Organizations have faced unprecedented challenges in the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic and global economic downturn created chaos, uncertainty, and massive disruption. If there were ever any doubt about the importance of a leader’s ability to navigate change, uncertainty, and disruption, there isn’t anymore. Leading through change and uncertainty is difficult. Providing clarity, keeping teams engaged, making decisions, leading with empathy, and avoiding burnout can become overwhelming, even for the most gifted leaders.
This webinar will explore how organizations manage change and prepare leaders to navigate an uncertain, rapidly changing business landscape. Join a panel of industry leaders as they share their perspectives on the critical skills required to lead.
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Maria Taylor is the chief learning officer at United Airlines. In this newly created role, Maria is responsible for building a best-in-class learning organization. Throughout her career, Maria has combined strategic and financial acumen with organizational and leadership development to build the processes, systems, and talent required for rapid and profitable growth. She has worked with clients in strategic and market planning, talent and learning systems solution design, and executive education. Maria co-authored Human Resource Transformation (Davies-Black 2008) and The Strategic Human Resource Leader: How to Prepare Your Organization for the 6 Key Trends Shaping the Future (Davies-Black 1998), and she has been published in the Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Management Development, and The Institute for the Study of Organizational Effectiveness.
Jodi Rabinowitz is the head of talent and organization development at Zoom Video Communications and former head of talent acquisition and organizational development at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she implemented a five-year strategic plan focused on enhancing the employee experience. She honed her nimble leadership approach as a talent advisor at the Center for Creative Leadership and through her early career in social work. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from the University of Pennsylvania.
Cheryl Smith leads talent management for Xerox, a public company with more than 25,000 employees globally. She is a seasoned talent professional with more than 25 years of success in talent assessment, succession planning, leadership development, employee engagement, organizational surveys, and change programs for world-class, global organizations such as Gartner, Legrand, Diageo, MetLife, and AIG. Cheryl has a PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from New York University and a BA in psychology from Yale. She lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut, with her three daughters.
Kip Kelly has more than 25 years of marketing and communications experience with talent management, executive education, professional coaching, and leadership development. His expertise in diversity, inclusion, and the use of data and analytics in learning and development has earned him a reputation as an industry leader. Kip has published more than 60 research studies and whitepapers, as featured in Chief Learning Officer, TD, Training Industry, HR Magazine, Fortune, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Financial Times.
