From the CEO’s Lens: What HR Leaders Need to Drive Strategy, Culture, and Leadership Impact

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, HR leaders are expected to do more than manage processes—they must be strategic partners, culture champions, and leadership accelerators. This panel brings together CEOs and CFOs to share candid insights on what they truly need from HR leaders.

Attendees will hear firsthand how the C-suite evaluates HR’s impact on enterprise strategy, culture, and leadership effectiveness. Through an engaging discussion, executives will reveal the behaviors, initiatives, and outcomes that elevate HR from a support function to a critical business driver. HR leaders will leave with actionable guidance for strengthening influence, shaping culture, and driving organizational performance at the highest level.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the CEO perspective: Identify how top executives define HR success and strategic impact.
2. Elevate HR influence: Learn approaches for building credibility and trust with executive leadership.
3. Link culture to performance: Recognize the role HR plays in shaping culture, engagement, and leadership behaviors that drive business outcomes.
4. Prioritize initiatives: Gain clarity on which HR programs and interventions create measurable enterprise value.

Key Takeaways:

• Insight into what CEOs and CFOs truly expect from HR in shaping strategy and culture.
• Practical strategies to increase HR’s visibility and influence in executive decision-making.
• Tools and ideas to align leadership development, engagement, and culture initiatives with enterprise objectives.
• Lessons on how HR can act as both a trusted advisor and a catalyst for organizational performance.

Timeline

8:00am - 8:45am - Registration + Breakfast + Networking

8:45am - 9:00am - Interactive Team Building Activity

9:00am - 10:30am - Program

IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR 1.5 HRCI + SHRM CREDITS

PROGRAM ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED