Webinar: RISE! How Human Resources Can Lead the Organization Through The Current Humanitarian Crisis And Beyond by The HR Congress

RISE! How Human Resources Can Lead the Organization Through The Current Humanitarian Crisis And Beyond

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Just as the global COVID pandemic began to abate, the military incursion in Ukraine again both unified and disrupted the entire world. Unity was evidenced by an unprecedented UN vote of 141 to 5 condemning Russian aggression. Disruption is evidenced in exacerbated mental health, HR, and leadership challenges in organizations everywhere.

The worldwide humanitarian aid response has been incredible and HR professionals are positioned to apply their professional knowledge and skills to create sustained human capability agendas focused on:

• Individual employees.
HR professionals care for and inspire employees, helping them stabilize emotions, focus on enduring values, access support and resources, and contribute meaningfully to empowering others.
• Organizational social responsibility.
HR leads out in helping organizations collaborate with relief agencies; work with governments to enact positive regulatory policies; train, place, or hire those in need of work; participate in creating job banks; match personal financial donations; and encourage sabbaticals and volunteer service.
• Leaders and leadership.
HR can coach and facilitate leaders at all levels to set a vision of commitment to service, communicate with both words and action, create the right organization culture of service and responsibility, and model compassion and active engagement.

These few ideas provide a glimpse into how HR professionals can and do contribute to the emerging blueprint for HR’s agenda to create value.

The webinar will explore how HR professionals can rise to the current challenges and take specific actions to help individual employees, organizations, and leaders. It will include HR thought leaders with firsthand experience in making a difference in this crisis.

Agenda

4:00-4:05 PM – Welcome and Introduction - Mihaly Nagy
4:05-5:00 PM – Keynote - Dave & Wendy Ulrich
05:00-05:25 PM – Panel Discussion: HR Rising To The Challenge - leading with impact
5:30 PM - Final remarks, end of Session

Presenters

Wendy Ulrich

Psychologist at The RBL Group

Wendy Ulrich holds a PhD in education and psychology from the University of Michigan and an MBA from UCLA. She has been a practicing psychologist for over thirty years, was a visiting professor at Brigham Young University and president of the Association of Latter-day Saint Counselors and Psychotherapists, and is the founder of Sixteen Stones Center for Growth. She is an executive trainer and coach with the RBL Group and has authored eight books and many articles on personal and organizational change, She has spoken to 100,000’s of women and serves on the General Council of the Relief Society (a 7 million member women’s organization) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Wendy holds a PhD in education and psychology from the University of Michigan and an MBA specializing in organizational behavior from UCLA.

Dave Ulrich

Professor of Business, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Ranked as the #1 management guru by Business Week, profiled by Fast Company as one of the world’s top 10 creative people in business, a top 5 coach in Forbes, and recognized on Thinkers50 as one of the world’s leading business thinkers, Dave Ulrich has a passion for ideas with impact. In his writing, teaching, and consulting, he continually seeks new ideas that tackle some of the world’s thorniest and longest standing challenges.

Cris Wilbur

Chief People Officer - ROCHE

In 2002, Cris joined Roche as Director of HR at the Diagnostics US headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana (U.S.) and four years later, she was appointed North America Region Head of HR. In 2010, Cris was named Global Head of HR for the Diagnostics Division and relocated to Roche’s worldwide headquarters in Basel, Switzerland before assuming her current role in 2016.
Cris has more than 30 years of experience in business with expertise in People and Culture and in multiple industries, and has her educational background in Finance and Computer Engineering.
She is passionate about the discovery and development of each person's potential to enable sustained business success. Her approach leverages the powerful combination of people’s mindset, capabilities, and ways of working to unlock innovation and agility with organizational resilience. As a leader, she creates strong followership through her vision, authenticity, honesty, and successful track record for achieving excellent results.

Heike Virmond

CHRO, gategroup

Sergio Caredda

former Chief People Officer- OVS S.p.A.

Sergio is an experienced and innovative HR professional dedicated in improving the way organizations achieve results through their people.

Over the years he has worked on many projects in different HR domains, gaining a deep understanding of all key HR processes, from Talent Management to Recruiting, from Organizational Design to Leadership Development, from HR Transformation to HR & Payroll Systems implementation at International level.

Working with Fashion Brands, leading retailer as well as, through consulting, international brands in industries like Banking, Manufacturing, Professional Services at both Headquarter and local level.

Last but not least, Sergio is the creator of HR for Ukraine notion site https://hrforukraine.notion.site/

Mihaly Nagy

Partner, Head of Content - The HR Congress

Founder - The HR Congress magazine and (virtual) event series. Connecting leading HR thinkers and HR Leaders to build humane organizations

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