Breakout

Pete Church

Chief People & Culture Officer, Point32Health

Pete Church serves as chief people & culture officer at Point32Health. He provides strategic leadership and oversight for all aspects of the people organization, including compensation and benefits, talent management, diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, and organizational effectiveness. Pete also helps develop and guide Point32Health’s culture and aligns human resources strategy and governance with business strategy goals and values. He also oversees real estate and workplace services for Point32Health offices.

Pete joined Point32Health from AVANGRID Energy, where he was chief human resources officer. Previously, he held several leadership positions at UnitedHealth Group, including chief talent officer of UnitedHealthcare, vice president of Human Capital for Commercial Markets and vice president of Talent Acquisition and Workforce Insights. He also has held senior leadership positions at The Hartford Financial Services Group and Aetna. During his 20 years of human resources experience across diverse business and health care sectors, Pete has designed and implemented HR strategies that positively impact business performance and operating costs while increasing employee engagement and effectiveness.

Pete serves as a Strategic Advisory Board member for the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership. He holds both a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Hartford.

Why attend

Sessions

Breakout session

Tuesday, April 28, 1:30PM – 2:15PM

All the Difference: Turning Difference into Trust, Performance, and Value

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Difference isn’t theoretical. It shows up when decisions stall, tension goes unspoken, and capable leaders leave meetings frustrated, wondering why alignment feels harder than it should. In today’s fast-moving, AI-accelerated environments, those moments are happening more often and costing more.

When leaders avoid difference or try to smooth it over, the impact is predictable: insight gets lost, trust erodes quietly, and execution suffers. Not because people aren’t capable but because difference isn’t being led.

Susan MacKenty Brady and Lieutenant General (ret.) Leslie C. Smith, two of the three authors of the forthcoming All the Difference (Harvard Business Review Press), join Point32Health Chief People and Culture Officer Peter Church, an executive featured in the book for a frank conversation about what it really takes to lead through difference when stakes are high.

Grounded in real leadership moments - not theory - this session offers an early look at a new leadership framework designed for pressure, complexity, and competing perspectives.

Participants will leave with:

A clear point of view: why leading through difference is now a make-or-break leadership capability
Pattern recognition: the common missteps that derail trust and execution and how to interrupt them in real time
Practical moves: six Target Actions leaders can use immediately to bridge perspectives, strengthen teams, and drive results