Register here! Date & Time: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 2:00pm ET Speaker: Dan Shields, CEO of Digital Medicine, Ochsner Health Tiffany Stevenson, Chief People Officer, WeightWatchers Sponsored by: Description: You’ve worked hard to build a strong company culture and eliminate bias within your workplace. But have you addressed one of the most prevalent—weight bias? If you’ve overlooked weight bias, you’re not alone. The landscape and science of weight health has rapidly changed, and as employers, it can be challenging to navigate. Poor weight health is the root of many chronic conditions ..read more

Tanya Reu-Narvaez has a long tenure in HR and at her current company, Anywhere Real Estate, where she’s been for 22 years; however, that longevity doesn’t mean she leans into tradition. In fact, she is committed to being an HR leader who “drops textbook HR” practices, driving innovation through “next-level HR” at Anywhere. - Advertisement - She’s bringing that growth mentality to the company’s recent transformation, with a revamped brand and purpose designed to more closely align its 8,000 employees across its six international real estate brands—including Century 21 and Coldwell Banker—a ..read more

In the world of HR transformation, senior leaders often find themselves on a precarious tightrope. On one side, there’s the need to build organizational capacity, ensuring that teams have enough resources, infrastructure and bandwidth to execute the business’ strategic initiatives. On the other side, there is the ongoing need to cultivate capability, equipping teams with the skills, knowledge and agility to drive meaningful change. - Advertisement - In our work with the C-suite, we’ve been witness to the struggle to reconcile these two (sometimes) competing priorities. With the stakes getting ..read more

The Stockholm-based think tank Future Talent Council found that most organizations in its network intend to increase AI spending, making this a top-level budget item for many companies. However, the group, which includes employers, educators and policymakers from around the world, says that organizations still need to invest in leadership willing to understand the dynamics of artificial intelligence in the workplace. - Advertisement - Data from other organizations supports this philosophy. A 2023 survey of 1,500 managers and 1,500 employees by employee listening leader Perceptyx found that 24 ..read more

The inaugural HR Technology Europe Conference and Expo kicked off in Amsterdam this week to a packed auditorium of HR practitioners eager to hear about what’s new in the rapidly changing realm of employee experience. - Advertisement - In the opening keynote, a panel conversation moderated by The Josh Bersin Co.’s Bo Derksen, global analyst Josh Bersin discussed the evolution and complexity of employee engagement and experience. He reminisced about the time, 15-20 years ago, when employee engagement primarily involved conducting surveys, analyzing the data and using it for corporate purposes. H ..read more

Laszlo Bock likely inspired countless business minds with his work at Google—including one of this year’s HR’s Rising Stars, Anthony Ormsbee-Hale, senior vice president of strategic operations at Civitas Senior Living. At the time, when Ormsbee-Hale stumbled upon a book by Bock in an airport bookstore about his work to innovate the tech giant’s people operations, he was in a sales and marketing role at the senior living management company. - Advertisement - “I had an operations background, and I loved the idea of being able to create organizational strategy and help support leaders,” he says ..read more

A peek into the minds of human resource business leaders reveals that gen AI adoption doesn’t depend on agility with any specific tool—but it does require a capable leadership approach and a plan to get started. - Advertisement - That’s what three leaders in distinct businesses—a global law firm, a leadership organization and a digital education provider—shared recently with Human Resource Executive. Each organization is using a different platform in its AI adoption rollout. They named ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing Copilot and Perplexity, respectively, as their preferred generative AI engines. They ..read more

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Uzair Qadeer, chief human resources officer for the iconic BBC. Next week, Qadeer will join Esmé Valk, chief human resources officer of Royal Schiphol Group, which owns and operates the Amsterdam airport, and Josh Bersin for a discussion at HR Technology Europe in Amsterdam. Their keynote panel will dive into the transformative impact of AI and technology on the employee experience in a conversation led by Bo Derksen, senior advisor and EMEA lead for The Josh Bersin Company. Uzair Qadeer, CHRO of the BBC Qadeer shared with me some ways the BBC uses ..read more

When Matt Murdock—a fictional character in Marvel Comics, commonly known by his alias, Daredevil—was blinded in a childhood accident, the chemicals that blinded him enhanced his other senses to a superhuman level. His hearing became so acute that he was able to identify when people were lying simply by listening to their heartbeat. His sense of touch became so sensitive that he could read print by feeling the raised ink on a page. These senses gave him the spatial awareness to be able to maneuver around Hell’s Kitchen with an acrobat’s skill. - Advertisement - However, the smoothness and lack ..read more

The events of the last several years have combined to elevate the attention and pressure on HR organizations everywhere. Just looking back on the disruptive HR challenges, from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the widespread social justice issues that were at the forefront later that year to the Great Resignation of 2021, tech layoffs of 2022 and a potential recession that has had CEOs on edge for two years … HR organizations across industries and company sizes have been constantly barraged with an ever-expanding set of unprecedented challenges. - Advertisement - Where there is not yet a ..read more