Webinar series: How to thrive as a CPO in today’s world of work

Explore the challenges of this complex role with seasoned CPOs who will share their real-life experiences and how they achieved results.

As a CPO, you want to add value strategically. In order to achieve this there are many capabilities to master – intellectual, behavioural and emotional. This webinar series will cut through to the reality of achieving success as a top leader in HR.

These interactive sessions will equip and inspire CPOs to navigate a world of 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.

Register your interest to keep you up to date with this series of webinars.

 

Our first webinar As CPO, how do I lead through complexity and manage my anxiety? took place on 2nd December 2024. Watch the recording here

CPOs, CHROs, Strategic HRBPs, Senior HR leaders

We’ve identified an initial list of topics, below, and we will validate and fine-tune these as we go in order to target the areas that our participants want to explore further:

  • As the CPO, how to have the greatest impact strategically
  • As the CPO, how to influence the CEO and Board
  • As the CPO, how to cope with an ever-enlarging scope of work
  • As the CPO, how to build a strong HR team who deliver strategic business results
  • As the CPO, how to demonstrate the business impact of HR’s work.

 

You can see that our focus is on how the CPO operates personally – e.g. how they partner with business leaders, lead during change, prioritise, manage expectations, etc.

This is different from the ‘technical’ work that you want to do, e.g. interventions in OD, leadership development, retention, etc. These can only bear fruit if the CPO is positioned strategically, is aligned with business priorities and has productive and trusting relationships with the Board and especially the CEO.

Building strategic influence and business value are core themes.

In these webinars we will help CPOs to navigate the complexities of leading, prioritising, influencing and performing as their best self.
We invite CPOs and senior HR leaders to join us and their peers on a development journey that’s personal as well as professional.

Deborah Wilkes, CEO of Enable-HR International, and former HR Head, will host the discussions with guests.

Regular guests will include:

Asad Husain, 4xCHRO with organisations including P&G, Del Monte and Dun & Bradstreet

Rupert Brown, CPO whose experience includes Virgin and Maersk

  • Greater clarity around personal focus as a CPO and how you want the function to serve the business
  • New ways of looking at all that you could do in HR in order to understand your priorities
  • Relevant and practical ideas about how to move forward with what you want to do as CPO and build your stature
  • Building strength and courage from hearing others’ experiences and challenges
  • Insight into how to deepen trusting relationships with the business leadership team
  • Ideas, tools and concepts to build into your own practice as a CPO
  • Reassurance and confidence-building through hearing from others who’ve faced similar challenges.
  • Stimulating, interactive webinars with fresh content to challenge and support your thinking
  • Insights from accomplished HR leaders who’ve been where you are
  • Inspiration to build your own leadership style, focus and outcomes
  • Thought leadership and research from different perspectives
  • Practical, relevant input that relates to the reality of HR in organisations today
Date:
Monthly webinars will be scheduled

Register your interest here


Other upcoming webinars and workshops

Recording: How to lead HR for maximum strategic impact

Date: Recording from Tuesday 28th January 2025
The second webinar in our series ‘How to thrive as a CPO in today’s world of work’. We explore the challenges of how to lead a business-led and united HR team and clarify HR’s operating model and priorities with Asad Husain, 4 x CHRO, who shared his real-life experiences and how he achieved results.

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

Date: Recording from Monday 2nd December 2024
The constant change in today’s business context and in the world of work presents a myriad of dilemmas for the CPO. In this interactive webinar you will hear from two highly experienced CPOs who share what they’ve learned about how to succeed, and how to look after their own self, in turbulent environments.

Recording: How to make your organisation a force for good

Date: Recording from Friday 8th November 2024
What is your business for? Should its purpose be the context for your HR strategy? These are big questions that go to the heart of an organisation’s right to operate. With Sarah Gillard, CEO of Blueprint For Better Business, Rupert Brown, a former CPO and Deborah Wilkes explore how to help organisations to rediscover their respect for their people, work for the common good, and turn this into a measurable formula for business success.

Recording: Priorities for a new CHRO

Date: Recording from Thursday 3rd October 2024
If you’re a new CHRO, or more established but want to reassess your function in today’s new context, this webinar is for you.  Two highly experienced CHROs share their strategic insights on HR transformation in a conversation with Q&A. They explore some of the dilemmas they’ve faced, and how they navigated their new roles and built relationships with business leaders and also their own HR teams.

Organisations we’ve worked with