Date: Tuesday 4th June 2024
Time: 8:30am – 10:00am
Topic: Mastering the Art of CEO Management: A Guide for HR Leaders
Key topics in this session:
- Understanding the CEO’s Vision: Align your strategies with the CEO’s vision for the company. Understand the importance of communication in conveying this vision to the rest of the team
- Influencing Decision-Making: Discover techniques to effectively influence the CEO’s decisions in a respectful and professional manner. Learn how to present data and arguments that resonate with the CEO.
- Building Trust: Understand the importance of building a strong, trust-based relationship with the CEO. Learn practical steps to earn and maintain this trust over time
- Managing Conflict: Gain insights into managing disagreements or conflicts with the CEO. Learn how to navigate these situations while maintaining a positive working relationship.
Mark Hammerton
Mark is an employment law partner within Eversheds Sutherland’s Employment, Labour and Pensions Group. Mark has focused on employment law since qualifying in 1994 and he has been a partner since 2005. As an employer, Mark can advise you across the full range of employment and labor issues globally. This includes the people aspects of transactions, having worked on hundreds of outsourcing and corporate deals. Mark has many years’ experience helping clients take a commercial approach to the challenges of TUPE. Mark has worked on cross-border and UK-only deals. Mark advises extensively on engagement and misclassification issues, assisting clients in navigating the evolving case law and legislation on status. Mark works with clients managing their contingent workforces on issues such as the IR35 off-payroll tax reforms, the Agency Workers Regulations and the Employment Businesses/Agencies Conduct regulations which apply in the UK to staffing companies and their customers. Mark can help employers resolve difficult workplace issues such as executive terminations, National Minimum Wage compliance, and complex disciplinary and grievance matters (including matters involving whistle-blowing and relationship breakdown). He has led complex restructuring and reorganisation projects, including in the context of insolvency. Mark has inputted into various Government consultations and supported leading business and industry bodies on, for example, the response to the Covid-19 pandemic and contingent workers reforms.
Susie Fehr
Susie Fehr is an experienced Human Resources Executive known for providing time-sensitive solutions to complex organisational, strategic, and employee-related issues. She excels at maximising operational effectiveness while minimising business risk. She has a proven track record of assembling and leading national and international HR teams, motivating and empowering individuals, and ensuring adaptation to rapid business change.
As a partner to the CEO/Chairman, she guides them through complex C-suite performance and organisational issues while maximising the effectiveness of the executive team. She pays strong attention to interactions between business-critical functions, implementing synergistic workstreams to ensure a cohesive approach to achieving business goals. Some of her standout projects have included engaging and retaining staff through a complex acquisition process, ensuring business continuity and retention of key expertise; professionalising and modernising HR and operational processes to create a more engaged workforce, reducing staff turnover and cutting recruitment costs; and implementing new processes to allow for effective talent retention and promotion, enhancing the internal talent pool. She has been at the forefront of employee and business transformation throughout her career. She has worked for large PLC’s and industry leaders as well as SME’s, start-ups, and consultancies. Having worked for US, UK, and Japanese businesses, she understands how to navigate complex cross-cultural boardroom issues, ensuring HR policy and business vision always work hand in hand. Her specialties include Strategic Business Leadership, Change Management, Senior Stakeholder Management, M&A Assessment, Acquisition Integration, Executive Performance Management, Cultural Assessment & Development, Executive Compensation, Total Rewards Programmes, Organisational Design, Global Talent Acquisition, Succession Planning, HRIS Evaluation & Implementation, Diversity Equality & Inclusion, Coaching, Executive Coaching, Employee Training, Leadership, Team Management, Programme Management, Employee Relations, and Union Relationship Management.