Industry Connections - (Manufacturing/Global/Retail/Services)

Seize the opportunity to connect with fellow industry executives and collaborate on navigating today’s and tomorrow’s disruptions. Engage in a facilitated dialogue led by SHRM’s Executive Advisor team (Nancy Betz, Beth Goldstein and Lucinda Smith), designed to foster sharing of strategies and insights for future success.

Cracking the AI Code at Microsoft

The future of AI will wholly be hinged upon how human beings see and interact with the technology. That’s true for how companies will be able to sell this to market, how organizations realize benefits from the technology, what they want in terms of usage and uptake—it all involves people. There is no other professional more central to the future of AI than HR.

Nichol Bradford, Executive-in-Residence for AI + HI, SHRM

Chris Fernandez, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

EN Assembly Groups (CHRO)

Join fellow EN:Assembly Group peers for an in-person dialogue. Grow together through a facilitated conversation led by an EN:Assembly Facilitator, bringing your Zoom chats to life.

Facilitated by EN:Assembly

Industry Connections (Finance /Healthcare/Technology)

Seize the opportunity to connect with fellow industry executives and collaborate on navigating today’s and tomorrow’s disruptions. Engage in a facilitated dialogue led by SHRM’s Executive Advisor team (Nancy Betz, Beth Goldstein and Lucinda Smith), designed to foster sharing of strategies and insights for future success.

Building Sustainability When Burnout Feels Inevitable

Burnout, boundaries, and balance have recently become buzzy topics -- and although many recognize they could do better in these areas, many struggle to make impactful changes when stress and burnout feel constant in their lives. Join us to kick off 2024 with this mental wellness learning session that aims to cut through the usual wellness buzz in order to distill tangible body-brain science behind burnout, to redefine boundaries and balance to support demanding lifestyles, and to provide actionable tips to navigate burnout and build boundaries that feel tangible, realistic, and achievable.

Gloria Chan Packer, International Mental Wellness Educator, TED Speaker, Experienced Corporate Leader, Recalibrate

Looking through a Different Lens - Transitioning HR from Tactical to Strategic

An organizational transformation presents its own set of challenges. Factor in the transformation of the HR department, who should be key stakeholders in the transformation, it is not surprising that anyone would feel overwhelmed. And add inadequate if you’re new to the organization and tasked with tackling both at the same time. This session will take you on a journey of lessons learned throughout the process of transforming an HR department from tactical to strategic.

Anita Martin, SHRM-SCP, Vice President, Human Resources, Houston Texans

Palm Park

(Level 7)

Industry Connections (Education/Nonprofit/Government)

Seize the opportunity to connect with fellow industry executives and collaborate on navigating today’s and tomorrow’s disruptions. Engage in a facilitated dialogue led by SHRM’s Executive Advisor team (Nancy Betz, Beth Goldstein and Lucinda Smith), designed to foster sharing of strategies and insights for future success..

Workplace Crisis Management, Conflict Resolution, and Navigating Extreme Change

2025 ushers in volumes of sweeping changes from talent scarcity to employee burnout, union organizing activity, AI integration, and returning remote employees to the workplace. How HR leads its operational management teams through extended periods of upheaval directly ties to organizational effectiveness, culture change, and the bottom line. Join Paul Falcone, former CHRO of Nickelodeon Animation and author of HarperCollins Leadership’s "The First-Time Manager: Leading Through Crisis," as he helps to identify new ways of mastering the ongoing aftershocks to our teams and organizations in addressing individual, departmental, and global crises.

Paul Falcone, Principal Consultant, Workplace Leadership Consulting, LLC

EN Assembly Groups (MidMarket)

Join fellow EN:Assembly Group peers for an in-person dialogue. Grow together through a facilitated conversation led by an EN:Assembly Facilitator, bringing your Zoom chats to life.

Facilitated by EN:Assembly

Maximize Your Impact

True growth comes from embracing the unknown. High-performing individuals and organizations must develop their relationship with uncertainty to achieve greater success. Sterling Hawkins, through a methodology created and tested with some of the world’s largest companies, offers clear steps to rethink our relationship with the unknown and uncomfortable. This shift builds trust over fear, courage over worry, and the ability to handle uncertainty. Sterling’s compelling data, moving stories, and high-energy delivery inspire audiences to think differently, elevate conversations, and align with greater goals to maximize your impact.

Sterling Hawkins, Best Selling Author, Investor & Entrepreneur, Sterling Hawkins Group

Closing Remarks

Mo Fathelbab