You Can Become a More Strategic HR Professional
These speakers offer strategies and guidance to make it happen
Midlevel and senior-level HR professionals can learn how to be more strategic and less transactional in their role. The SHRM Annual Conference & Expo (SHRM24) offers a buffet of sessions that explore strategic HR.
Read on for a list of some of these sessions; all times are Central time.
Saturday, June 22; Sunday, June 23; and Monday, July 1
HRBP: Becoming a Strategic Influencer
This is a two-day in-person program in Chicago (8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. June 22 and 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. June 23) followed by a final virtual session on Zoom (1 p.m.-4 p.m. July 1). Additional registration and fee required.
Intended audience: midlevel
Presenter: JoDee Curtis, SHRM-SCP, HR consultant at Purple Ink LLC
Explore how to move from performing the tactical duties that your business demands to focusing on the strategic work that it needs. Use data and metrics to drive the change your business requires. A highly experiential case study is woven throughout the program, allowing the participants to practice what they’ve learned.
Sunday, June 23
Preparing to Lead: Critical Project Management Skills for the HR Executive
8 a.m.-noon; additional registration and fee required.
Intended audience: senior level
Presenter: Valerie M. Grubb, principal at Val Grubb & Associates Ltd.
This highly interactive session will provide you with the tools you need to plan for success, lead and execute projects of all sizes, and deliver results while meeting budget and schedule expectations.
Monday, June 24
7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.
Intended audience: senior level
Presenters: Toni Fleming, vice president at DEKRA North America, and Rajni Walia, vice president and executive consultant lead at DEKRA North America
This session looks at a collaborative approach to enhancing the psychological safety of your workforce in partnership with internal stakeholders. Learn how to play a compelling role in safety discussions and strengthen your organization’s commitment to worker safety while promoting HR’s strategic value.
From Support to Strategy: The HR Transformation Blueprint
11 a.m.-noon (repeats Tuesday, June 25)
Intended audience: midlevel
Presenter: Jennifer Akoma, SHRM-SCP, head of people and stewardship at Android Industries
Learn how to evolve your HR departments into strategic business partners by implementing innovative strategies for talent management and leveraging technology guided by a comprehensive blueprint for transformation.
Harness Power for Good: How to Influence Effectively Within Your Organization
11 a.m.-noon (repeats Tuesday, June 25)
Intended audience: midlevel and senior level
Presenter: Michael Walters, CHRO at Samsung Semiconductor
Learn strategies to enhance your effectiveness as an HR leader or CHRO within your organization. Build your influence and power across your organization, within the C-suite, and across the board of directors.
11 a.m.-noon (repeats Tuesday, June 25)
Intended audience: senior level
Presenter: Felice Carlton, CEO of Felice Carlton Enterprises
Learn to mitigate burnout and operate at peak performance from a registered nurse and public speaker who has 14 years of experience in improving outcomes and strategically navigating leaders. Recognize the early signs and symptoms of leadership burnout and master strategies to reduce burnout in your life and career.
3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. (repeats Tuesday, June 25)
Intended audience: senior
Presenter: Richard Fagerlin, president of Peak Solutions Inc.
This session focuses on how HR can drive strategic thinking and add value throughout the organization, rather than leading strategy for the HR department. Find out what you might be doing that makes it difficult to do business with you and what you can do to fix those practices. Apply an organizational health model to your efforts to determine areas of ailing and good health.
Tuesday, June 25
11 a.m.-noon (see Monday, June 24, for session details)
Master the Four Disciplines of Strategic Fitness for Elite Performance
11 a.m.-noon
Intended audience: senior
Presenter: Rich Horwath, president of Strategic Thinking Institute
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rich Horwath, who designed the Strategic Fitness System, provides leaders with a framework to master the most important business skill of our time: strategic capability.
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. (see Monday, June 24, for session details)
Harness Power for Good: How to Influence Effectively Within Your Organization
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. (see Monday, June 24, for session details)
From Support to Strategy: The HR Transformation Blueprint
2 p.m.-3 p.m. (see Monday, June 24, for session details)
Wednesday, June 26
Why Strategic HR? Because “People Matter, and Purpose Matters”!
7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.
Intended audience: senior level
Presenter: Neena Kovuru, strategic HCM thought leader at UKG
The session will examine the role of people analytics in driving HR strategy. Learn to move HR from being transactional to being strategic. Discover HR’s strategic role in fostering a growth mindset and culture that will lead to better productivity, collaboration, and morale. Use technology to formulate real strategies and integrate organizations, systems, people, processes, and cultures.
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