Empowering Employee Networks Conference 2023

Please join us for this special annual forum, aimed at helping our audience develop a deeper understanding of how the impact of a well run DEI structure can improve operational performance while also enriching the community. WBJ’s Diversity & Inclusion Forum serves to educate and inspire business and community leaders on how to deliver meaningful cultural change and positive business results through their DEI work. In today's rapidly changing business landscape, embracing diversity, equity and inclusion is a strategic advantage and a powerful driver for business performance, growth, and innovation. Our panel will feature an insightful discussion with seasoned business professionals who are navigating the journey of fostering diversity, equity and inclusion within their organizations. Our panelists will share their insights, experiences, and best practices for cultivating a workplace culture that values and respects differences, leading to increased innovation, employee engagement, and business success.

Analytics takes recruitment to the next level through data that provides the basis for better informed hiring decisions, finding new talent, and improving your quality of hire. With the right data, analytics can even bring in a substantial number of qualified candidates, monitor your talent pipelines, and find the log jams in the system.

The rapid acceleration of AI and automation coupled with redefining candidate expectations about work and changing job search behaviors are creating both tremendous challenges and opportunities for employers. New technologies are revolutionizing how practitioners do their jobs, bringing greater insights and efficiencies that benefit employers and candidates alike. New social and digital channels are changing how people discover careers, requiring new approaches to how companies attract and engage talent. Now is the time to assess your plan for 2024 and ensure that your team has the right strategies, technologies, processes and skills in order to compete and win in this age of Talent Acquisition Innovation.

Human Resources professionals are faced with constant change as their organizations work to advance goals, develop projects, and shape the corporate culture of senior management and its workforce. It falls to them to implement strategies from the top down, and also to understand feedback and input from grassroots and frontline workers. Human Resources bridges divides between individuals, teams, departments, and jurisdictions that otherwise may have little direct contact. Strategic human resources management encompasses many trends, including talent acquisition, development, and retention, digital transformation, the ‘New Normal of Work, outsourcing HR, new thinking on human capital management, and so many other issues and ideas. CHROs and other HR executives need to innovate and collaborate as they engage individually and collectively with new and ongoing challenges and opportunities.