Breakfast

Meals and Breaks

What HCM Success Looks Like

General Session

The conference kicks off with Excellence Award-winning HCM executives sharing their diverse perspectives on how they have made progress and what it takes to be future-ready. Audience members will add their ideas, reactions and questions in real-time using an easy-to-use app.

Rofikoh Rokhim

Dr. Daniel Neubauer

Heather Stefanski

Michael Rochelle

Expo and Refreshment Break

Meals and Breaks

Attendees can meet our conference sponsors and attend 15-minute “tech talks” in breakout rooms adjacent to the expo floor.

Tech Talk: Human Connection Drives Learning Impact

With hybrid and remote work, organizational cohesion and culture are under stress: employees are less connected to their work, and low engagement levels persist, impacting performance. With this disconnect, how can L&D and HR create an impactful learning core?
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Clement Durand

Tech Talk: Amplify Your Learning Impact through Technology

The technology in play to present learning to our employees, partners and customers is growing and changing every day. This session will focus on the use and definitions of augmented intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality to prepare today’s learning portals to deliver exceptional learning experiences. Let’s talk about how to create consumer-grade learning environments.

Kristine Kukich

Tech Talk: Strengthening the Sales Process: Developing a Customized Sales Methodology to Increase Sales and Client Satisfaction

Join us as Chris Cassell, Sales Development Operational Excellence and Brian Groves, Sr. Director, Americas Sales Development share the story of Align Technology’s partnership with TTA on a custom foundational sales methodology and curriculum that would standardize the way employees were onboarded and trained on sales processes and best practices.

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Brian Groves

Chris Cassell

It Doesn’t Matter What You Teach, if Nobody Remembers What You Said

Imagine a purple elephant playing poker with a giant cowboy hat-wearing ladybug. And now imagine what it would be like if you could get people to remember more of what you need them to remember from the training you present. If you want learning to stick, believe it or not there’s actual science that can help. In this memorable hour, we’ll focus on seven things you can do to make learning like molasses, sticky and sweet!

Mike Martin

Unlocking the Benefits of a Truly Inclusive Culture​

Developing a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion that benefits employees, customers and the organization requires a deep commitment to strategy and execution. This can be challenging, especially across a large enterprise because it involves cultural evolution, not just specific programs or initiatives.

Adonica Black

Wendy Miller

Rachel Cooke

Transforming Performance Management to Talent Enablement​

Employers increasingly understand that excellent performance does not necessarily mean employees have high potential for future success. Unlocking potential requires a mix of strategies driven by leaders and employees who partner on several levels for the mutual benefit of the organization and the employees’ career growth.

Nicole Davies

Kate Brown

Claude Werder

Lunch

Meals and Breaks

Network with your award-winning colleagues in the Florida sunshine in the middle of winter.

Fast Track: Cohort-Based Learning: Building for Scale, Alignment and Performance Readiness

How do you build deep organizational capabilities and achieve alignment across a massive, disjointed, remote workforce, in a time of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity? The half-life of skills in today’s workforce is 2-3 years, a high percentage of workers want to work remotely, and technology is evolving at an unprecedented rate.

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Christina Yu

Fast Track: Mutually Assured Success - How to Leverage External Training to Manage Risk, Boost Learner Engagement, and Educate Customers

When an action or system benefits all parties involved, it’s called mutually assured success. For example, when an employee education program helps people grow their careers and equips them with the skills that their organization needs. It’s win-win.

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Adam Ballhaussen

Diane Mika

Fast Track: The Digital Transformation of Whole Foods Market's People Experience

In this session, Courtney Cordova, Global Executive Leader of Learning & Development with Whole Foods Market (WFM), and Mike Parks, CEO of Inkling, will share how WFM transformed their training strategy for their front-line employees.

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Mike Parks

Courtney Cordova

Passing Break

Meals and Breaks

Future-Proofing Your L&D Team​

As a learning professional, the axiom “what got you here, won’t get you there” are words to live by. The future of learning teams will be driven by strategists who align learning objectives with business goals and collaborate across the enterprise. You will get an inside look at how to build a team of learning strategists capable of driving business impact.

Susan Vacchi

James Jinnette

Gabriel Schaepman

David Wentworth

Are You Addressing Employee Engagement the Right Way?

Improving employee engagement always sits atop employers’ priority list s. But what does that really mean in the new and emerging era of work? One imperative that Brandon Hall Group research has revealed is seeing the employee experience through employees’ eyes. This session will explore engagement from the employees’ perspective. You will leave with:

• A model for employee centric engagement strategies
• Success stories from award winning organizations
• A downloadable research asset

Melody Kelleher

Chantelle Nash

Tulie White

Claude Werder

Expo and Refreshment Break

Meals and Breaks

Attendees can meet our conference sponsors and attend 15-minute “tech talks” in breakout rooms adjacent to the expo floor.

Tech Talk: Kroger’s Ongoing Connections Support a Thriving Associate Experience

Leaders want high performance; associates want to love their job. And regular, high-quality, intentional conversations are shown to be the key to both goals. So what keeps this from happening more often? Join Kroger and TiER1 for practical tips on how Kroger tweaked its approach to performance making this an activity that people will actually do… and see the results.

Laura Hoppa

Ryan Grad

Tech Talk: Staffing Your L&D Needs with Confidence: It’s as Simple As 1-2-3

Impossible deadlines, unqualified consultants, dozens of wasted hours looking for the right fit – there must be a better way, right? Yes, and it’s as simple as 1-2-3.

Join TrainingPros as we share three secrets to quickly finding the diverse talent you need to jump-start your next project with confidence.

John Buschiazzo

Leigh Anne Lankford

Fast Track: The Future of Senior Leader Talent Development: Tales from the Field

Wondering what you’ll be doing tomorrow to bring value in new ways? Come learn how leading - edge talent leaders at several Brandon Hall Group award - winning companies have already paved the way to innovating executive leadership development. Their approaches to building and strengthening senior leadership capabilities, ensuring success in new roles, and enabling executives to bring more enterprise impact will inspire you to accelerate you r own leaders’ ability to deliver impact.

Jennifer McRae

Rick Cheatham

Roger Carrillo

Fast Track: Connecting with Leaders in Their Moment of Need

Just because managers are often good leaders doesn’t mean they don’t need continued guidance and growth opportunities. The world of work continues to change — fast. Ensure you’re connecting with your leaders and giving them resources to provide an effective, top-notch learning experience for their people, even during times of great change.

Todd Tauber

Ingrid Urman

Fast Track: Using Machine Learning to Get the Full Story from Employee Comments

"As organizations address workforce challenges including the skill gap, employee engagement, retention and learning effectiveness, it is important to analyze insights from unstructured text-based feedback. A must-attend session for HR leaders, gain insights on how to use machine learning based comments analysis to tell the full story beyond the numbers”

Michael Cohen

30th Anniversary of Brandon Hall Group Celebration (Reception)

Meals and Breaks