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Zurich North America

The era of AI has created a $4.4 trillion productivity opportunity, yet many L&amp;D strategies are fundamentally misaligned to capture it . The challenge isn't just about adopting new tech; it's about shifting your entire talent function from a focus on static skills and mindset to continuous, measurable momentum.

This keynote cuts through the surface-level AI talk to deliver a practical framework for senior talent leaders. You'll gain forward-thinking insights on:
<ul>
 	<li>The Dangerous Cost of Cultural Lag: Why an AI strategy without a corresponding culture strategy doesn't just fail, but actively amplifies existing organizational weaknesses.</li>
 	<li>New Rules of Performance: Understand the critical shift from driving for traditional Output to maximizing Contribution, and from building basic Skills to enabling strategic Capabilities.</li>
 	<li>Time as a Talent Advantage: Explore how leaders can deliberately shape a culture where Trust is an action verb and the speed of learning becomes the new competitive edge.</li>
 	<li>The Five Talent Pillars: Review the key areas for transformation—from what you develop and how you deliver it, to how leaders model future-ready behaviors—to create a truly future-ready workforce.</li>
</ul>
Walk away with actionable strategies to move past generic development plans and build the necessary cultural and talent infrastructure to drive measurable business growth in the age of AI.

Developing Talent to Power Growth | From Mindset to Momentum

Integrated Talent Management

Strategy

teri.hart

performance improvement

leadership development

talent development

talent management

cultural transformation

CHIE2025

future-ready workforce

HR transformation

Strategic HR

Trust Building

Business Growth

AI Adoption

L&amp;D strategy

organizational design

strategic capabilities

Versiti

U.S. Coast Guard

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations face continuous change and must adapt to remain competitive. As a C-level executive, it's crucial to develop and maintain a thriving corporate culture that fosters innovation, agility, and resilience. This interactive session will delve into strategies for enhancing skills and nurturing a culture that not only endures change but thrives in it. Through a combination of expert insights and real-world examples, attendees will gain valuable tools to help their organizations flourish in times of change.

Skills & Culture During Times of Change

Future of Work

kery.mortenson

Change Management

agility

strategy

wendy.greeson

bryan.burkhalter

organizational success

insights-wise-2023

skills development

corporate culture

resilience

C-level executives

skill enhancement

Oshkosh Corporation

Wilson Jones was named CEO of Oshkosh Corporation in 2016 and immediately began the journey to a People First Culture, knowing that in order to win in today’s economic climate, you must win with your people. Oshkosh has a rich history of leading-edge product development but had never really invested in people development. Leadership expectations are shifting from managing things to embracing the awesome responsibility of leading people.
The Oshkosh organizational “habits” were steeped in tactics, tasks and scorecards so the shift to truly unleashing the power of the team member requires a paradigm shift for leaders. We will talk about how Learning and Organizational Development is called upon to support the changing expectations of leaders by building comprehensive development strategies bolstered by People First Leadership Competencies and redesigned people processes.

The Role of Learning and Organizational Development in Cultural Transformation

engagement &amp; culture

Engagement &amp; Culture

nancy.pagel

transformation

learning culture

culture

engagement

effective leadership

alignment

employee engagement

organizational development

Four years ago, I wrote CARE to Win with one mission — to help people-first leaders scale human-centered, high-performing teams through the simple, science-backed habits of Clarity, Autonomy, Relationships, and Equity.

A great deal has changed over the past four years. What began as a framework rooted in empathy, neuroscience, and lived leadership experience has evolved through thousands of hours in the field, where training, listening, failing, learning, and growing alongside leaders in organizations worldwide have taken place.

This revised edition of The CARE Equation brings those hard-earned insights to the forefront. It’s not just a refresh. It’s a reflection of what it takes to be an unforgettable leader in today’s increasingly complex workplace.

Since that first edition, CARE has grown far beyond a book:
✅ Registered Clarity, Autonomy, Relationships, and Equity® as a trademark.
✅ Built a full suite of leadership development programs grounded in CARE for all levels of leaders.
✅ Partnered with clients who’ve won Brandon Hall Awards, implementing CARE within their organizations.
✅ Created validated CARE Assessments with measurable ROI and real-world case studies.
✅ Earned major contracts with globally recognized brands, transforming their leaders and culture through CARE.
✅ Designed and delivered transformative keynotes that bring people-first leadership to life, building culture champions from the ground up.

We’ve learned a lot over the past four years, from the science of trust and psychological safety to the realities of leading in hybrid, high-change, tech-driven environments. Every one of those lessons is now woven into this revised edition, available globally for the first time.

CARE to Win delves deeply into the real work of leadership by focusing on what matters most, people.

💡 Manage your biases. Learn how to recognize and interrupt the invisible patterns that erode trust and limit performance. Better self-awareness = better leadership.
💡 Build psychological safety. Discover how to lead teams that speak up, challenge ideas, and thrive, even under pressure.
💡 Act on insight. Access simple, practical frameworks and real-world stories that make it easy to turn “aha” moments into daily leadership habits.

This isn’t theory, it’s what we’ve seen work in the trenches with leaders across industries and continents.

I couldn’t be prouder of what this movement has become, or more excited to share what’s next.

Care to Win: The 4 Leadership Habits to Build High-Performing Teams (Revised Edition)

Leadership

alex.draper

angie.zeigler

performance management

nancy.dome

servant leadership

psychological safety

employee experience

CARE model

emotional intelligence

organizational culture

coaching and mentoring

HR Strategy

Strategic Leadership

Innovation Management

corporate values

team performance

Talent Retention

High Performing Teams

compassionate leadership

leadership habits

angela.howard

Building on its reputation as the most practical, comprehensive, useful, and clearly written handbook on organization development (OD), this new edition of Practicing Organization Development has been thoroughly revised updated to reflect the most recent developments in the field. With contributions from leading OD practitioners and scholars, the book includes a review of the core elements of OD that offers new information on a variety of topics such as leadership transformation and development, questions of inquiry, multi-level strategic change, global compact, positive states of organizing, and OD's role in creating a structure of belonging.

Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change 3rd edition

evidence-based research

tracey.wik

positivity

global

Organization Development

organizational agility

organizational change

OD tools

“Rapid Mass Engagement” by Frank Devine is a transformative guide for modern leaders. It reshapes traditional management by showing how true employee empowerment and bottom‑up engagement drive sustainable growth. With actionable strategies and real-world insights, this book is essential reading for leaders keen to transform corporate culture and ignite innovation.

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Dramatically improve business outcomes through a culture-change strategy that combines proven leadership, engagement, and continuous improvement methods

Providing everything you need to boost individual, team, and organizational performance, Rapid Mass Engagement delivers a new, more effective approach to creating a solid corporate culture that fuels long-term business success.

Continuous improvement expert Frank Devine has been helping top companies develop effective business cultures for decades, and now he shares his secrets with you. Devine walks you through the process of strategically combining leadership, engagement, and continuous improvement to turbocharge profitability and drive business sustainability. Chapters include:
<ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical">
 	<li>Rapid Mass Engagement: Results and Differentiation</li>
 	<li>Culture Change Overview and Methodology</li>
 	<li>Engaging Employees Around Purposeful Work</li>
 	<li>Ownership and Accountability: Why Values Alone are Insufficient</li>
 	<li>Leadership that Moves the Dial</li>
 	<li>Sustainable Change</li>
</ul>
Presenting data and first-hand accounts from senior business leaders proving the effectiveness of his approach in the real world, Devine addresses the yearning for purpose, authenticity, and trust among employees with a bottom-up, socially impactful, commercially realistic approach to social conflict and divisiveness.

Rapid Mass Engagement

future of work

edward.desrosiers

continuous improvement

workforce development

business transformation

HR leadership

Human Capital

Diversity initiatives are falling short. This book shows leaders how to develop the skills needed to build sustainably inclusive organizations using a tested, research-based model developed by the global organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry.

According to the journal Human Resource Management, companies are spending over $8 billion a year on diversity programs. Yet today, the senior leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies are far from mirroring the diversity of their workforce and its customers. Andrés Tapia and Alina Polonskaia, senior leaders at Korn Ferry, argue that to build sustainable diversity and inclusion, organizations need to have inclusive leaders at all levels.

In this book, Tapia and Polonskaia draw on Korn Ferry's massive database of 3 million leadership assessments to reveal the essential qualities of inclusive leaders. They discuss the personality traits these leaders share and detail how to develop what they call the five disciplines of inclusive leadership: building interpersonal trust, integrating diverse perspectives, optimizing talent, applying an adaptive mindset, and achieving transformation.

Tapia and Polonskaia also outline the competencies behind each discipline, describe individual and organizational exemplars of inclusive leadership, and show how the five disciplines enable leaders to unleash the power of all people and to build both structurally and behaviorally inclusive organizations. This book will help leaders foster the skills to deal with today's complex challenges and create a more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous future for all of us.

The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of All of Us

early career

Millennials

growth mindset

chuck.adams

helping managers

diversity &amp; inclusion

genz

andres.tapia

trust

Equitable and Inclusive

evidence-based stategy

diversity

DEIB

george.jifas

teresa.henderson

tanya.hinton

This book offers a new model for creating inclusive organizations and illuminates diversity's vital role in developing solutions to the critical social, environmental, and leadership challenges we face.

While many companies focus on DEI efforts, we must take inclusion to the next level. Our massive social, economic, and environmental challenges can only be solved when organizations and institutions embrace complete inclusion. This book gives organizations practical steps for increasing diversity to enhance their capacity to solve global challenges.

Andres T. Tapia and Fayruz Kirtzman, senior client partners at international consulting powerhouse Korn Ferry, draw on Korn Ferry'sthe company's extensive research to outline five disciplines of inclusive organizations. These are the ability to:
<ol>
 	<li>Managing the risk</li>
 	<li>Exploring the awareness</li>
 	<li>Maximizing the talent systems</li>
 	<li>Mastering the logistics</li>
 	<li>Seeing the marketplace</li>
</ol>
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Based on metrics and proven solutions, this book provides useful strategies for building inclusive organizations. It reveals how such organizations can generate greater innovation, drive business results, optimize talent, and work towards greater social and environmental justice.

The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Organizations: How Diverse and Equitable Enterprises Will Transform the World

ana.bedard

organizational effectiveness

ariana.paz

organizational capability

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