Virtual Roundtables

Many organisations are adopting a skills-based approach, but how well set up is HR to achieve this? For this roundtable we welcomed Asi DeGani, Director Skills and Talent Development, LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) to explore the relevance of HR in the age of skills.

How do you create the right conditions to activate a great career culture? This is a multi-dimensional challenge involving having a business-led career strategy, enabled by the right career resources, that engages employees and leaders at scale. In this roundtable Tom Hilpert, Senior Talent Strategy Specialist at BMW Group explored the creative ways they are activating a new career and development culture across the group, and what it takes to bring theory to life.

Major business transformation involving restructuring can seem at odds with providing opportunity and growth as part of a career proposition. How do organisations and talent leaders manage that tension? Lizzie Da Costa and Madi Clark at Anglo American explored how they've built career engagement whilst navigating business transformation and how they've led a strategic career approach that’s meaningful across the global business.

Organisations want to get their early careers offer right, responding to ambiguity in the future of work and jobs, and demographic changes, post the pandemic. A fresh approach is needed to grow and retain the talent of the future. This roundtable features an Early Careers Panel, peer discussion and employer case studies.

Technology has already helped HR reshape the internal talent marketplace. Then generative AI brought new ways to work and improve the employee experience. In this roundtable Jonathan Winter, our founder, explored AI opportunities and risks for HR, and promising new applications for careers.

The role that Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) play in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion and nurturing career development is increasingly recognised. In this roundtable, Charles River Laboratories shared their strategic approach to Employee Resource Groups with a core intention of growing careers.

It’s challenging for individuals to grow career relationships in global and dispersed organisations. Yet this career support is often key to satisfaction, wellbeing and internal mobility. In this roundtable we explored what the organisation can do to help employees establish a network of supporters, with our provocateurs from Red Hat, who've developed and leveraged career relationships at scale.

Does your career deal really give opportunity to everyone? Is there more that your organisation could do to unlock potential and to improve your employee’s lives through the jobs that you offer? In this roundtable we discussed how the Co-op are understanding social mobility - and the impact socio-economic status has on career opportunities.