Intentional Design: Delivering people experience "as a product"

• Barbra Gago (Founder & CEO, Pando)
• Jessica Zwaan (COO, Talentful)
• Matt Bradburn (CEO, People Collective)

Join Jessica Zwaan, COO of Talentful, and Matt Bradburn, CEO of People Collective, for an insightful workshop on designing people experiences like a product leader. Learn how to treat the development of your organization's culture and employee interactions as a product, applying business-side strategies and metrics to retain and optimize your talent.

Aligned Teams: Organizational vision, goals and outcomes

• Barbra Gago (Founder & CEO, Pando)
• Jac Meyer (CPO, Boll & Branch)
• Colleen Gangl (CPO, RevHealth)

In this session we’ll learn from three chief people officers about how to drive organizational alignment through company vision, values and goals. Gain practical tips and insights into how to how to articulate vision and goals, and tactically ensure alignment across the organization from the most junior to the most senior folks on your team.

Killing Reviews: Re-designing appraisal systems to drive performance

• Misha Bartlett (Head of Sales, Pando)
• Ricky Turner (President, Real Talk HR)
• Austin Sailors (Head of People, Craft.co)
• Mark Putrus (CPO, Nativo)

Let’s rethink the traditional performance review. In this session we will discuss and debate the pros and cons of different performance management and measurement strategies. Join the debate and discover new approaches to appraisals and learn how to drive productivity and engagement through performance programs.

The Dignity Standard: Building inclusive and high performing teams

• Nichelle Appleby (Founder, Work Imagined)

The Dignity Standard is a Work Imagined model focused on respect, value, and ethical treatment of employees, requiring accountability.  In this session, Nichelle Appleby will establish a case for making dignity our collective why for culture work and continuing D.E.I. efforts that support the development of collaborative and high-performing teams.

Leaders First: Strategies for driving organizational behavior change

• Barbra Gago (CEO & Founder, Pando)
• Melanie Naranjo (VP of People, Ethena)
• Anoop Odedra (Principal Consultant, Biztory)
• Bryce Rattner Keithley (CPO, Ready.net)

Join Barbra Gago, Melanie Naranjo, Anoop Odedra and Bryce Rattner Keithley to discuss leadership-driven strategies for organizational change. From small and scrappy to large and established, let's dig into what is required to help organizations transform their behaviors and norms, and how the People team can activate and guide their leaders through impactful change.

Performance Clarity: Using career frameworks to drive performance alignment at Scoir

• Adam Plachta (Head of Customer Success, Pando)
• Kelly O'Brien (Director of People Ops, Scoir)

In this fireside chat, learn how Scoir quickly adopted Pando and competency-based career frameworks to drive clarity, reduce bias and subjectivity and make performance evaluations and conversations more equitable, and more productive.

Feedback Culture: The good, the bad, the ugly of building a feedback culture

• Adam Plachta (Head of Customer Success, Pando)
• Eryn Marshall (VP of People, Oyster)

Building a feedback culture takes time, iteration and lots of work. It requires behavior change, psychological safety and a growth-oriented culture. Learn how Oyster, a fully remote company with employees in 70+ countries, has built a feedback culture. Get insight into the unique challenges, and to successfully foster psychological safety with remote teams, empower managers to have hard conversations and tactics for creating a human-centric organization where people feel they can thrive.

Intentional Inclusion: Keeping pay and performance accessible and fair

• Adam Plachta (Head of Customer Success, Pando)
• Lia Seth (Director of People Ops, Vivante Health)
• Cassie Veres (Sr. Director of L&D, Upwork)
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In this session we’ll explore strategies for creating fair and accessible total reward and performance systems. Discover tactical ways to ensure all employees have equal opportunities for recognition and advancement and learn how to gain manager buy-in and drive towards greater transparency and accountability.

Growth Mindset: Mobility and development without promotions

• Misha Bartlett (Head of Sales, Pando)
• Jasmine Francis (Frm Head of People, Pilancy)
• Bree Sykes (L&D Business Partner, TripAdvisor)
• Aly O'Connor (Senior Program Manager, Duolingo)

Career advancement isn’t always a promotion. Even when times aren’t tight, how can we foster a culture of development without promotions? In this session we’ll explore tactical ways to advance employees continuously without relying solely on promotions.

Leading Change: Brain-friendly change management strategies

• Brendon Nimphius (Facilitation Manager, Lifelabs Learning)

Change is now the norm. We're living in an era where an organization's capacity to change quickly and effectively is pivotal to its survival. The challenge? Our brains resist change and crave certainty. LifeLabs Learning is here to help! In this mini-workshop, People Ops professionals will learn science-backed strategies to help companies and employees adapt, accept, and commit to change.

Sustained Performance: Leveraging career frameworks to drive performance outcomes in Pando

• Misha Bartlett (Head of Sales, Pando)

Join Misha, Pando's head of sales to understand how to drive sustained outperformance by connecting the dots between what employees need to accomplish, and the how through clear and structured behaviors and competency-frameworks. She'll show you how Pando supports continuous, iterative performance calibration between managers and their reports to enable sustained outperformance.

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