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Houston CHRO Inner Circle
June 21, 2018 | Petroleum Club of Houston
June 21, 2018
Petroleum Club of Houston
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with your peers to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the Houston CHRO Inner Circle.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CHROs today:
Leading through a new employee experience
Redesigning HR strategies, structures, and service delivery models
Modernizing mental health and well-being programs in a new era of work
Houston CHRO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CHROs, for CHROs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
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Bill Ennis
Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd.
CHRO
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Mel Guerra-Reeves
Direct Energy
EVP, Human Resources & Internal Communications
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Mayerland Harris
H-E-B Food Stores
Group VP, Human Resources
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Larry Stokes
Texas Medical Center
SVP, Shared Services
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Shibu Varghese
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
VP & CHRO
Agenda
June 21, 2018
4:00pm - 5:00pm Registration & Opening Reception
5:00pm - 6:30pm Discussion Topics
Elevating Leadership for the HR of Tomorrow
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Tracy Pawlak
VP, Human Resources
DXP Enterprises, Inc.
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Laura Ramey
SVP, Human Resources and Communications
SGS North America Inc.
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Aaron Sobel
VP, HR & CHRO
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.
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Jason Anderson
Vice President, Human Resources
Rowan Companies, Inc.
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Mayerland Harris
Group VP, Human Resources
H-E-B Food Stores
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Sally Vardy
CHRO
Harris County Appraisal District
Brady Pyle
Director of Human Resources
NASA Headquarters
Research shows top-performing companies are twice as likely to understand talent issues. This fosters a culture where the CHRO expands talent conversations and adopts emerging technologies to boost the bottom line. The HR leader of tomorrow is someone who builds strategic partnerships across the C-suite while embracing change and disruption. In this dinner conversation, CHROs will explore challenges and exchange best practices for a discipline that is rapidly evolving and gaining investor interest.
Topic 1: Unsheathing Analytics in the War Against Talent
- How have you leveraged analytics to make better decisions or impact the bottom line (staffing, training, retention, engagement, D&I, etc.)?
- What questions are you trying to answer next with talent analytics? What is your plan to take this next step in your analytics program?
- Have you employed predictive modeling in your analytics program? If so, what was your roadmap to make the transition into more sophisticated analytics?
Topic 2: Partnering With Your C-suite Peers
- Which C-suite partnerships have you been most active in building and why (CIO for learning strategies, CMO for HR branding, etc.)?
- Which C-suite peers do you want to forge stronger partnerships with and why? What is your approach to initiating collaboration and designing cross-functional strategic plans?
- What success have you had in refocusing senior leadership or board conversations to concentrate on key talent risks? How do you embed talent into the CXO’s decision-making process?
Topic 3: Navigating and Leveraging Digital Transformation
- How has your role and HR organization evolved alongside digital transformation initiatives in the business? Have you adopted an agile approach to HR delivery and advancement?
- What technologies have you implemented to develop a next-generation system for the business?
- How have you aligned employee-engagement strategies with digital transformation in the business?
6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking Break
7:00pm - 8:00pm Summary Discussion & Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Social Hour
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