Agenda

We're at the start of a revolution for business leaders. The swift change in how we work and the demands of employees from their employers to create a healthy Culture of Well-being have put our skills front and center. How do we build up our well-being to show up for ourselves, our teams, and our employees? Join us for an inspirational and joyful discussion about equipping leaders with balance, purpose, and intention by putting themselves first! This data-driven, case-study-rich, and fully interactive conversation will teach you how to be a healthy and confident leader, so you can be a trusted advisor to colleagues and clients and, most importantly, live healthy lives with loved ones.

This keynote focuses on the pivotal shift HR must make to drive meaningful, measurable impact within organizations: evolving from day-to-day operational tasks to implementing high-level strategic initiatives. The ultimate goal is to move from being transactional to transformational. If HR professionals or the organization's executives do not understand strategy, then HR does not have a valuable seat at the table. They must show the strategy behind the purpose of HR. We'll explore what an effective HR strategy looks like, the critical steps to creating one, and how to identify whether your strategy is driving desired results or falling short. We'll emphasize HR's ROI and discuss how strategy directly influences company performance, engagement, and long-term growth. Attendees will be equipped with actionable insights into developing and measuring HR strategies that align with organizational goals and get HR a valued seat at the executive table.

This dynamic keynote empowers tech teams to achieve breakthrough innovation by embracing playfulness, imperfection, and rapid learning. Melissa shares practical strategies to unlock creative potential, overcome perfectionism, and foster a culture of innovation using her Create the Impossible framework. The audience will leave with a renewed sense of creative confidence and permission to play, practical techniques to overcome the fear of imperfection and generate more innovative ideas, strategies to turn "failures" into valuable learning experiences that accelerate innovation, tools to create psychological safety within teams, encouraging the free flow of ideas, and a fresh perspective on how to break through expertise-induced blindness and see new possibilities.