Perspectives for CHROs
Actionable insights to help leaders navigate today’s workplace and talent evolution
As an HR leader in today’s complex environment, we know you rely on your people as your most critical resource for success while you lead your organization through ongoing transformation. With the right structures, systems, and skills for your needs, your people can reach their full potential and your organization can deliver sustained performance.
We invite you to engage in conversations with McKinsey experts and industry leaders on the practices that can ensure your people and your organization thrive. By joining our global CHRO Community, you will receive curated insights and invitations to participate in small group discussions with your peers.
Alexis Krivkovich
Senior Partner and global co-lead of McKinsey People and Organizational Performance Practice
Ulf Schrader
Senior Partner and global co-lead of McKinsey People and Organizational Performance Practice
Events
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Agentic organization
Companies are moving toward a new paradigm of humans, AI agents, and machines working together to create value. Here’s what we’ve...
More learned from early adopters—and what you can do next.
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Organize to Value
In this session, people function and HR leaders heard from client leaders Brooke Weddle, Deepak Mahadevan, and Mark Redgrave for a...
More discussion on how operating model transformation can help achieve four key outcomes essential for success in a dynamic world.
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Shaping the future of people management
Continuing the Reimagining HR global webinar series, our McKinsey & Company experts shared the latest insights on how organizations can...
More create a leaner, more strategic, and more fluid approach for people management and the people function. Unlocked by technologies such as AI, gen AI, and agentic AI, this new era will be more human-centric and tech-enabled—boosting organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, and productivity.
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Strategic Workforce Planning
What talent will you need to succeed – now and in the future? In this virtual discussion with McKinsey & Company experts, we delved into...
More the intricacies of Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) and its pivotal role in aligning your organization's talent with your business objectives. The session explored the integration of Gen AI into strategic planning at scale to forecast workforce needs, sustain competitive advantage, and ensure that the right skills are available at the right time.
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When teams get healthier, the whole organization benefits
In our global webinar series, Reimagining HR, we share insights based on conversations with 100+ senior people leaders on how the people...
More function is evolving to address the challenges of rising geopolitical risks and a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous business environment. In this session, people function and HR leaders will hear from some of McKinsey’s leading People & Organizational Performance experts on ways to improve team effectiveness for organizational success.
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Top 5 myths about performance management
In our global webinar series Reimagining HR, we shared insights based on conversations with 100+ senior people leaders on how the people...
More function is evolving to address the challenges of rising geopolitical risks and a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous business environment.
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Organizational health as a competitive advantage
Our research over the past 20 years consistently finds that organizational health creates value, builds resilience, and drives...
More performance. In fact, healthy organizations deliver 3x the total shareholder returns of unhealthy organizations—regardless of industry.
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Organizational health is (still) the key to long-term performance
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