Ann Melinger, CEO
Brilliant Ink
In this comprehensive and hands-on workshop, you will leave with tools to help you:
In this workshop, you will learn to transcend “brand fog”—vague and generic messaging—and unlock the power of your company's story, strengthen your employer brand, and effectively communicate your employer brand to current employees and candidates.
Learn the steps required and the tools needed to move your employees with a clear, concise, , and compelling employer brand story, including how to:
Greg Monaco, Founding Partner
Monaco Lange -- The engagement consultancy™
Onboarding, particularly for leaders, is a crucible of leadership, a trigger for change. Done well, the chances of success for the leader, team, change initiative and the enterprise increase substantially. Done poorly, businesses flounder, change stagnates, teams disintegrate and leaders lose their jobs. If not addressed, ineffective executive onboarding leads to a cycle of attrition and broad decline.
During this session, you will learn different strategies for successfully onboarding leaders, including how to:
John Lawler, Managing Partner
Prime Genesis
Linda Hlavac, Partner
Prime Genesis
This session will provide you with a framework through which you can articulate how investing time and resources to ensure the employee experience is right for employees, customers – and the bottom line, including:
Lee Crawford, AVP - Employee Experience
TD Bank
Hear how Amazon’s peculiar employee programs could work for your organization, including how to:
Juan M. Garcia III, Global Leader for Career Advancement
Amazon
From onboarding to succession planning, learn how Rodan + Fields influences the C-Suite to take notice and get in the driver seat. This session will provide you with practical strategies on how you can build talent development programs despite the size of your organization.
Discover the art of connecting with people in your company, and most importantly how to successfully gain buy-in from the C-Suite to propel employees to achieve more, including how to:
Theresa LoPiccolo, Talent Development Manager
Rodan + Fields
Inward Strategic Consulting
There's no one who can better tell your company's story than the people who love working for you. But how do you engage and activate them as loyal ambassadors who passionately share your culture and raise morale among your employees? Hear from Kim Jokisch, director of employment branding and communications at Red Hat, about how the company built their employer brand from the inside out. Discover how Red Hat amplified their unique culture both internally and externally, reinforcing their company’s values and mission, and cultivating a workforce that feels a shared responsibility for growing the company.
Following this discussion, you’ll gain an understanding on how to successfully:
The employee experience is defined as the sum of all experiences an employee has with his/her employer. Over the past many years businesses of all types have gone through change and HR & Communication professionals are being put in a position to transform their vision, approach and skills to meet the needs to today’s modern employees.
This panel will be comprised of a diverse set of experts managing the employee experience, from office design to recruiting to internal communications to training and development/learning and more. The discussion will address:
Moderator:
Gregg Apirian, Managing Director, Vignette
1. ASSESS
Roll up our sleeves and get immersed in your culture and your people
2. PLAN
Let’s dream big – together – and prepare everything you need to put this vision into place
3. CREATE
Build and refine the elements that bring the dream to life
4. LAUNCH
It’s all systems go and time to start measuring our impact. High fives all around!
This session will provide you with insight on aligning personal and company values to drive connections and ultimately revenue. We will review simple and tangible methods to activate values and drive high energy engagements, including how to:
Siobhan O’Leary, VP Human Capital
Convene Conference Centers
This forward-thinking session will introduce you to NCR Corporation’s innovative concepts. You’ll gain an inside look at how their unique model of attracting and engaging today's top talent can be applied to your own organization, including how to:
Identify who today’s Consumer-Workers are and why they matter
Develop effective candidate personas for your own organization
Differentiate with relevant, engaging employer brand propositions
Design SMAC-led experiences that start with your recruitment initiatives
Partner with marketing and CX experts
At Southwest Airlines, the world-famous Culture and reputation for putting their People first allows them to recruit the best. We know they’re lucky to have inherited this Culture from the legendary founders, who entrusted Southwest to maintain what’s special about the LUV Airline. But you might be thinking, “Good for you! But what can I do within my existing culture?” The answer might surprise you: Start with the people who don’t work for you. We’re talking about hiring the right people.
Amidst the “war for talent,” learn how you can attract and retain the best by:
Regis Courtemanche, Director of Learning & Talent Development
BuzzFeed