Amanda Belcher
Vice President - Human Resources Sarah Cannon Research Institute
Amanda K. Belcher, M.A., is Vice President of Human Resources at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute, a joint venture of McKesson and HCA Healthcare. With more than a decade of leadership across strategy execution, organizational culture, and talent development, she guides people strategy for one of the world’s leading oncology research organizations. Amanda brings deep expertise in human centered HR, change management, and organizational communication, with prior leadership roles at Macy’s and Target. She holds an M.A. in Organizational Communication from Western Kentucky University.
Seminars
- How can HR elevate its role from support function to strategic business partner by building a high-trust, insight-driven relationship with Finance?
- Learn how Sarah Cannon Research Institute improved business acumen across HR, enabling teams to better navigate financial decisions, support people leaders, and manage tough moments like reorganizations with clarity and confidence
- See how this partnership delivered tangible ROI, including redesigning time-off policies to maintain employee benefits while reducing expenses by $4M
This Q&A session explores the two sides of what it takes to build a truly effective HR function, one that is designed around how people actually experience work, and one that has the financial credibility to influence commercial decisions at the highest level. Drawing on both the lifecycle-centered operating model and the HR–Finance partnership approaches explored in the Discover sessions, participants will examine the structural and relational changes that most reliably move HR from functional support to strategic partner.
- What are the biggest structural barriers to designing HR around the employee lifecycle, and how do you begin to dismantle them?
- How do you build financial fluency across an HR team without losing the human-centered culture that defines it?
- What governance changes most reliably break down the silos between COEs, shared services, and HRBPs?
- How do you make the business case for people-centered HR design in the language that CFOs and CEOs find credible?
