As CPO, how do I lead through complexity and manage my anxiety?

How to navigate complex business environments, manage personal stress and lead with confidence amid constant change.

Playing a full role in leading the business while also leading the HR function presents many dilemmas. How can you as CPO navigate a path that delivers business results while maintaining your personal resilience and integrity?

Rupert Brown has experienced turbulent change during his HR career and as CPO, and has researched what it takes to survive and thrive in this challenging role.

Asad Husain has been CHRO 4 times in varied sectors and has achieved HR transformations in fast-moving and complex environments.

In this webinar Rupert and Asad share their hard-won learning from leading HR in challenging environments and explore strategies for building influence and personal strength.

If you would like to delve deeper into the topics we discussed during this webinar please contact us to arrange a no obligation meeting.

This webinar is part of a series of webinars called ‘How to thrive as a CPO in today’s world of work‘. Register your interest to keep up to date with upcoming webinars in this series.

Our next webinar in this series is ‘How to lead HR for maximum strategic impact‘ on Tuesday 28th January 2025 at 13:00 UK – Find out more.

Who is this webinar for?

CPOs, CHROs, Strategic HRBPs, HR leaders, CEOs

What will I learn?

This is the first webinar in our new series ‘How to thrive as a CPO in today’s world of work’. These interactive sessions will equip and inspire CPOs to navigate a world where there is increasing change and complexity. We will hear from accomplished CPOs and invite input and questions from our audience to ensure that each webinar is practical, relevant and rooted in today’s challenging context.

In this webinar Rupert Brown, CPO, will share insights from his extensive experience of leading and transforming HR in global organisations including P&G, Maersk and Virgin. Rupert has recently researched leadership during change for an upcoming book, and will share his findings from interviews with leaders in all functions, CXOs and Chairs.

Asad Husain will draw from his impressive career of being CHRO 4 times and share his learning about the strategic and personal challenges of leading the HR function and how he overcame them.

Areas to explore include:

Achieving clarity and purpose during change
Leading change in a more thoughtful, considered and better way
Building trust with the CEO and Board
Managing expectations – what you can deliver and what you can’t
Avoiding taking the burden of culture on HR’s shoulders; ensuring that culture is a collective responsibility
Bringing business leaders and the HR team along – making change a shared endeavour
Keeping the right focus and priorities in a world that keeps changing.

Facilitators

This webinar is hosted by Asad Husain, 4xCHRO, Rupert Brown, CPO and Deborah Wilkes, co-founder of Enable-HR International.

What are the outcomes?

Greater clarity around personal focus as a CPO or senior HR leader
Relevant and practical ideas about how to move forward with what you want to do as CPO
Building strength and courage from hearing others’ experiences and challenges
Insight into how to deepen trusting relationships with the business leadership team.

What do I get?

Stimulating, interactive webinar with fresh content to challenge and support your thinking
Inspiration to build your own leadership during change
Thought leadership and research from different perspectives
Practical, relevant input that relates to the reality of HR in organisations today.

Date:

Recording from Monday 2nd December 2024

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