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8:00 am Conference Registration & Breakfast
8:15 am Chair’s Welcoming, Recap of Day 1
8:30 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
8:50 am Discover: How Cooper University Health Care Transformed Its Approach to Team Member Development to Boost Engagement Scores from the 30th to the 70th Percentile
- What do we need to stop, start and continue to do to genuinely move the needle in the engagement of all our clinical and non-clinical employees?
- Rethinking the impact of workforce and leadership development programs in how we re-energize our people
- Uncover the key elements behind how Cooper Health’s doubled its engagement scores for more than 14,000 team members, physicians, and advanced providers
9:10 am Discover: Presentation Reserved for Stepful
9:30 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.
9:50 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
10:10 am Morning Break
Breaking Away From the Status Quo to Re-Ignite HR Impact Across Your Hospitals
10:40 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
11:00 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 Children's of Alabama identified and optimized some of its most traditional HR processes
11:40 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 Children's of Alabama 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.
12:00 pm 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
12:20 pm Partner Spotlight: Leading Through Change: How Leadership Readiness Shapes Recruiting & Retention Outcomes
- This session is designed to help HR, Talent Acquisition, and executive leaders understand how leadership readiness becomes the determining factor in recruiting and retention outcomes during periods of sustained change in healthcare.
12:30 pm Lunch & Networking
Embedding Innovation Into the Heart of Your Talent Attraction Strategies
1:30 pm 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
1:50 pm Discover: The Talent Pipeline You Haven’t Turned On Yet
The hidden barriers preventing your workforce from becoming your next generation of nurses.
In this session, we’ll explore why healthcare doesn’t have a talent acquisition problem – it has a workforce supply problem – and what leading health systems are doing differently.
Through real-world case studies, you’ll see how organizations are:
- Building internal pipelines of licensed nurses from their existing workforce
- Reducing dependence on external labor markets
- Turning education investment into predictable workforce supply
You’ll leave with a clear framework to assess your current strategy and three practical moves to make in the next 12 months.
2:10 pm 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.
2:30 pm 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
2:40 pm Partner Spotlight: The Indeed Dependency Problem: How to Turn Your Career Site into a High- Intent Hiring Channel
- Why 60%+ of career site visitors leave without applying — and how a candidate conversion platform fixes that
- How health systems are scaling career site volume to reduce Indeed dependency – without sacrificing the applicant flow they need to hire
- Why career site applicants are hired at 3x the rate of Indeed applicants
- What it looks like to convert candidates through the channels that actually work (text vs. email) and why timing is everything
2:50 pm Networking & Refreshments
Speed Learning
3:10 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