7:30 am LEAP HRBP Searchlight Breakfast Taster: Elevating HR as architects and owners
Synopsis
This session is built for high potential HRBPs to come together and discuss how to act in a consultative way for their business, to implement change initiatives and advocate for HR solutions.This meeting is built on the digital presentation Tracey Franklin, CHRO from Moderna, gave for the network in March. Tracey has had first-hand experience with steering her organization through designing (and owning) corporate strategy and provides a case study for HRBPs to pragmatically tackle to share experiences and walk away with actionable insights.
Please reach out to the Searchlight team if you are interested in joining this free-to-attend session.
8:00 am Conference Registration & Networking
8:50 am Chair’s Welcome & Recap of Day One
Challenging Traditional Performance Management to Develop Capabilities and Meet Business Priorities
9:00 am Panel Discussion: Challenging Traditional Performance Management Approaches to Ensure Talent Development & Retention
Synopsis
Discussion points will include:
- Legacy performance management practises and how can we customize them to be more impactful for our businesses today
- Working with performance management systems to include behaviors that reflect company values and beliefs
- How is performance management evolving, and how can we be most innovative to best serve our individual companies?
9:30 am Discover: Rethinking Talent Management: Prioritizing Potential Over Performance to Develop Talent for the Roles & Business Priorities of the Future
Synopsis
- Shifting the mindset away from ‘performance of the past’ to the ‘potential for the future’ to develop employee capabilities and retain top talent
- Implementing the ‘Judgement, Drive and Influence’ model to assess potential versus performance across the organization as a talent management metric
- Learn how Gilead are sewing the notion of ‘potential’ into the fabric of the organization to build skills and capabilities for the individual and organization as a whole
9:50 am Changing Dynamics in Life Sciences Talent Acquisition: How to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Life Sciences Recruiting
Synopsis
- An insight filled session on the changing labor markets, what to expect for 2023 and beyond, and how companies are creating new strategies
- Actions, Tools and Techniques to create a market differentiation within your employment brand and a competitive advantage in your recruiting function
- Key observations and recommendations to address the talent shortages within life sciences recruiting and creative examples of what some companies are launching to pique the interest of the passive job seeker
10:10 am Develop: What More Can We Learn from Life Sciences HR Leaders Innovating their Talent Management Strategies?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
10:30 am Action: How Are You Going to Rethink your Talent Management Approach to Better Build Employee Skills & Capabilities?
Synopsis
Interactive Discussion Session Facilitated by the Chair
10:50 Networking & Refreshments
TRACK A
Implementing People Strategies for Successful Organizational Restructuring
11:20 am Discover: Highlighting the Crucial Role of the HR Function in the M&A Process to Successfully Prepare Internally & Externally for Acquisition
Synopsis
- Championing your organization meanwhile acting as a strategic thought partner to an acquiring company
- Examining the impact of M&As from a cultural perspective and understanding the role of an acquired P&C team
- Revealing what a large acquirer is looking at when conducting integration and what Roche does differently
11:40 am Discover: Leveraging Organization Design Principles to Enhance Leadership Capabilities & Culture to Drive Productivity
Synopsis
- Stages of Change Management: self-diagnostic, external benchmarks and connection to business drivers
- Utilising focused leadership development programs to realign employees with company vision and directive and to emphasize new leadership habits
- Revealing the benefits of a multi-pronged approach to org design: prioritization of work, elimination of duplication of work, reinvestment into value driving activities
12:00 pm Develop: What More Can We Learn from HR Leaders Experienced in M&As & Other Changes to Organization Structure?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
12:20 pm Action: What Will You Now Do to Ensure You Are Prepared For Every Possibility During Organizational Change?
Synopsis
Interactive Discussion Session Facilitated by the Chair
TRACK B
Rethinking the Hybrid Working Environment to Foster a Great Place to Work
11:20 am Discover: Motivating Over Mandating: A Hybrid Workforce to Foster Connections & Drive Innovation
Synopsis
- Rethinking how to build and maintain company culture in a small biotech with a hybrid workforce to grow relationships between locals and non-locals and inspire individuals to come into the office
- Navigating a reduction in workforce by incorporating alumni to ensure employees are supported beyond their internal employment
- UNITY Biotechnology reveals how they are engaging their employees across states and facilitating connections to draw individuals to come into the office while ensuring the time spent there is fun and inspiring
11:40 am Discover: Crafting Future Focused Engagement Surveys for Shaping Strategies to Foster a Great Place to Work
Synopsis
- Formulating engagement surveys which drill down on aspects of engagement that make the biggest difference in a young and scaling company environment
- Utilizing engagement survey data to influence the strategy for creating a great place to work and reduce employee turnover
- Understand how Poseida Therapeutics are innovating approaches to engagement surveys and utilizing the information to prioritize what matters most to employees
12:00 pm Develop: What More Can We Learn from HR Leaders Successfully Navigating Hybrid Working and Fostering a Great Place to Work in 2023?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
12:20 pm Action: What Actions Are You Going to Implement to Improve Your Hybrid Working Model & Foster a Great Place to Work
Synopsis
Interactive Discussion Session Facilitated by the Chair
12:20 Networking Lunch
1:40 pm
Speed Learning
Synopsis
In this quick fire session, each table will be hosted by an HR leader who will share the secrets of their most high-impact leap; you then get the opportunity to question the host before moving on to your next table.
Speaking Truth to Power: How Do You Utilize Your Leadership Role as a HR Professional to Influence Your Executives
Driving DE&I Through Deeper Partnership with CSR – An Obvious, Under-utilized Partnership
Thriving in Flat Structures: Rewarding & Recognizing Employee Growth, Development & Career Progression
Aligning Your Compensation & Benefits Strategy to 2023 Talent Expectations
Nurturing the Hybrid Working Environment by Ensuring Flexible Policies & Refreshing Leadership Expectations to Maintain Company Culture
When the Money Runs Out: Leading the Company Through WARN, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy & Beyond