UCLA HARRT

Senior Round Table: “CHRO Implementation of Strategies in the New HR Era”
2015-02-04 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers:

Leo Brajkovich Ph.D.
Smarter Workforce Executive
IBM

John Howes, Ph.D.
Smarter Workforce Executive
IBM

Summary:
Applying science and analytics to the art of talent management, building social and digital capabilities into the fabric of the organization, and finding new sources of value to deliver new capabilities are some of the key action items on the three to five year plan for many HR leaders globally. In this session thought leaders from IBM Smarter Workforce will review findings from a study of 350 global CHROs. In addition, they will discuss implications of the findings for North American CHROs and facilitate a panel discussion of HR executives from organizations who are currently leading and innovating in each of these areas.
Dr. Brajkovich is IBM’s Smarter Workforce Executive for the Western U.S. and Canada. The Smarter Workforce business includes IBM’s Talent Management software, behavioral sciences, workforce consulting and analytics solutions that improve HCM effectiveness and drive business performance. With 20 years of experience, Leo is responsible for advising CHROs and delivering Smarter Workforce Workshops as well as supporting our clients delivering improved business outcomes across the broader Smarter Workforce solutions portfolio. Leo also serves as an executive sponsor to certain strategic partnerships.
John C. Howes, Ph.D., currently holds an Executive Managing Consultant role within IBM (formerly Kenexa). Leveraging his talent and experience, he focuses on improving individual, team and organizational effectiveness in a wide variety of companies. Some examples are Alaska Airlines Group, Amazon, Avanade, Blount International, Boeing, CHC Helicopter, Disney, Driscoll’s, Esterline, HSBC, Ingram Micro, Jet Propulsion Lab, Legacy Health System, McKinstry, Moss Adams, Principal Financial Group, Ross Stores, and Servco.

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Associate Round Table: "Data Analytics: The Future of HR”
2015-02-03 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers:

Leo Brajkovich Ph.D.
Smarter Workforce Executive
IBM

John Howes, Ph.D.
Smarter Workforce Executive
IBM

Summary:
HR leaders must change how they recruit, engage, develop and retain people in order to improve business performance and remain competitive. What if you could help your leadership make better business decisions through the data you provide? Or easily predict the best employees for high-value roles, as well as identify who will stay (or leave) your organization? Or analyze social “chatter” to be in tune with employees in real time? In this session thought leaders from IBM Smarter Workforce will describe how organizations all over the world, including IBM, are using predictive and prescriptive analytics to make all of this possible even for executives without deep analytic backgrounds.
Dr. Brajkovich is IBM’s Smarter Workforce Executive for the Western U.S. and Canada. The Smarter Workforce business includes IBM’s Talent Management software, behavioral sciences, workforce consulting and analytics solutions that improve HCM effectiveness and drive business performance. With 20 years of experience, Leo is responsible for advising CHROs and delivering Smarter Workforce Workshops as well as supporting our clients delivering improved business outcomes across the broader Smarter Workforce solutions portfolio. Leo also serves as an executive sponsor to certain strategic partnerships.
John C. Howes, Ph.D., currently holds an Executive Managing Consultant role within IBM (formerly Kenexa). Leveraging his talent and experience, he focuses on improving individual, team and organizational effectiveness in a wide variety of companies. Some examples are Alaska Airlines Group, Amazon, Avanade, Blount International, Boeing, CHC Helicopter, Disney, Driscoll’s, Esterline, HSBC, Ingram Micro, Jet Propulsion Lab, Legacy Health System, McKinstry, Moss Adams, Principal Financial Group, Ross Stores, and Servco

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Associate Round Table: “DNA of Engagement: How Organizations Create & Sustain Highly Engaging Cultures”
2014-11-13 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Boeing Satellite Systems, 2060 E Imperial Hwy, El Segundo, CA, 90245, United States
Featured Speakers:

Rebecca Ray, Ph.D.
Executive Vice Presiedent, Knowledge Organization and Human Capital Practice Lead
The Conference Board

David Dye, Ph.D.
Director, Human Capital
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Session Description:
The topic of discussion will be DNA of Engagement: How Organizations Create & Sustain Highly Engaging Cultures. To answer this question, Research Fellows of The Engagement Institute along with researchers from Deloitte, Sirota and The Conference Board, studied 12 organizations of varying size, structure, products/service and mission. Through interviews with executives, surveys, site visits and analysis, the findings revealed eight common elements at the core of each organization:
-Alignment of Business Strategy and Engagement Strategy
-An Organizational Philosophy that Emphasizes a Core Purpose
-Formal Programs and Policies that Drive the Engagement Agenda
-Open, Proactive, Leader-Driven Communication about Engagement
-A Workplace (Physical and Virtual) and Organizational Structure that Promotes Collaboration and Inclusion
-A Regular Cadence for Assessment and Follow-Up
-Leaders who are Expected and Empowered to Build Engagement
-Demonstration of the Business Impact of Engagement
In this special briefing, we will headline the findings and share examples to showcase the philosophies, actions, and outcomes of these profiled organizations in an effort to bring to life the elements of highly engaged cultures. Central to this report are the elements of engagement and the descriptors which are the markers —the 23 pairs in the DNA helix, if you will—of those organizations that are highly engaged. We will share a tool for assessing where your organization is on its own journey to becoming a “highly engaged” culture.

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2014 Annual Sr. Executive Retreat
2014-11-06 13:00 - 2014-11-08 12:00 | 68900, Frank Sinatra Dr, Ranco Mirage, CA, United States
This year our event promises to be informative with exciting speakers and outstanding topics that have been developed in response to your input.

We will be joined by the following speakers:

Karen O’Leonard, Vice President, Analytics & Benchmarking Research, Bersin by Deloitte
Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, The Institute for the Future and author of The Nature of the Future
Ed Leamer, Distinguished Professor, Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management, Director, UCLA Anderson Forecast, UCLA
Charlene Li, Founder, Altimeter Group and author of Groundswelland the New York Times bestseller,Open Leadership
Jim Stengel, Former Global Marketing Officer, Proctor & Gamble, Professor of Marketing, UCLA Anderson School of Management and author of Grow

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Associate Round Table: "Coaching for Performance"
2014-10-06 08:00 - 12:00 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker

John Ullmen
Lecturer of Management and Organizations
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Summary:
Professor Ullmen will focus his session on how to improve personal coaching and communication skills to be an effective leader.
The purpose of coaching is help others learn, grow and be more effective in professional life. It’s a challenging skillset because it requires adapting to the development priorities, learning styles, motivational profiles, strengths and improvement areas of others, who might differ substantially in all those ways and more from the coach. Done well, coaching requires high-level listening, self-awareness, question-asking skills, patience, empathy and a willingness to set one’s ego, agenda and biases aside while in the “development zone” with another person. Effective coaching is also immensely rewarding to the coach. The pride and meaningfulness that come from helping others overcome obstacles, barriers, self-imposed limits, derailing tendencies etc., is among the most satisfying experiences a leader can have. It’s timeless and priceless. Ask the leaders you most admire in the later stages of their careers what they are most proud of, and you’ll likely hear about the people they had the privilege to help grow toward their potential.

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Senior Round Table: "The Impact of Process and Perception on Team Effectiveness"
2014-10-01 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers

Corinne Bendersky
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Maia Young
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Karren Fink
CHRO
Edmunds.com

Summary:
Professor Bendersky will present a framework for team effectiveness that emphasizes processes and “emergent states,” which are things like shared mental models, learning orientation and collective emotion (or affect) that have been receiving a lot of research attention lately.
Professor Young will lead the group through a short emotion perception task and discuss emotion perception as a key skill for leaders. Simply put, groups can achieve more when a leader is able to detect both positive and negative emotions among team members.
Karren Fink will present a case study on innovative team practice taking place at Edmunds.com.

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Associate Round Table: "Bringing Marketing Strategies to HR: Tools for Building Employee Engagement"
2014-05-28 13:00 - 16:00 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker

Suzanne Shu
Assistant Professor of Marketing
UCLA Anderson School

Summary:
Offering a strong value proposition is a key component of both consumer and employee communications. In this session, we will apply ideas from consumer marketing – such as segmentation, targeting, positioning, and branding – to the question of how to better communicate with new and existing employees. By better tailoring communications to the needs of particular segments, we can build stronger employee engagement and company buy-in. We will also discuss specific communication strategies and consider how individual judgments, especially during new employee onboarding, can be affected by message content, choice options, aesthetics, and other details.

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Senior Round Table: "Acting Decisively" and "The Psychology of Savings"
2014-05-14 13:00 - 17:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers:

Craig Fox
Ho-Su Wu Term Chair in Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Shlomo Benartzi
Professor and Co-Chair of the Behavioral Decision Making Group
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Summary:
“Acting Decisively”
Making choices is a core function of leadership. In our first session led by Dr. Craig Fox, we’ll take a critical look at how we tend to evaluate decisions. In addition we’ll examine factors that can make decision making difficult or make people want to postpone decisions. Next, we will review distinct varieties of indecisiveness and the behaviors that we observe in order to determine whether or not a colleague or leader is decisive. Finally, we’ll discuss some strategies that you can use for making faster decisions.
“The Psychology of Savings”
Our second session features Dr. Benartzi, one of the world’s top experts in behavioral finance. He will discuss how half of the American workforce lacks access to a retirement savings plan. Approximately one-third of those who do have access fail to join. Those who do join tend to save too little and often make unwise investment decisions. In short, the defined contribution world is in crisis and employees need help.
We’ll analyze the behavioral challenges that led to this crisis, including inertia, loss aversion, and myopia, and recommend science-based behavioral best practices to overcome these obstacles. Based on the book “Save More Tomorrow: Practical Behavioral Finance Solutions to Improve 401(k) Plans”, this session will provide you with ideas and insights to get more employees to join their workplace retirement plan, and help them save more and save smarter.

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Senior Round Table: "Big Data: HR Analytics"
2014-03-05 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers

Phillip Leslie
Associate Professor
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Ian Larkin
Visiting Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School & UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management

Rob Witoff
Data Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Summary:
How data analytics is being applied to human resources. We first review the data analytics landscape—what are the different kinds of analytics being utilized, what kinds of expertise is needed, and how are organizations changing to become more data-driven in the decision making process? Then we focus on HR data analytics in particular—the use of data analytics in recruiting, performance evaluation, compensation analysis, and measuring as well enhancing employee engagement (e.g., shared dashboards with all employees). Specific examples of HR data analytics being developed at NASA’s JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) will be presented to highlight the use of structured and novel data sources, data visualization, and to demonstrate the kinds of insights that data analytics can provide for HR leaders. With help from the audience, we will also discuss the organizational challenges to HR data analytics, and perhaps the most difficult challenge of all: how to translate insights to actions in an HR context.
Phillip Leslie, Associate Professor of Strategy at the Anderson School, conducted a session on translating strategy into action to enhance value and organizational performance as well as discuss the implications for capabilities that are needed for managers and leaders to be effective. Among the concepts and capabilities to be discussed are: strategic thinking, strategy translating and sense making, middle managers as empowered visionaries, and transforming organizational capabilities to exploit big data. Our interactive discussions will include a Strategic Leadership exercise and a Data Driven Management Round Table Discussion.
Ian Larkin is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Strategy group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He researches the optimal use of formal rewards systems by companies, given the complex and often unanticipated effects these systems have on employee motivation and decision making. His research quantifying the cost incurred by a major enterprise software vendor due to salespeople deliberately gaming their sales commission system, published in The Journal of Labor Economics, is one of the most prominently cited empirical studies of incentive system gaming. It was the basis for a case study widely used in MBA classes on compensation and human resource management.
Rob is the IT Data Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and his team is enabling NASA to explore data in novel ways. Before JPL, he founded the venture backed startup, Apigy. He has since lead development for interplanetary data visualization software and developed a laser communication system on the International Space Station with the OPALS project. Rob is NASA’s first IT Data Scientist and his data science team incubates solutions to Big Data problems for spacebound explorers, earthborn assets and the people that make them possible.

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2013 Annual Sr. Executive Retreat
2013-11-14 13:00 - 2013-11-16 12:30 | 4 Seasons Resort, 1260 Channel Dr, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
HR Agility: Are You Ready for What’s Next?
Presentations:

Shifting the Talent Trajectory: What’s Next?
John Bremen

Expressing Employee Value Proposition Through the Employee Experience
Scott Sherman
EVP, HR
Allergan
Amy Stern
VP, HR
Timberland
Leading in a Changing World – Do Nothing
Keith Murnighan
Harold H. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management
Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
Changing the Rules of Employee Engagement:
Dina Barmasse-Gray
SVP, HR
The Cheesecake Factory
Martin Cozyn
EVP, HR
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Joe Day
Reservoir Engineer
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Kathy Mandato
SVP, HR
NBC Entertainment West Coast
Kelly Bean
Assistant Dean
UCLA Anderson Executive Education
Leadership Agility: Mastering the Unexpected:
Robert Kulhan
President and CEO, Business Improvisations; Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
Duke University Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University Business School Guest Lecture UCLA Executive Education
Creating Momentum: Rethinking HR
David Heath
VP, Global HR, Safety & Security, and Real Estate & Facilities
Panasonic Avionics
InaMarie Johnson
SVP, CHRO
UTi Worldwide
Scoring Through Gamification at Deloitte
Hilary Horn
Director, Human Capital – Organization Transformation
Deloitte
Patricia Romeo
Talent Innovation Practice
Deloitte

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Senior Round Table: "Motivation and Unethical Behavior"
2013-09-25 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker:

Scott Wiltermuth
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and Psychology
University of Southern California

Summary:
Scott Wiltermuth, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and Psychology at the USC Marshall School of Business, will demonstrates how tactics that are designed to boost motivation and effort in the workplace may also boost the incidence of unethical behavior. In particular, he will show that even relatively subtle tactics that do not involve larger rewards for unethical behavior can increase the risk of unethical behavior. The presentation therefore highlights non-obvious tips for human resources professionals looking to monitor and, ultimately, to curb unethical behavior within their firms.

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Senior Round Table: "Critical Issues for Business and HR in 2013"
2013-05-08 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker:

Rebecca L. Ray
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
The Conference Board
Featured Panelists:

Julia Gouw
President, Chief Operating Officer
East West Bank

Avi Steinlauf
Chief Executive Officer
Edmunds.com

Philip de Toledo
President
Capital Group

Summary:
The HARRT Round Table discussion will focus on “Critical Issues for Business and HR in 2013”. Rebecca L. Ray, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Human Resources, The Conference Board will present the results of the Conference Board’s 2013 CEO Challenge Report, Countering the Global Slowdown: Optimizing Talent and Operational Performance. This annual survey polls 700 CEO’s worldwide to see what the critical issues facing executives are and how they foresee addressing these concerns. Rebecca will speak to these challenges from a Human Capital perspective addressing any Round Table questions that are posed. A distinguished panel of CEO’s and Presidents from HARRT member organizations will share their perspectives of the challenges facing their organizations and industries: Avi Steinlauf, CEO,Edmunds.com, Julia Guow, President, COO, East West Bank and Philip de Toledo, President, Capital Group. In particular, they will comment on how they see HR adding value to their organizations and business objectives. The objective of this meeting is to share the diversity of ways across organizations and industries that HR can and has added value in the context of our confidentiality policy. With this in mind, we seek to enrich the roles and value that our HR members contribute to the talent leadership and human capital strategies in their respective organizations. As preparation for this Round Table, we are asking our membership and company guests to talk with their CEO’s or Presidents in advance about the challenges facing their organization and industry and how HR can add value. We plan to discuss human capital strategies and approaches to challenges within the small groups and summarize the key contributions at the conclusion of the meeting. Members will receive a copy of the CEO Challenge Report and the slide presentation at the conclusion of the event.

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Senior Round Table: "Strategic Thinking as a Leadership Differentiator for Managers"
2013-02-13 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker:

Phillip Leslie
Associate Professor
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Summary:
Phillip Leslie, Associate Professor of Strategy at the Anderson School, will conduct a session on translating strategy into action to enhance value and organizational performance as well as discuss the implications for capabilities that are needed for managers and leaders to be effective. Among the concepts and capabilities to be discussed are: strategic thinking, strategy translating and sense making, middle managers as empowered visionaries, and transforming organizational capabilities to exploit big data. Our interactive discussions will include a Strategic Leadership exercise and a Data Driven Management Round Table Discussion.

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2012 Annual Sr. Executive Retreat
2012-11-15 14:00 - 2012-11-17 11:30 | The Lodge Resort, 11480 N Torrey Pines RD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Leveraging Social Media to Foster Engagement and Impact in the Age of Connectivity
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Karie Willyerd,
The 2020 Workplace
Panel of Practitioners:
Donna Morris
SVP HR
Adobe Systems Inc.
David Parsons
Corporate VP Global Alliances & CMO
CSC
Patricia Romeo
Talent Innovation, D Street Leader
Deloitte
Strategic Social Media Discussion:
David Parsons
Donna Morris
Adam Wootton
Sr. Consultant
Towers Watson
Moderated by:
Amy Hirsh-Robinson
Principal
Interchange Group
Political and Econmonic Outlook:
Mark Peterson
Prof. of Public Policy and Political Science
UCLA

Summary:
There has been an explosion in social media and social networking tools over the last five years and organizations are increasingly thinking about how to apply these tools to the HR function. The first and most obvious use of social media and social networking tools is for attracting talent and building employer brands, but HR leaders are also creatively applying these tools to enhance internal connections between employees, create internal communities of practice, build and support diversity initiatives, broadly communicate HR initiatives and messages from senior executives, and connect emerging talent with senior mentors and coaches.
Our Retreat theme seeks to explore how talent and social media can be leveraged to drive innovation and performance in organizations as a potentially powerful tool to drive important business outcomes and transform the role of HR leaders. Since this retreat takes place right after the national and state elections, we will combine knowledge and insights from technological and social trends with the political and economic landscape.
Our program schedule will allow for ample interaction and networking of thought and market leaders with our members as we explore the following topics:

How to use internal social networks to help widely dispersed employees connect, innovate, and share ideas and knowledge.
Effectively use social media to connect groups with shared projects, challenges, or customers.
Help senior leaders connect and communicate with employees, customers, alliance partners and other constituents.
How companies are setting policies around the use of social media by employees on company time.
Incorporating social media into business strategy.
Thoughts on future uses of social media and social networking tools.

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Senior Round Table: "Rethinking the Performance Appraisal Process"
2012-09-18 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker:
Wayne Cascio
Robert H. Reynolds Distinguished Chair in Global Leadership
Univ. of Colorado.

Summary:
Performance Management is a topic of importance as more emphasis is being placed on growth and competitiveness. A poll of 700 business leaders in 2009 revealed that 92 percent recognize that superior talent provides a competitive advantage. Yet, “60 percent of workers say reviews don’t do anything to help their future performance.” On September 18, HARRT and its distinguished speakers and discussants will examine both sides of the dialogue as to whether and under what circumstances, performance appraisals can be an integral part of high performance culture and under what circumstances this method falls short.
Wayne F. Cascio, who holds the Robert H. Reynolds Chair in Global Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver, is a recognized and influential scholar and writer in the field of Human Resource Management. Professor Cascio will take a practical approach to what steps can be taken to make the performance-management process more relevant and acceptable to the individuals who will be affected by it. As our distinguished speaker, he will cover how to best fit performance management to the strategic direction of the business, who should be involved in the evaluation process, how they should be trained and what an effective performance management process looks like in connection with the results of a pre-survey of HARRT members covering both the technical and interpersonal aspects of the performance management process.
A panel of our members—Cozette Hart and Joyce Rowland—will present the highlights of the survey results on performance management and evaluation, sharing their experiences, issues and approaches to performance management given the cultures of their organizations and the composition of their workforces to stimulate small group discussion among our members, faculty and guests.

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Senior Round Table: "The Role of HR Leaders in Organizational Change"
2012-05-23 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers:
Patrick Wright Ph.D.
Richard Antoine
David Lewin

Summary:
The May 23 Round Table brings academic and practitioner thought leaders together to discuss the issues surrounding the role of HR leaders in organizational change. Featuring Dr. Patrick Wright from Cornell will report the results of interviews with a number of CHRO officers regarding the different types of strategic change, as well as the levers, obstacles, and strategies for implementing strategic change. Dick Antoine, President of the National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR) will draw his experience with companies represented by the NAHR Fellows and his experience as Chief Global HR Officer for Procter & Gamble.
A panel of two of our distinguished members, Alan Kaye, EVP and CHRO at Mattel, Inc. and Patricia Summers, SVP of HR at Jacobs Engineering Group will share their experiences and respond to what is presented by our academic thought leaders.

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Senior Round Table: "Developing Brand Ideals to Inspire and Motivate Employees"
2012-02-15 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker:
Sanjay Sood
Associate Professor of Marketing
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Summary:
Professor of Marketing Sanjay Sood will conduct an interactive session on how business depends on meeting market demands, understanding the customer and meeting their needs for business success. Professor Sood will specifically focus on brand ideals to inspire and motivate employees. A brand ideal is the “higher purpose” or main reason why a brand exists. Many companies focus their brand on consumers via advertising campaigns. The strongest brands, however, create an ideal that works from the inside-out–the ideals motivate employees and consumers with a compelling vision. These companies align the corporate culture, incentives, and processes to fit the brand ideal. According to a recent study, companies with strong brand idealssignificantly outperformed the S&P500 over a ten year period.how managing external customersimpacts the organization’s operating and human resource management practices.

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2011 Annual Sr. Executive Retreat
2011-11-11 13:00 - 2011-11-13 12:00 | 4 Seasons Resort, 1260 Channel Dr, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
How Neuroscience and Globalization are Transforming HR
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Robert Bilder
Tennenbaum Family Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehaviroal Sciences and Psychology, Director, Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity
Semel Institute, UCLA
Tamara Erickson
Managing Director, McKinsey Award-winning author
Moxie Insight, Inc.
Featured Panelists:
David Goodrich
Vice President of Talent Management
Parsons Corporation
David Lewin
Niel H. Jacoby Professor of Management
HARRT Co-Chair
Michael Roberts
Special Counsel for Roll Global, Adjunct Professor
UCLA School of Law
Martin Cozyn
Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Mark Masten
Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing
Paramount Farms International
Bhagwan Chowdhry
Professor of Finance and Faculty Director, Master of Financial Engineering
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management
Chris Erickson
Professor and Sr. Associate Dean
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management
Archie Kleingartner
Professor Emeritus
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, Founding Dean, School of Public Affairs, HARRT Founder and Chair Emeritus
Stan Duncan
Senior EVP and Global Head of Management & Org Development
Westfield Corporation
Steve Milovich
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Disney/ABC Television Group
Joyce Rowland
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Sempra

Senior Round Table: "Persuasion at Work: How to Win Support for Your Ideas, Proposals and Initiatives"
2011-05-25 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker
Noah Goldstein

HR & Organizational Behavior
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management

Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. As leaders, it is essential be persuasive. This session will provide insights into strategies and tactics for improving responsiveness to your arguments, requests and agendas. We will learn the scientific principles behind the art of persuasiveness drawing largely from the psychological fundamentals of persuasive communication. While learning practical persuasion tactics and how to apply them in a variety of situations, HARRT members will also learn about common persuasion mistakes and how to avoid them.
In advance of this meeting we ask you to reflect on initiatives that you have proposed or situations in which you have tried to persuade others to support a proposal. So that we have a sense of the issues most relevant to you, we ask that you send a brief description in advance, if you can. This information will be treated as confidential and used for designing the session content and group exercise. We will have a group discussion exercise in which you will have an opportunity to apply some of the principles presented. Please come prepared to discuss one or two situations in which you can apply the new knowledge you have:
1) One can be something you want to propose for the future and how you can change your strategy and content to be more persuasive.
2) an alternative is to reflect on something you have proposed in the past and how it could have been changed to be more persuasive.

Senior Round Table: "Creating a High Engagement Organization: A Practical Approach for Employees, Managers and Executives"
2011-03-02 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Facilitators
Linda Newton
Executive Director
HARRT
Lucy Wander-Perna
HARRT Executive Committee
Featured Speaker
Christopher Rice
President and CEO
BlessingWhite

Employee engagement is on more boardroom agendas than ever before, but only a few organizations have completed the process with success stories worth sharing or leveraging. This session takes a fresh look at this important business issue for all companies looking to engage, retain and empower their workforces. It introduces the key findings from the recently published 2011 Employee Engagement Report and builds on the information presented during our Annual Retreat last fall. Through an interactive discussion, members will learn how to influence and harness discretionary contributions from employees by focusing on five key areas and understanding how each level of the organization can promote engagement.
BlessingWhite CEO Christopher Rice and Facilitator Sheridan Celmer will lead an interactive forum to provide: The business case for engagement, a pragmatic model for talking about engagement, the latest global findings on engagement levels and drivers, recommendations for avoiding five common pitfalls to successful engagement initiatives, tangible actions for making engagement a shared responsibility across the workforce and an ongoing priority, in addition to our focus on increasing engagement levels across your organization, the session will provide insights into maintaining your personal engagemement as a leader. For research conducted by BlessingWhite on engagement and other topics, please follow this link: http://blessingwhite.com/Research.asp.

Senior Round Table: “Human Capital Strategy: Integrating Business and Human Capital Priorities"
2011-02-15 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers
Ian V. Ziskin
President
EXec EXcel Group, LLC

The recent economic recession has had a profound impact on the world and the way we govern, do business and manage our resources. Rising government deficits add additional stress to the economic environment. Now, more than ever, business and public sectors need to find ways to improve performance through sound strategies, processes and management practices. The challenge for HR leaders is to understand the 3 to 5 most critical business challenges and the actions that need to be taken to address them. A clear and actionable human capital strategy is essential. Oftentimes, critical business challenges are not clearly defined. HR leaders need to have confidence they are asking the correct strategic questions regarding human capital and be able to measure the results.
Ian Ziskin, President, EXec EXcel Group and former Chief HR and Administrative Officer at Northrop Grumman will lead HARRT members in an interactive discussion to examine their assumptions about their own businesses and the new challenges and trends imposed by the environment. Using a framework to guide the process, HARRT members will have an opportunity to develop and refine a crisp and appropriate human capital strategy for their businesses that focuses on the following five dimensions:

· Manage Talent
· Develop Leaders
· Drive Performance
· Build HR Excellence
· Harmonize Systems & Processes

2010 Annual Sr. Executive Retreat
2010-11-11 13:00 - 2010-11-13 12:00 | 4 Seasons Resort, 1260 Channel Dr, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
“Toward a New HR? Perspectives on a Changing Role”

Featured Speakers:
Bob Johansen
Distinguished Fellow
Institute for the Future
Michael Haffenden
Co-Founder and Director
Corporate Research Forum
Graham Prentice
Associate
Corporate Research Forum
Ed Leamer
Chauncy J, Professor of Management
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management
David Lewin, Ph.D
Neil H Jacoby Chair in Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Douglas Klein
President
Sirota Survey Intelligence
Featured Panelists:
Stan Duncan
Senior Executive VP, Human Resources and Global Head of Talent Management & Org Development
Westfield Corporation
George Rose
Executive VP, Worldwide People and Org
Sony Pictures Entertainment
John Kelly
Senior VP, Human Resources
Capital Group

Summary:
Challenged by a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, this session will focus on new opportunities where volatility can be turned into vision, uncertainty into understanding, complexity into clarity and ambiguity into agility.

Senior Round Table: “Challenges for Health Care and Higher Education in the New Normal”
2010-09-29 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker
Gene D. Block
Chancellor
UCLA

Changes in the economy and public policy continue to highlight challenges for the “New Normal. The recession has had a far reaching impact on local and global markets and on public institutions. Reduced tax dollars have exacerbated the budget deficit in California and the public university system, responsible for educating the workforce of the future. These changes along with demographic shifts are reshaping the higher education landscape. UCLA and other public universities in California have had to face these challenges and make adjustments while preserving their mandate to educate, conduct research and serve the greater community. Likewise the Health Care Reform Legislation passed by Congress in March of this year poses challenges for employers who have to interpret and implement these changes as health care costs continue to escalate.
Chancellor Gene D. Block will address the challenges faced by public universities and how UCLA plans to serve its mission of education, research and community service to enhance quality of life for Californians while adapting to a new funding model.
A panel of members and health care experts will share programs they have implemented at their organizations to improve outcomes for quality health care for their employees and reduce costs. Diane Shapiro at Boeing will share the basic principles of “The Medical Home” program to address issues for chronically ill employees, “Best Doctors” and “Boeing on the Move.” Ken Kahrs from NBC Universal will discuss contrasting approaches to health benefits and the impact on employee satisfaction, Tanya Benenson, NBCU Medical Director will share the impact of their health clinics and wellness programs to give patients the kind of care they are not getting elsewhere. Leslie A Margolin, President and CEO of Partners Transforming Health will share strategies for how health care costs can be reduced and address insurer, provider, customer and consumer issues.

Senior Round Table: "Strategy: New or Normal?"
2010-05-12 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers
John de Figueiredo, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Associate Professor of Law
UCLA Anderson School of Management

John de Figueiredo’s primary fields of research are competitive strategy, political and legal strategy, law and economics, and the management of innovation. His research in “non-market” strategy examines how firms use political influence, regulatory lobbying, and strategic litigation to enhance competitive performance. His current work in the field has examined corporate legislative and regulatory lobbying behavior in telecommunications, health care, and other high technology industries. De Figueiredo’s research on competitive strategy and innovation focus on long-term competitive advantage, technology strategy, and organizational change. His papers have appeared in leading economics, management, and law journals.
Prior to joining the UCLA Anderson School, Professor de Figueiredo was on the faculties of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He was also the Olin Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard Law School and is currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. De Figueiredo has taught MBA students, Ph.D. students, and executives in a variety of different programs. His main teaching responsibility has been the core MBA Strategic Management course, and he has developed and taught an MBA elective course on corporate non-market strategy, introducing techniques to company executives on managing the media, activists, government, and international bodies to achieve the objectives of the corporation. He also teaches competitive strategy, non-market strategy, technology strategy, corporate governance, and organizational change at the senior executive and board of directors level. He won the Excellence in Teaching Award for MBA teaching while at MIT, and has won four teaching awards in his four years on the UCLA faculty.
Prior to joining academia, Professor de Figueiredo was a strategic management consultant at Monitor Company for a number of years, where he served on a team of consultants that started the company’s Spanish practice and Madrid office.

Senior Round Table: "Creative Problem Solving in Challenging Times"
2010-02-11 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers
Iris Firstenberg, Ph.D
Associate Adjunct Professor
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Introduction and comments by Professor David Lewin

A great leader helps keep a team engaged and energized when the pressure is high. In times of great uncertainty and rapid change, the challenge to maintain a sense of focus, drive, and enthusiasm requires unique efforts. We will discuss how to inspire and motivate people so that even in difficult times, people can accomplish extraordinary results. We will also discuss strategies for tapping the human potential for creative thinking in the workplace as a way of dealing with uncertainty and leading change in difficult times.
Iris Firstenberg, Associate Adjunct Professor at the Anderson Graduate School of Management, will discuss how a culture of innovation rapidly recognizes change and adapts with new learning and action. Successful organizations operate on the edge of chaos and embrace risk, error, and ambiguity as a way of life while practicing strategies that reduce the need for doing, undoing, and redoing. This session provides provocative ideas and tools to give participants the adaptive capacity to work creatively with change and uncertainty and adapt more quickly to emerging opportunities.
Iris will lead an interactive session on setting the stage for creative thinking which focuses on the constraints that inhibit our ability to think with flexibility and delivers powerful thinking strategies that expand possibilities and prepares leaders to meet new challenges and create better opportunities as the future unfolds. Through group discussion and conversation we will generate actionable ideas for participants to take back to their organizations.
