In 2025, HR Strategy Forum will convene four events centered around the theme of HR Leadership in a Multi-factor Turbulent World. 

Through five organizational lenses that are critical for strategic HR leaders, we’ll examine external and internal forces of turbulence we think will buffet organizations in the coming year. Our approach will be curricular: we’ll build on themes and help HR leaders think strategically and holistically about their roles in times of multiple colliding changes.

The forces we’ll examine, and the thrust of our topics, will be: 

1. Socio- and geopolitical: How do you manage a divided or polarized workforce in a divided or polarized population?

2. Technological: How can you prepare people for the use and misuse of technological innovation, analytics, and metrics in decision making and initiating change? 

3. Forces within the Workforce: What’s needed to build resilience and agility in the face of change fatigue, generational shifts and the ongoing evolution of employee expectations about work?

Economic: How do you build healthy places to work in a turbulent economy?

The five organizational lenses through which we’ll examine these forces will be:

1. Leadership and Management

2. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

3. Change Management

4. Company Culture and Employee Wellbeing

5. Strategic Workforce Planning

Through creative workshop formats, guest speakers, and peer conversations, we’ll add to HR leaders’ awareness and acumen so they can step away from the tactical, day-to-day fray and not only to lead HR teams but also to lead their executive peers through the turbulence of the times.