Brenda’s career spans 25 years in human capital management, with a focus on employee engagement, talent management, and rewards and recognition. Today she serves as a Practice Leader with Workhuman, where she leads a team of consultants working with global customers on innovative strategies for creating more human workplaces. The team is instrumental in launching successful culture and talent initiatives with some of the largest and most admired organizations in the world. While Brenda’s day-to-day focuses on supporting her team’s success, nothing energizes her more than engaging with customers in conversations about the power of social recognition to drive business results.
Before joining Workhuman in 2011, Brenda was the HR Consulting Practice Leader with Employers Resource Council in Cleveland, Ohio. Brenda holds a B.A. in Psychology from Boston University.
Sessions
Breakout session
Thursday, April 30, 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Action Planning for Workforce Sustainability
This session supports leaders and practitioners working to address burnout, retention risk, and the growing energy demands on today’s workforce. Using a structured but flexible planning framework, you’ll surface the signals you’ve noticed this week around workload, wellbeing, and manager strain—and turn them into a targeted, 30-day sustainability experiment for your team or organization.
Participants may benefit from attending sessions that explore resilience, wellbeing, leadership capacity, psychological safety, and manager enablement earlier in the week, as these themes will help inform the action plan you create during this session.
Sessions exploring these topics include:
MONDAY
Want to Improve Your Organization? Make it Fearless – Amy Edmondson
TUESDAY
Addressing Harm in the Workplace: Going Beyond Conflict Resolution – Serilda Summers McGee
The Psychology of Mistake Recovery: Building Trust Through Conflict Resolution – John Baldino
Energizing the Modern Manager: Recognition Strategies that Strengthen Culture – Dr. Meisha-ann Martin
All the Difference: Turning Difference into Trust, Performance, and Value – Susan MacKenty Brady, Peter Church, and Leslie C. Smith
Secrets to Scaling Happy Teams – Nya James
WEDNESDAY
Shatterproof: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos (And Why Resilience Isn’t Enough) – Dr. Tasha Eurich
How to Have Difficult Conversations and Actually Enjoy the Process – Jeff Harry
How to Change Culture in 20 Minutes or Less: Small System Shifts to Improve Well-Being Motivation, and Performance – Jennifer Moss
The Great Many: Truly Human Leadership for a Brighter Tomorrow – Hamza Khan
Leading with Meaning: The Three C’s of Work that Matter – Tamara Myles
Culture Repair in Action: How Leaders Build Trust After Disruption – Julie Develin
Workhuman’s Global Barometer Research – Darcy Jacobsen
THURSDAY
The Power of Beliefs: Seven Core Beliefs that Drive Performance, Engagement & Purpose – Shawn Achor
Download the editable action planning worksheet that will be used in the workshop.
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