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7:15 am Conference Registration & Breakfast
7:30 am Discover: Leading with Heart & Data: How Hackensack Meridian Health Built Leadership Capacity to Achieve Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for Recognition
- Redefining what it means to build a culture where every team member feels seen, valued and supported
- Intentionally investing in leadership capacity to ignite measurable improvements in engagement and recognition across large, complex healthcare organizations
- How Hackensack Meridian Health implemented a data-driven strategy centred on consistent and meaningful attention, which led to a dramatic increase in trust, manager effectiveness, and recognition across the network, contributing to its reputation as a national leader in workplace culture
7:50 am Discover: How AltaMed’s New Approach to Employee Engagement & Development Earnt it its First Great Place to Work Certification
- What needs to change about how we approach employee engagement in healthcare over the next 3-5 years?
- Rethinking how we enhance communication to our frontline employees and evolve our recognition strategies for a multi-generational workforce
- Uncover the key components of AltaMed’s people strategy which enabled it to impact employee development and engagement, and earn a ‘Great Place to Work’ status in under two years
8:10 am Develop: What Traditional HR Thinking Most Needs to be Challenged the Most to Enable Us to Enhance Our Overall Offering as Healthcare Employers?
Join a live Q&A exploring how Hackensack Meridan Health and AtlaMed are rethinking the way elevate their EVP for their team members. This is your opportunity to ask questions, unpack key lessons, and gain practical insights into the case studies you’ve just heard.
8:30 am Action: What Are You Now Going to Stop, Start & Continue to Do to Transform Your EVP?
Join fellow breakfast deep dive attendees to unpack the insights and explore how the culture and care initiatives you’ve just heard can be adapted to your organization’s unique context. Collaborate to identify practical starting points, potential barriers, and strategies for making necessary change.
Interactive Peer-Led Discussion Facilitated by the Chair
8:50 am Close of Breakfast Deep Dive
Breaking Away From the Status Quo to Re-Ignite HR Impact Across Your Hospitals
9:15 am Discover: How Main Line Health’s Workforce Operating Review Has Enabled the System to Ensure HR Priorities Became Operational Priorities
- What do we need to do more of to ensure that each hospital and each leader has a dedicated people plan that they are held accountable for?
- Applying the rigor of finance quarterly reviews to help us better measure key HR priorities such as engagement and turnover
- How Main Line Health’s workforce operating review has led to an increased accountably and awareness amongst its leaders of key HR metrics for the past two years
9:35 am Discover: Questioning & Breaking Away from the Status Quo to Optimize Traditional Processes & Re-Ignite HR Impact Within Your Health System
- What needs to change about how we approach and prioritize the areas of our HR strategy which need updating the most, and maintain engagement in our teams during seasons of rapid change and challenge?
- Building the frameworks which will enable us to challenge the status quo and drive accountability across all departments to rebuild momentum within complex healthcare organizations
- Uncover how Williamson Health identified and optimized some of its most traditional HR processes to transform crucial outcomes such as cutting time to fill and reducing contract labor by 60% in two years
9:55 am Develop: What Traditional Thinking Needs Challenging the Most to Enable Us to Genuinely Transform the Impact We Have on Our Hospitals?
Join a live Q&A exploring how Main Line Health and Williamson Health are evolving and elevating the impact HR has for their team members and stakeholders. This is your opportunity to ask questions, unpack key lessons, and gain practical insights into the case studies you’ve just heard.
10:15 am Action: What Are You Now Going to Stop, Start & Continue to Do to Transform the Impact Your HR Function Has By 2030?
Join fellow breakfast deep dive attendees to unpack the insights and explore how the HR transformation initiatives you’ve just heard can be adapted to your organization’s unique context. Collaborate to identify practical starting points, potential barriers, and strategies for making necessary change
Interactive Peer-Led Discussion Facilitated by the Chair
10:35 am Networking & Refreshments
Embedding Innovation Into the Heart of Your Talent Attraction Strategies
11:10 am Discover: How Novant Health Are Re-Inspiring & Re-Energizing Their Frontline Workforce to Transform How They Attract for & Retain Their Most Demand Positions
- What more do we need to do to fully embed innovation at the heart of our workforce attraction and development strategies?
- Rethinking how we can re-inspire our frontline workforce with the new benefits and development pathways which will boost retention
- How Novant Health’s ‘Future Forward’ strategy has created new healthcare career leaders which are providing their team members with fresh development opportunities whilst filling much needed positions for the organization
11:30 am Develop: What More Can We Learn from the Talent Leaders Embedding Innovation Into How We Re-Inspire the Healthcare Workforce?
Join a live Q&A exploring how Novant Health is leveraging new development opportunities to fill in demand positions. This is your opportunity to ask questions, unpack key lessons, and gain practical insights into the case study you’ve just heard.
11:50 am Action: What Are You Now Going to Do to Transform the Connection Between Talent Development & Talent Acquisition?
Join fellow attendees to unpack the insights and explore how the initiative you’ve just heard can be adapted to your organization’s unique context. Collaborate to identify practical starting points, potential barriers, and strategies for making necessary change.
Interactive Peer-Led Discussion Facilitated by the Chair
12:30 pm Networking Lunch
Speed Learning
1:30 pm Setting Yourself Up for Success in 2027
In this quick-fire session, four people leaders will share a live challenge that they ae working through in their business. Each table will be hosted by an HR leader who will share the details of how they are approaching that challenge; you then get the opportunity to question the host and talk through solutions before moving on to your next table.
- Session I (With Natasha): Rethinking How to Build a More Integrated & Sustainable Employee Value Proposition Across Our Hospitals
- Session II (With Norma): Re-Imagining the CHROs Role in Delivering a New Workforce Plan Which Aligns with the Changing Direction of Our Organizations
- Session III (With Kimberlee): Transforming How We Engage & Retain Your Caregivers During Times of Budgetary Constraints
- Session IV (With Len): The New Approaches to Workforce Planning Enabling Us to Identify Stress Points Across Our Patient Facing Workforce