Aligning People & Profit: Investing in talent during a shifting market

Imagine you’re a midwestern kid in the 90’s. You want to host a roundtable about championship-level basketball, so you shoot for the stars and ask Michael Jordan, Scotty Pippen, Dennis Rodman, and Steve Kerr to join the discussion. To your surprise, they say yes, and you spend an hour getting insights from the best in the game.

This actually happened to me - except the topic was aligning people & profit, and the panel included Sarah Young, David Hanrahan, Jessica Moon, and Niko Skievaski. We held a virtual live roundtable, met members of our community, and tackled questions from the audience like how to create alignment at the executive level and how to navigate a layoff as a human-centric leader.

Key Take-aways:

• In times that are tight, prioritize investing in front line managers

• Front line managers need to be comfortable with change management, over-communication, and leading through shifting company goals

• All leaders must make tough decisions in the short term; human centric leaders balance those decisions with what’s best in the long term

• While navigating through shifting times, people want truth & empathy

View the recording here-