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The Future-Ready CHRO

How HR Determines Competitive Speed

June 9-10, 2026 • Chicago, IL

Companies are not falling behind because they missed the AI shift—they’re falling behind because their HR operating systems were never built for speed.

Your hosts, Steve Pemberton and Karen Armand will draw on leadership experience at Workhuman, Accenture, Monster, pureIntegration, Walgreens, and The Advisory Board, to lead a candid dialogue on how HR can become an accelerant—not a bottleneck—to corporate strategy.

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June 9-10, 2026
Executives’ Club of Chicago

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The HR Operating Model AI Will Demand

Companies are not falling behind because they missed the AI shift—they’re falling behind because their HR operating systems were never built for speed.

As decision cycles compress and value creation changes, legacy approaches to performance, rewards, leadership, and skills are becoming a visible execution risk for CEOs and boards.

This closed-door roundtable brings together CHROs to pressure-test where HR is now structurally slowing strategy, which systems are liabilities, and how far—and how fast—HR must realistically move in the next 12–18 months to remain a competitive accelerant rather than a bottleneck.

This forum is reserved for CHROs only, in respect of the room and to preserve the candor and caliber of the conversation.

What We’ll Tackle Together

Through a mix of cutting-edge research, candid peer dialogue, and structured co-solutioning, we’ll surface the most urgent decisions facing people leaders today, including:

HR’s role in setting the pace of corporate strategy
Building workforce fluidity and talent agility in the AI era
Why leadership systems are becoming a competitive liability

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Event Details

The first half of this decade has rewritten every rule for work, and the pace of disruption shows no signs of slowing. AI is reshaping roles and decision-making faster than organizations can adapt. Culture is straining under hybrid ambiguity, burnout, and shifting employee expectations. And boards are placing new expectations on CHROs to lead enterprise-wide transformation, not just the function. At the same time, senior HR executives are looking for guidance and resources that can keep pace with this change-but often find frameworks built for a world that no longer exists.

For CHROs, the choices made now about talent, technology, and culture will shape the success of organizations for the rest of the decade.

In this closed-door, practitioner-led forum—powered by the HR Executive Board’s CHRO-centered approach—CHROs and senior HR leaders will come together to examine the inflection points that will define workforce strategy through 2026 and beyond. Through a mix of cutting-edge research, candid peer dialogue, and structured co-solutioning, we’ll surface the most urgent decisions facing people leaders today and pressure-test how to execute them inside complex, fast-moving organizations.

Unlike traditional conferences, this forum is built to close the “last-mile” gap between knowing and doing. Attendees will leave with peer-tested ideas, actionable insights, and a clear sense of direction for leading your organization into the second half of the decade.

What You Can Expect

The day will tackle the decisions CHROs need to sequence now, including how to:

Manage the emotional and organizational realities of leading HR in a prolonged period of uncertainty
Stabilize culture in the face of the five accelerating disruptors reshaping today’s workplace
Prepare for an AI-enabled workforce while redefining productivity expectations
Build a future-ready HR team equipped for new technologies, ongoing crisis response, and shifting employee expectations

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