Leading with Influence: Inspiring and Motivating Teams

This session equips people leaders with a practical framework to influence without authority, a critical skill for driving alignment and change in today's matrixed organizations. Attendees walk away with concrete strategies to navigate power dynamics, build trust, and create shared vision rather than pushing their own agenda. The interactive format helps leaders immediately apply the Frame It, Pitch It, Guide It, Close It model to real influence situations they're facing right now.

Special Announcement

Join us for a brief special announcement from 15Five's VP of Product Marketing!

Networking Rooms

Our interactive networking rooms are designed to create space for honest dialogue, shared experiences, and practical insight with peers and leaders across the HR spectrum. Each room offers a distinct experience, from career-building conversations for emerging HR professionals to candid, executive-level discussions on navigating strategic change. You’ll choose your networking room, have the opportunity to ask questions, engage in discussion, and leave with new perspectives, fresh ideas, and connections you can actually follow up on. Whether you’re looking to grow your influence, pulse-check challenges with peers, or hear directly from senior leaders, these rooms are built to help you connect with purpose.

The ROI of People: Human Capital as a Competitive Advantage

HR leaders know that people drive performance. The challenge is making that value unmistakable in executive and board-level conversations where budgets, risk, and return are constantly weighed.

In this session, Anthony Onesto is joined by Laura Queen and Bart Houlahan, two leaders who work at the intersection of human capital and financial decision-making. Their work brings them into close partnership with boards, investors, and executive teams, giving them a clear view into how people investments are evaluated when they compete with every other business priority.

Together, they will unpack why workforce investment is still instinctively viewed as an expense, why that framing is increasingly outdated, and how leading organizations are quantifying employee experience as a real driver of performance and long-term value. The conversation will explore new data showing the link between human capital and business outcomes, what top-performing companies consistently do differently, and which people practices truly drive results beyond surface-level perks.

Live AMA with Karina Young

With a new year brings new questions and challenges. What’s top of mind as we dive into 2026? Submit your questions below (anonymously if you prefer) and Karina will share her perspective live.

HR Superstars Podcast: Questions Every HR Leader Should Be Able to Answer

HR leaders are expected to have answers, but the real advantage comes from asking better questions.

In this HR Superstars podcast, Karina Young is joined by Dana Calder, SVP of People at Spreedly, and Dr. Dieter Veldsman, Chief HR Scientist at AIHR, to unpack five questions that help HR leaders cut through noise, use data more effectively, and focus on what actually drives outcomes.

Closing Remarks

Don't miss out on our raffle drawings, educational credits, and more!