Breakfast Deep Dive
Pre-Conference Breakfast Deep Dive
HR Business Acumen Bootcamp
Thursday, August 7 | 7.00-9.00am
Attend this breakfast bootcamp if you want to learn how to build business acumen.
Discover how to build a business case, understand the business structure and what they need from HR.
7:00 am Registration
7:30 am Discover: Approaches for HR to Become More Effective Strategic Business Partners
Synopsis
- Â How can HR leaders develop the skills to become true business partners?
- Learn how to balance our strengths as capable HR leaders with being more impactful business leaders
- Uncover approaches to establish organizational and people priorities to enable desired business outcomes
7:50 am Q&A: Julie & Partirizo
8:00 am Discover: Challenging the Traditional Approach to HR
Synopsis
- Shifting HR from compliance-focused oversight to proactive, strategic enablement by deeply understanding and aligning with business objectives and scientific milestones.
- Encouraging leaders and teams to genuinely own and nurture the organizational culture through intentional feedback loops, employee driven initiatives, autonomy, and leaders as active sponsors rather than traditional gatekeepers.
- Utilizing people analytics beyond dashboards – translating attrition and engagement insights into actionable strategies, fostering scalable and tailored People & Culture partnerships that drive impactful organizational decisions and meaningful change.
8:10 am Develop: How Else Can We Create the Mindset Shift from HR Cop to Partner?
Synopsis
When HR is viewed as a partner, it can better understand and address employee needs, leading to higher engagement and retention rates. Engaged employees are more productive and less likely to leave the company.
8:20 am Q&A: Manie (Emmanuelle) Jerome
8:30 am Action: How Are You Going to Use This Information in Your Day-to-Day?
Synopsis
- How are you going to make HR a stronger strategic partner to the business?
- How are you going to shift from HR expertise to broader business impact?
- How are you going to empower leaders and employees to shape culture?
- How are you going to turn people data into real action?
This is a roundtable discussion to put together an action plan to take back to your respective organization.Â
8:45 am Panel: Coaching HR to Business Partner Panel
Synopsis
How can we:
- Focus on developing HR teams as we develop the organization
- Ensure HR leaders role model behaviors and practices they promote
- Equip HR teams with business and financial acumen
- Prepare HR professionals to be business leaders, comfortable with numbers and metrics
- Address the existing gap in business and financial skills among HR professionals