From check-ins to growth: Empowering people leaders to elevate careers

Organisations are calling for more human-centred leadership – where emotional intelligence isn’t just a nice-to-have but an essential part of manager capability. But how do you scale this in practice, especially to improve the quality of career conversations?

For this roundtable, we’re delighted to welcome Adrianna Davis from Charles River Laboratories to share how they’re building leadership behaviours that foster human connection at an enterprise level – and why this matters for wellbeing, belonging and talent development outcomes.

We’ll discuss with Adrianna:

• How to design work to increase the quality of people leader career conversations
• The role of ‘Power Hours’, Leadership Development Programmes and internal Talent Partners in building capability – and how aligning these creates a multiplier effect
• How they’re helping people leaders to prioritise career conversations, by understanding connections to wellbeing and performance
• How improving motivation, skills and clarity has contributed to a 20% increase in development plans
• Lessons learned on what it takes to embed emotionally intelligent leadership at scale

This roundtable is ideal for HR and Talent leaders exploring how to deepen manager capability, connect career and wellbeing strategies, and strengthen the culture of connection across the organisation.