What HR Can Learn from Smaller, More Agile Businesses to Thrive in Today’s Challenging, Competitive US Market

In many organisations, HR leadership is siloed from commercial strategy but in today’s fast-moving environment, that separation slows everything down. For smaller, leaner businesses, the CPO’s partnership with the COO and other c-suite members is the ultimate force multiplier. Together, they can fuse people strategy with business goals, remove friction, and move quickly on new opportunities. This session explores how CPOs can embed themselves at the heart of decision-making, influence company direction in real-time, and ensure that every leadership decision is backed by the right talent, culture, and capability. The result? An agile organisation that scales faster, boosts profitability, and outpaces bigger competitors.

Key Takeaways:

• Create a shared vision with HR as a commercial growth driver
• Build seamless partnerships with operations to align people, performance, and profit
• Use Stuart’s leadership coaching to scale culture, strategic execution, C-suite decision-making and speed
• Redesign recruitment and onboarding to deliver the right talent faster using AI and key partnerships
• Leveraging a customised high performing teams coaching program to maintain high engagement and retention while keeping structures lean and adaptable
• Demonstrate HR’s direct impact on financial and strategic outcomes