Finding Our Way from Opinions to Civility: (re)Building a Supportive Community

Robin Abrahams, Psychologist and Author

Adam Rosendahl, CEO & Founder, Late Nite Art

Elizabeth Solomon, Facilitator, Late Nite Art

Pre-program: Managing Stress and Buidling Resilience presented by Cheryl Jacobs, Executive Director - Executive Coach, Advisor, Leadership Developer & Facilitator, MCG Partners

CHRO/Rising HR Star Panel - Tackling HR's Toughest Challenges

Allison Erickson - New England Donor Services

Kristen Stants - Fog Pharma

Maeghan Sulham - Putnam Associates

Bethany Rossi - Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Emily Sweeney - Cengage Group

April Tyndall - TScan Therapeutics

End Exhausting Conversations – A new approach to Co-Creating Great Work and Great Workplaces

Cy Wakeman, President & Founder, Reality-Based Leadership

Pre-program: Unlocking the Power of Intrinsic Motivation in the Workplace presented by Veronica Barber, MS, EdD, Lecturer and Assistant Chair of the Management Department, Bentley University

Navigating Career Transitions: Insights and Strategies For HR Executives Session #2

Wende Malster, Co-Founder, M2 Partners

Janet Mullert, Co-Founder, M2 Partners

Laura Poisson, President, ClearRock

Andrew Sterling, Managing Director, The Nagler Group

Navigating Career Transitions: Insights and Strategies For HR Executives Session #1

Alice Benson, President & CEO, Benson Executive Search

Kim Littlefield, Partner, Keystone Partners

Gretchen O'Brien, Senior Vice President, King & Bishop

AI in Action: Revolutionizing People Strategies Today and the Future

Matt Strain, Founder & Principal, The Prompt

Organizational Health: The Key Difference Between Successful and Mediocre Performance

Veronica Curran, Chief People & Culture Officer, SmartBear

Chuck Mollor, CEO, MCG Partners

Andrea Walton, Chief People Officer, bluebird bio

Art Wood, Senior Vice President and CHRO, Cabot Corporation

Pre-program: High Quality Connections: A Foundation for Networks that Work presented by Wendy Murphy, Professor of Management & Associate Dean, Undergraduate School, Babson College

Taking The Mystery Out of Mergers and Acquisitions

Ron Cooper, President and CEO, Albireo Pharma

Michelle Graham, CHRO, MBX Biosciences, Inc.

Pre-program: What CEOs Are Looking for in CHROs Today presented by Alice Benson, Founder & CEO, Benson Executive Search

AI is Revolutionizing HR: What it means for you!

Kevin Martin, Chief Research Officer, Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp)

What Is an Organization’s Role in Taking a Stand on Social Issues?

Moderated by Laura Poisson, President, ClearRock

Panelists:

Greg Almieda, Founder & CEO, GVC - an inclusion business strategy firm

Andy Freed, CEO, Virtual Inc.

Angela Harrell SVP, Chief Diversity & Corporate Impact Officer and Foundation President, Voya

Sandy Lish, Principal/Co-Founder, The Castle Group

Community Building: The Art of Turning a Crowd into a Community

Presenters:

Adam Rosendahl, CEO & Founder, Late Nite Art

Elizabeth (Liz) Solomon, Facilitator, Late Nite Art

CHRO Panel - Tackling HR's Toughest Challenges

Panelists:

Lisa Britt, SVP, CHRO, Thermo Fisher Scientific and the 2023 HR Leadership Award winner

Ron Arigo, SVP, CHRO, AAA Northeast and the 2023 HR Leadership Award of Distinction winner

Linda Arsenault, SVP, CHRO, Sumitomo Pharma America and the 2023 HR Leadership Award of Distinction winner

Kadesh Simms Conroy, Chief People and Culture Officer, Jewish Vocational Services or Boston and the 2023 HR Leadership Award of Distinction winner

Pre-program: Get Comfortable with Discomfort - Leveraging the Power of Doubt presented by Cheryl Jacobs, SVP, Executive Coach, Leadership Developer & Facilitator, MCG Partners

Diversity Resistance In The Workplace: What's it all about and how do we deal with it?

Moderated by Greg Almeida, Founder and CEO, GVC

Panelists:

Sandra Cotterell, Chief Executive Officer, Codman Square Health Center

Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, Executive Director, Lawyers for Civil Rights

Paul Francisco, Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer, State Street Corporation

Tissa Hami, Founder and Principal, Korsi Consulting

Ted Harding, Former Sr. Vice President, Human Resources, Jounce Therapeutics, Inc.

Michael L. James, Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Cambridge Health Alliance

Nancy Joyce, Global Account Director and Head of Operations, PDT Global

Marianne Monte, Chief People and Administration Officer, Shawmut Design and Construction

Christopher Oddleifson, Executive Advisor, Rockland Trust

Scott Roberts, Co-Managing Partner, Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP

The Future of Reward & Recognition

Ashley Whillians, Author, Speaker, Coach & Consultant

Modern Talent Review and Succession Planning: Exclusive Views from Three of Boston’s Top Talent Leaders and their Companies

Mike Glass, Vice President, Global Talent, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Lisa Considine, Vice President of Talent, Boston Scientific

Stephen Dwight, Chief Talent Officer, Takeda

LGBTQA+ Community Participation in the Racial Justice Movement

Emmett G. Price III, Ph.D., Dean of Africana Studies, Berklee College of Music

Rev. Irene Monroe, Speaker, Theologian, Syndicated Columnist

Step Up and Step In: The New Role of HR Leadership

John R. Childress, Chairman, PYXIS Culture Technologies

Psychological Safety: What It Is and How to Create It

Dr. Constance Noonan Hadley, Organizational Psychologist and Lecturer at the Boston University Questrom School of Business

HRLF HR Leadership Awards in honor of Bob Gatti

 

Preventing Burnout in the New Future of Work

Jennifer Moss, Writer, Speaker, Strategist

The 21st Century Workforce Revolution: WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!

Dr. Anthony Klotz, Organizational Psychologist

Emotional Intelligence: Leadership in a Hybrid World

Rob Toomey, President, TypeCoach LLC

What progress have we made in DEI since the murder of George Floyd?

Panel Discussion with Chevy Cleaves, Pranam Lipinski, Chiavone Mobley and Moderated by Greg Almieda

Say "Yes, And!" for HR Leaders

Avish Parashar, Motivational Speaker

I'm a Good Person! Isn't That Enough?

Debby Irving, Racial Justice Educator and Writer

Nine Lies About Work Today

Marcus Buckingham, Bestselling Author and Leading Expert on Talent and Employee Engagement, Current Head of People + Performance Research at the ADP Research Institute

Pre-program: What is Your Culture Now? presented by Chuck Mollor, Founder and CEO, MCG Partners

Neurodiversity in Our Workplaces: Maximizing Accessibility, Equity, & Inclusion

Hiren Shukla, Americas Automation & Innovation/Neuro-Diverse CoE Leader at Ernst & Young

Prepare Your Organization for Disruption

Tony Hunter, Chairman & CEO McClatchy Co; President, TWH Enterprises

Pre-program: Retention in a COVID/Remote World presented by Matt Nagler, The Nagler Group

The BIG Disruption: Learning to Manage (and embrace) Gen Z

Pranam Lipinski, Co-Founder, Door of Clubs

It Ain't Over Until It's Over: Pandemic Update - Variants, Vaccines, & Return to Facilities

Regina Phelps, Founder, Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc.

The Most Important Thing

Andy Bernstein, Founder & CEO, The Resilience Academy

HRLF Speakeasy

Dan Diachenko,Culture Engineer, PeopleProductive

Building Belonging: Race, Allyship and Work in a Time of Crisis

Howard Ross,Author, Social Justice Activist, Co-Founder Urdata

The Future of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: What's to Come

Sabrina Williams,Chief Inclusion Officer, Curriculum Associates

The Discomfort of Diversity: The Story of Diversity and the Chapters We Leave Out

Angela Harrell, SVP, Corporate Responsibility, Diversity & Inclusion, Voya Financial®

Who You Are is How You Lead: Developing the Best in You to Develop the Best in Others

Pamela McLean, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder of The Hudson Institute of Coaching

COVID-19 Pandemic: Planning the Re-entry Phase, Restarting Your Organization

Regina Phelps, President, Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc.

Rethink Leadership Development

David Rock, Co-founder and CEO of The NeuroLeadership Institute

Navigating Our New Normal in the Workplace

Kelly Mann, Manager of Workplace Strategy and Change Management, Cushman & Wakefield

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at a Time of Racial Reckoning

Greg Almieda, Founder and CEO of Global View Communications

HRLF Unplugged

Better Together: Designing Just and Equitable Workplaces

Paul Francisco,Global Chief Diversity Officer, State Street Corporation
Stephanie Franklin,SVP & CHRO, Vertex

HRLF unConference

Rx for COVID Fatigue: Where We Are and Considerations for Where We're Likely Going

Regina Phelps, Founder, Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc.

THE REMIX: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace

Lindsey Pollak, Multigenerational Work Expert

Employee Activism and Corporate Social Accountability

Sheena Collier, Founder & CEO, Boston While Black and the Collier Connection
Emerson Foster, Vice President of Human Resources, North America and Global Strategic Accounts for the Corporate Services Division of Sodexo
Greg Almieda, Founder & CEO of GVC, an inclusion business strategy firm
Juna Pierre, SPHR,President, NAAAHR New England

Every Choice Has a Consequence - Designing an Ethical Culture

Chuck Gallagher, President, Chuck Gallagher Associates

Gender/Transgender Sensitivity and Inclusion

Mason J. Dunn,Executive Director at Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, Co-Chair of the Freedom Massachusetts Coalition

Unconference + Book Swap

Hot Topics - The View from the Bridge: HR Leaders Tell it Like it Is (and Will Be!)

Donna Bonaparte, Vice President Human Resources/Chief Human Resources Officer, Babson College
Kathy Blake McCann, Ph.D. Chief Human Resources Officer, Commonwealth Care Alliance
Brendan Reidy, Chief Human Resources Officer, Acushnet Company
Marc Reuss, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Excelitas Technologies

Leading People in Business Transformation

Patty Azzarello, Founder, Azzarello Group

What CEOs and Boards Want From HR

Ram Charan, President, Charan Associates, Inc.

Mental Health Issues and Gun Violence in the Workplace

Dr. Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice; Chief Research Officer of the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine, Brown University
Jonathan Miller, Chief, Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau Organization, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office

Bridging the Digital Divide in the Workplace

Laurie Ruettimann, Writer, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Podcaster

HRLF Bob Gatti HR Leadership Excellence Award Ceremony and Reception

The Impact of New Technologies on Society and Work in 2030

Devin Fidler, Founder, Rethinkery Labs

HRLF Unconference

Silence is a Statement: Understanding Race in the Workplace

Allison Manswell, CPLP, Path Forward Consulting

Bring Your Whole Self to Work: How to Bring All of Who We Are to the Work that We Do

Mike Robbins, Author

Organization Design: A Practitioner’s Perspective

Susan J. Colby,Director, Human Resources, Alkermes, Inc.
Tom Harvey,SVP Information Technology, Chief Information Officer,Alkermes, Inc.
Kristen Parr, Vice President and General Manager, Alkermes, Inc.
Harold Weekes, Director, Human Resources, Alkermes, Inc.

Closing the Gap Between Men’s and Women’s Retention Rates: The BCG Experience

Michelle Stohlmeyer Russell, Senior Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
Frances Brooks Taplett,Global People Director,The Boston Consulting Group

HRLF Bob Gatti HR Leadership Excellence Awards Ceremony & Networking Social

“Counter-trends” – The Real Facts about Some Popular HR Trends and What You Should Do Instead

Marc Effron, President, The Talent Strategy Group

Cultural Agility & Change: Scaling "Performance Development" at GE

Janice L. Semper, Manager, Executive Development in GE Corporate

Leadership Accountability

Vince Molinaro, Ph.D., Global Managing Director, Strategic Solutions, Lee Hecht Harrison
Barbara Meens Thistle, VP, Central Services, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

HRLF Unconference

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

Erin Meyer, Culture Map Inc., Author of The Culture Map, Business school Professor at INSEAD

Program: HR Strategy and Millennial Engagement; Bob Gatti HR Leadership Excellence Award(s) & Social

Alec Levenson, Ph.D., Economist and Senior Research Scientist, Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Visual Thinking and Innovation

Dabney Hailey, Founder and Principal, Hailey Consulting Group, LLC

Reclaiming Conversation - Featuring Sherry Turkle

What The HR Professional Needs To Know About Organizational Design

Amy Kates, Managing Partner, Kates Kesler Organization Consulting and Greg Kesler, Managing Partner, Kates Kesler Organization Consulting

The Future of HR and Emerging HR Leadership

Eva Sage-Gavin, Vice Chair, Aspen Institute’s Skills for America’s Future Advisory Board and Ian Ziskin, President of Exec Excel Group, LLP

Organizational Strategy & Learning

Jason Wingard, Dean and Professor of the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University

HRLF Unconference

Innovative Approaches to Performance Management: The Deloitte and GAP Stories
Rob Ollander-Krane, Senior Director Organization Performance Effectiveness, GAP and Erica Bank, Leader, Performance Management, Deloitte

Optimizing Organizational Performance: How to Apply Analytics to Big Data to Improve Human Capital

Gene Pease, Founder, Vestrics

Working with Boards

Brian Kropp, Managing Director, CEB

The Leader in 2020 (TM)

Kevin Mulcahy, Strategic Partner, Future Workplace LLC andJeanne Meister, Founding Partner, Future Workplace LLC

Big Data and the Future of HR

DAVID BERNSTEIN, VICE PRESIDENT, EQUEST andJASON AVERBOOK, CEO, THE MARCUS BUCKINGHAM COMPANY

The Healthcare Transformation: Organization and HR Impacts

Deb Hicks, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Dana Farber; Mark Gaunya, Principal, Borislow Insurance; Robert Saper, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, BU School of Medicine; Mark Griffin, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, CVS/caremark

Think to Win: Unleash the Power of Strategic Thinking

Paul Butler, Founder and President of GlobalEdg LLC.

Mindfulness: Enhancing Productivity by Cultivating Quality of the Mind

Jeremy Hunter, Assistant Professor, Drucker School of Management

Strategic Leadership Challenge: Dare to be Bad

Frances Frei, Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School

The Entrepreneurs Inside Project: Entrepreneurial Success within Organizations

Heidi Neck, PhD, Associate Professor and Jeffry A. Timmons Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College

The New Consumer of Work...How HR Leaders are Essential to the Talent Brand

Libby Sartain, Author and HR Consultant

Creating a Strong Performance Culture

Scott Keller, Senior Partner, and Carolyn Dewar, Partner at McKinsey & Company

Cracking the Code: The Gender Intelligent Organization

Barbara Annis, Founder and CEO of Barbara Annis & Associates, Inc.

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

Liz Wiseman, Leadership Educator and Bestselling Author

A Bigger Prize: Increasing Creativity and Results by Challenging the Value of Competition

Margaret Heffernan, Entrepreneur, CEO, Writer and Keynote Speaker

Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economics

Dr. Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer at MIT

Positive Intelligence (PQ): Why it matters more than IQ or EQ

Shirzad Chamine, Chairman & CEO

Behind the Scenes of Getting to Best: A Conversation with MGH Leadership

Jeanette Ives Erickson, RN, DNP, FAAN, Chief Nurse and Senior Vice President for Patient Care and Steve Taranto, Director of Human Resources at Mass General Hospital

Why Smart Executives Fail

Sydney Finkelstein, Associate Dean for Executive Education, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Plays for Living: A Live Drama and Facilitated Discussion

Keith McHenry, Executive Director, Plays for Living

Gen Me: What's Up with America's Most Entitled, Confident, Assertive, and Miserable Generation of Workers?

Jean Twenge, PhD, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University

Behavioral Economics and HR...Links, Predictors, and Other Topics

Cade Massey, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business

Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your Work and Your World

Sam Sommers, Author, Professor and Researcher of Social Psychology at Tufts University

The Global Economy and Its Impact on Workers and Work

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics at BU, President, Economic Security Planning

Chasing Stars: Fact and Myth on the Portability of Talent

Boris Groysberg, Professor at Harvard Business School

Leadership Imperatives: Managing Self, Networks, and Teams

Linda A. Hill, Professor and Faculty Chair at Harvard Business School

Building Social Capital by Leveraging Connectors within Organizational Networks

Karen Stephenson, President, NetForm

Shared Wisdom Builds Organizational Capacity: A Community Learning Dialogue

Beverly Kaye, CEO, Career Systems International and Lynn Gauthier, Vice President of Human Resources at Philips Healthcare

The More Things Change... New Approaches to an Old Challenge

Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer and George Roth, Principal Research Associate at MIT Sloan School of Management

What Makes a Company Best to Work For?

David A. Kaplan, Contributing Editor at Fortune Magazine and Lisa Bender, VP & Chief Human Resources Officer at The MITRE Corporation

Entrepreneurial Thought and Action: What is it and How Will it Impact Organizations of the Future?

Leonard Schlesinger, President at Babson College and Peter Mulford, Global Partner at BTS

The Cost of Bad Behavior: How Incivility is Damaging Your Business/Organization an What To Do About It

Christine Pearson, Professor of Management at Thunderbird School of Global Management and Christine Porath, Assistant Professor of Management at Marshall School of Business, USC

Resonant Leadership: Inspiring Us to Be Our Best

Richard Boyatzis, Professor at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Blindspot: The Hidden Biases of Good People

Mahzarin R. Banaji, Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University

Bringing Peace into the Room: Managing Workforce Conflict

David Hoffmann, Lecturer at Boston Law Collaborative, LLC & Harvard University

It's Not Just a Great Perk...Exercise, Cognition, and Productivity

John Ratey, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School