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March 18th '26 / 2:30 PM to 3:20 PM PDT

How to Drive Performance and Productivity Without Losing Your Best People

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Organizations are pushing aggressively to reclaim pre-pandemic levels of productivity—supercharged by AI investments, cost pressure, and a labor market where employers once again have the upper hand.

Yet HR leaders see a different reality: employees are nearing capacity, burnout risk is rising, and traditional top-down productivity mandates often backfire. Leaders want more output; employees want clarity, support, and the “why” behind shifting expectations. HR ends up caught squarely in the middle. Seramount research shows that this tension is widening, with employees reporting increasing strain as organizations accelerate new expectations and ways of working.

Speaker
Cory Schneider
Director, Advisory
Seramount
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Many leaders underestimate the friction points slowing performance—and overestimate how well employees understand the rationale behind productivity and AI-driven changes. In this executive roundtable, we’ll unpack a challenge many organizations are wrestling with: How do you increase productivity without burning people out—or losing the talent you most need to keep?

Together, we’ll explore:

  • What’s actually driving today’s productivity stalls—and why AI investment isn’t translating into measurable gains.
  • The hidden friction points that break alignment, slow adoption of new ways of working, and fuel disengagement.
  • What deeper listening can reveal about workload, trust, and buy-in.
  • A real-world example of how leaders sped up a high-priority transformation effort by uncovering friction points and strengthening alignment across teams.
See the 2026 Agenda
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Speaker
Cory Schneider
Director, Advisory
Seramount
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