Hear from thought leader Kevin Oakes, author of the bestselling book Culture Renovation®, as he offers his vision for the year ahead and outlines the challenges (and opportunities) HR leaders face.

For generations, when we’ve needed to innovate and grow, we’ve been told to “think bigger”—it’s now time to Lead Bigger.

Drawing from over three decades of experience, former CEO of AT&T Business Anne Chow shares how to lead bigger by leveraging inclusion beyond DEI, to elevate your work, workforce, and workplace.

All attendees will receive a free copy of Anne's new book LEAD BIGGER.

In Peter Cappelli's latest book, Our Least Important Asset, he catalogues the most pressing human resources and people management issues of our time.

There’s at least 80 years of evidence that managing people better matters to performance. The problem comes in part from the fact that we assume—particularly everybody who took an economics class in college—that companies are always trying to be efficient because if they were not, they would not be profitable. The problem with that is that in the contemporary environment, companies are not trying to maximize profits. They're trying to maximize share price, and that's not the same thing.

Join Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, Chief Diversity Officer and Corporate Vice President, Talent and Learning, Microsoft, to explore how diversity and inclusion, talent management, and learning and skilling are converging in the era of AI to unlock potential and uplevel an employee experience that includes everyone.

DE&I programs have faced immense scrutiny over the last year, posing risks to the progress made since 2020. Despite media attention and well-publicized examples of companies backing away from certain DEI commitments, i4cp's research has found that the vast majority of companies are moving ahead as planned.

In this session, professor Kenji Yoshimo offers his perspective on the current climate, what to expect in the year ahead, and how to continue to advance DEI.

We're celebrating our 12th year in partnership with Best Buddies International. In this short session, you'll hear about Best Buddies' mission to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. An estimated 81% of adults (18+) with developmental disabilities do not have a paid job in the community, yet i4cp's research shows that these people represent an untapped talent pool who can contribute to the workforce in a myriad of ways.

Hear from several leading CDOs as they discuss the current challenges DEI face and how they see DEI evolving to meet future needs of the business.

M&As can be incredibly fruitful—or incredibly costly and painful. They often fail due to culture mismatches between the two organizations, and HR is brought in way too late in the process. In this session, hear from longtime CHRO Dimitra Manis, who has been intimately involved in 65+ M&A deals during her career. She'll share why conventional approaches to bringing two companies together often fail or metastasize—and discover a better way to find synergy faster and more effectively.

In an era where digital transformation reshapes industries, artificial intelligence (AI) presents unprecedented opportunities to enhance learning and development strategies. This presentation dives into how AI-powered solutions can unlock human potential, driving employee growth, skill development, and organizational effectiveness.

Ana will talk about Lumen’s Culture Renovation, highlighting how Lumen is rebuilding from the people up and disrupting the telecommunications industry through radical transformation. Together, Ana and Lumen’s CEO have hired a new SLT, infused new cultural behaviors into their renovated people programs, and fostered a workplace that supports well-being, growth, and innovation. They also offer differentiated training and experiences to bring the culture to life with daring leadership, ensuring that everyone at Lumen thrives together.

Exclusively for Chief HR Officers and Chief People Officers, we present an additional opportunity to network with your peers in a private setting.

Each year, i4cp's evening events receive rave reviews. Join your peers for a unique evening at the Fairmont's Princess Pool, taking advantage of the beautiful Scottsdale weather while enjoying dinner, drinks, and fun activities to be revealed later.

Participate in the 12th i4cp/Best Buddies Friendship Walk, in support of inclusion and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It’s a great opportunity to stretch your legs, soak in a beautiful Arizona sunrise, and learn more about Best Buddies. RSVP here.

Enjoy breakfast with your peers and get ready for the day's events. If you haven't already checked in to receive your badge, registration also opens at 7:30am.

Also, take advantage of the Connextion Cafe, a unique opportunity where you can schedule in-person or virtual appointments with fellow attendees.

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Workplace flexibility, generative AI and five generations in the workforce add up to a lot of stress on employees and leaders. 64% of people at work are burned out by the pace of change. Some leaders are resorting to top-down commands: mandates to return to offices and adapt new generative AI tools to get more efficient that only add to that stress – and inhibit performance.

But there’s a better way forward. Join Brian Elliott for a conversation about how leading organizations are building new ways of working that can lead to better outcomes for people and organizations. He’ll leverage the latest research on the impacts of workplace flexibility, technology and inter-generational dynamics combined with best practices gleaned from his work with hundreds of executives.

Bring your questions, your perspectives, and your own engagement in building a better future of work.

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ServiceNow is driving an AI transformation across its Global HR Organization.  We’ll share our AI operating model, how we are building the technology and data foundation, where we are investing and what use cases we’re prioritizing.  We’ll also share our enablement strategy and our plan for creating the skills we need to use and build AI.

Hear from a CHRO at a global 20,000-employee company.

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About Annie: Annie Dean is the Global Head of Team Anywhere at Atlassian, where she is responsible for the 11,000+ person company’s shift to a distributed work model. Annie oversees the Real Estate and Workplace Experience teams and the Team Anywhere Lab, a dedicated group of behavioral scientists focused on designing and validating evidence-based ways of working. Most recently, Annie was Meta’s first Director of Remote Work, where she created and led a portfolio of future of work strategies. As a globally recognized expert on remote and flexible working, Annie’s work has been featured byThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company.

Lunch isn't just lunch at an i4cp event! Since we don't allow HR vendors or consultants to attend, each table is jam-packed with people you'll want to meet. Further, we'll reserve some tables for specific topics or functions so you can connect with others who have similar interests or responsibilities.

In this session, i4cp's chief research officer Kevin Martin highlights the key business and talent trends he and his team of analysts are observing—and recommendations he has for the HR leaders in the room.

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Hear from HR leaders at a Fortune 500 healthcare organization. More details coming soon.

Companies spend $60B annually on leadership development programs, but only 27% of HR executives rate leadership effectiveness a strength. Be the first to see key findings from i4cp's new study, which examines what leaders do differently to deliver success in distributed work environments and how high-performance organizations develop better leaders.

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About Lisa: Lisa Bryant serves as Chief Human Resources Officer for Dow. She is responsible for developing and implementing human resources policies and practices to support the Company’s global workforce, which includes talent, recruiting, compensation, benefits, and employee experience.

Don’t miss i4cp’s Award Ceremony where we hand out several prestigious honors to individuals and organizations that are driving real change. During the ceremony we’ll announce the winners of our Next Practice Awards, and recognize recipients of our High-Performance Award and Member of the Year Award, among others. See last year's winners.

And of course there will be an afterparty!

Join us for more fun at our awards afterparty, where we further celebrate our award winners and each other with food, drinks, and more. It's a great way to cap off the i4cp conference in style.

Kick off the final day of the conference with your peers, where you'll hopefully make connections that last for years.

Also, take advantage of the Connextion Cafe, a unique opportunity where you can schedule in-person or virtual appointments with fellow attendees.

According to a Charles Schwab survey, only 12% of wealth management firm CEOs are women. In this session—you'll hear from one of those CEOs, Kristen Bauer of Laird Norton, and the challenges she's faced (and overcome) in a male-dominated industry. Further, Kristen will discuss a new model for uniting corporate culture in an acquisition that unites the DNA of the converging organizations. This session will provide a unique lens on HR from the perspective of a CEO, and takeaways that any HR leader can leverage.

Many companies have leadership principles, but few companies embrace them the way Amazon does. In this session, you'll hear how Amazon brings its leadership principles to life and uses them not only as anchor for everything they do—but to dive deep into building detailed, goal-driven products, programs, and initiatives. More specifically, you'll learn how the people experience is guided by these principles, which allows the company to build HR programs that deliver business results—and ultimately for HR to operate as a true value driver within the business.

See the latest findings from i4cp's latest study on generative AI. This study is designed to help CHROs address a significant CEO need: guidance on what needs to happen with the workforce due to disruptive technologies—most notably GenAI.

We seek to surface how high-performance organizations are ensuring a future-ready workforce, and what their HR teams are doing differently.

Most HR leaders rate their company's ability to upskill and reskill employees to meet future needs as inadequate, and yet finding better, more effective ways to do so remain elusive. Hear from several heads of talent and/or learning as they discuss and debate the best approaches.

More details coming soon.

Carol Dweck’s multi-million-copy bestseller Mindset has transformed our view of individual success, coining the terms “fixed” and “growth” mindset: in a “fixed” mindset, talent and intelligence are viewed as predetermined traits, while in a “growth” mindset, talent and intelligence can be nurtured through dedication, the right strategies, and resilience.

But we’ve only understood mindset as solely about individuals.

In this session, you'll hear from Dweck’s protégé, Mary Murphy, social psychologist at both Stanford and Indiana University, as she presents a groundbreaking take on mindset, showing how to transform any group, team, or classroom to reach breakthroughs while also helping each person achieve their potential.

Kevin Oakes will wrap up the conference with closing remarks and an actionable send-off for every individual in the room.