Conference Day Two
7:30 am Registration & Networking
7:40 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Navigating Change: Future-Focused HR Strategies for 2025 & Beyond
8:40 am Interactive Case Study Session: Navigating Change: Future-Focused HR Strategies for 2025 & Beyond
Synopsis
- Exploring how legislative changes and executive orders could impact HR operations, compliance, DEI, and workforce planning.
- What does a forward-looking, agile HR strategy look like in today’s environment—and how can leaders align it to business needs?
- Best practices for optimizing limited resources, making the case for HR investment, and pursuing external funding or grants.
- Strategies to enhance candidate experience, diversify sourcing approaches, and stand out in a competitive talent market.
Adapting to Change: Building Inclusive & Merit-Based Workplaces
9:40 am Discover: Building Inclusive Workplaces Within Government
Synopsis
- Creating diverse and inclusive workspaces and ensuring this is embedded into our culture and incorporated into all elements of our TA strategy including hiring processes, employee experience, and engagement initiatives
- Utilizing data to ensure we are being representative throughout our organization
10:00 am Develop: What More Can We Do to Ensure DEIB is Reflected Across Our Whole Organization & is Truly Integrated into Our Practices?
Synopsis
With a change in administration and executive orders providing a challenge for the case of DEI for HR leaders and as something as top of mind to navigate and be ready
to adapt for when needed, discover how other organizations are taking a standpoint to keep inclusivity at the forefront
10:10 am Panel Discussion : Shaping DEI Strategy for Inclusive Organizational Culture
Synopsis
- Understanding and interpreting new executive orders and keeping updated with emerging direction from the federal government regarding DEI to move forward with our strategy and regroup on what this means for our organizations
- Re-imagining DEI and taking emphasis on merit to build inclusivity throughout our organizations
- Creating diverse and inclusive workspaces and ensuring this is integrated into the core of our values and culture.
10:50 am Networking Break
11:10 am Discover: Modernizing TA Strategy to Reduce Time-To-Hire
Synopsis
- What are the steps we can take to modernize our processes and create a more effective TA strategy that will help us hire the right talent
- faster
- Auditing the whole hiring process and modernizing TA strategy by choosing technology over paper and using data to inform new strategic
- decision making within TA
- Hear how the City of Kansas City overhauled their hiring process to cut their time to hire from 100 days to 62 days
11:30 am Develop: What More Can We Learn from the Leaders Are Transforming Benefit Strategy to Incentivise Employees & Retain Long Standing Talent
Synopsis
As traditional public sector benefits and compensation packages become outdated and retirement incentives no longer appeal to a new generation of candidates, what are some innovative approaches to wellbeing, compensation and benefits we can offer to compete with the private sector?
11:40 am Action: How Can We Do More to Showcase Value to Our Employees & Keep Turnover Low Amidst Private Sector Competition?
Synopsis
- How can we really showcase our public sector benefits to employees to encourage long term tenue?
- What initiatives can we look to implement that can enhance wellbeing and provide more support for our employees?
Making the Leap from Union to HR
11:50 am Discover: Making the Leap from Labor Union President to HR Director: 8 Lessons Learned Along the Way
Synopsis
- Stop your limiting beliefs: your leap might not be a big as you think.
- A down and dirty look at how running a labor union and running your agency’s HR department is really not that different.
- Basic leadership lessons, taught by an in the trenches HR professional.
12:10 pm Develop: How Can Public Sector Leaders Leverage Union Experience to Lead in HR?
12:20 pm Action: How Can Government Professionals use their Labor Experience to Drive HR Innovation?
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 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.
- Leveraging Technology to Improve Efficiency in Government HR
- Revamping The Recruitment Division To Advance Hiring Efficiencies
- Reigniting Workforce Engagement
- Connecting Stay Interviews to Action