

HR Strategies for the VUCA world
- How will we work in the future?
- Why does agility make sense in HR?
- How can we implement agile methods in HR?
- How should HR transform to manage an agile organization?
- How does HR gain a more strategic perspective to act as internal consultant helping to build a future-proof organization?
- How do we merge the old and the new agile world and foster necessary change inside the system?
Digital transformation is changing the way people work and create value. The relationship between humans and technology is becoming closer. Increasing diversity creates opportunities and needs to be managed with care. Agile methods gain more importance.
These concepts require deep changes in mindset and culture. We will learn from use cases at this webinar that many companies are applying these changes, resulting in better culture and work – some as beginners, others already advanced. More and more HR professionals use agile methods and tools to achieve these goals faster and with better success. This webinar also aims to share the stories and exchange experiences in virtual networking. Whereas VUCA stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, Harvard professor Bill George suggested an alternative understanding as a reaction: vision, understanding, courage, adaptability.
Volatility
Ever-faster changes in surrounding ecosystems are hard to predict. The nature of work itself is transforming, forcing HR departments to adapt to change, but also foster change. Agility is no longer a buzz word, but a necessity.
Uncertainty
Despite Big Data and AI crises social, economic or political crises affecting the business are hard to predict for HR professionals. Less stability in systems require even more the regular re-assessment of HR strategies and methodologies.
Complexity
Digitalisation, Industry 4.0 and globalization have been creating more complexity than ever before. This added complexity requires new approaches for recruiting, organizational management and HR development. In this context one important aspect for HR is to take full advantage of digital technology.
Ambiguity
It has become a key qualification - especially for executives - to manage ambiguous and contradicting behavior or expectations inside and outside the organization in a productive way. Which methods can HR apply to increase the tolerance for ambiguity?
How does all of this apply in practice? Some examples:
- Flexible competence-based roles are more efficient and lead to better results than strictly defined functions.
- Leadership should replace classical past-oriented feedback to employees with positive future-oriented empowerment.
- Critical feedback makes more sense in bottom-up direction helping to enable better leadership and culture.
- Psychological safety, equal opportunities to contribute and mutual trust are key for people to succeed in teams.
Interactive Networking Format
- Inspiring talks (Cutting-edge business cases, strategies, technology, best management practices, analysis, methods)
- Workshops
- Networking meetings
- Online archive and community
Topics
- HR strategies and methods for the 4.0 environment
- Leadership in a digitalized world
- New Work and hybrid models
- Employee Experience Management
- Agility in HR
- Agile Leadership
- Agile Innovation
- Learning Organization and Error Culture
- Digital Roadmap for HR
- Organizational development and new roles in the digital world
- VUCA world and HR
- People Analytics
- Cultural Change
Networking went very well, great! Exciting talks!
Marko Wolter, HR Director EMEA, DMG Mori AG
Thanks again for Swiss Leaders Dialog Digital HR Disruption. Inspiring content from speakers. Networking was enriching.
Rolf Arnet, Head Human Resources Management, Aduno Gruppe
Thank you for organising this event. The quality exceeded my expectation.
Patrick Berchtold, Product Marketing Manager, hubware
First of all thank you for this great conference. Really exciting key notes and optimal organisation.
Andreas Schnurrenberger, Sales Manager Industrial Systems & HVSG, Bucher Hydraulics AG
Great event with a lot of practical value. Perfect content and networking. Once again thanks for the excellent organization.
Angela Koch, Marketing Manager, apetito AG
Cinzia Campanini, Group People & Culture Director, Awin Global
The Business Case for Employee Experience (EX) in the VUCA World
- A bit of history of EX
- The 3 Key Principles of EX
- Real-life examples of EX from Awin (a global digital marketing company)
Dr. Wolfgang Brnjak, Vice President HR Guidance & Methods, Deutsche Telekom
Digitization of HR processes via Mobile Services
- Necessities and chances due to New Work
- Employee App as an innovative point of contact
- Examples of fully automated HR processes via Mobile Services
Vesna Vodopivec, HR Manager, NLB d.d.
VUCA in HR? - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity vs. Vision, Understanding, Courage, Adaptability
- How to address VUCA in HR?
- Just our new reality?
- Build internal capacity, imagine an unimaginable future
- Vision, Understanding, Courage, Adaptability
Mohammed Alahmed, Head of HR Business Partnerships, OPEC Fund
HR under an Agile Leadership
- Characteristics of Agile Leadership profile and environment
- The importance of Agile Leadership in the Future workplace
- Future of HR in an Agile Leadership environment
Irina Kureichyk, Director, Head of Learning & Development, EPAM Systems
Elastic L&D: Integrating SMEs into your Learning Ecosystem
- Having a network of SMEs ready to support your L&D team in scaling your learning program when you need to cover an increased learning need, but not generating any cost when the demand is gone?
- Implementation of all stages of the SMEs engagement cycle – from "recruitment" to recognition and rewarding
- Challenges and advantages of having SMEs contributing to the design and delivery of learning programs
- Insights about the framework of the internal expertise circulation, which is critical for fast-growing companies where scalability and flexibility is key
Mariah Danielle Jaquelin Pedersen, HR Director UK & International, iRhythm Technologies Ltd.
HR Strategies and Methods for the 4.0 Environment
- HR strategies after the paradigm shift
- Adapting to constant change
- How companies are embracing new methods to continue to evolve
Aleksandra Corzun, Founder & Recruiting Expert, Way Out Consulting AG
How to Engage Candidates in the New Agile World
- Talent attraction is no longer only about what benefits you can offer, but also about how good you can hold the attention and motivation of potential candidates during hiring process. If you don’t actively interact with your candidates, they will not work with you.
- Why is candidate engagement much more than communicating key corporate values?
- What do digital-age candidates expect from future employers?
- Which key ingredients should an agile recruitment process entail?
- What are most effective candidate engagement practices in a new world?
Saskia Willich, Global Marketing Training Manager Program Management, Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA
Transformation of a Traditional Company into a Learning Organisation
- Best Practice: Digital Now Academy by Ottobock
- How to establish a learning culture in traditional companies
- Tips, lessons learned, mistakes made
Alina Servillat, Employer Engagement Consultant, Europe, Imperial College Business School
Beyond Resilience: Leading in a VUCA World
- "THE" skill that individually stands out in leaders and collectively impacts performance
- The concept of "flexilience"
- Ways to assess the flexilience concept and develop it in individual leaders and collective teams
Zena Everett, Speaker and Author of The Crazy Busy Cure
Crazy Busy HR: Managing Overwhelm and Burnout in a Digitized World
- Removing organisational drag is the vital bridge between strategy and execution
- How to get things done
- Practical tools to clear organisational drag and smooth the workflow to cut through the overwhelm
Time (CET) | Activity | |
08:30 | Opening by the chairman | |
08:45 | Transformation of a Traditional Company into a Learning Organisation Saskia Willich, Global Marketing Training Manager Program Management, Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA | ![]() |
09:15 | HR under an Agile Leadership Mohammed Alahmed, Head of HR Business Partnerships, OPEC Fund | ![]() |
09:45 | The Business Case for Employee Experience (EX) in the VUCA World Cinzia Campanini, Group People & Culture Director, Awin Global | ![]() |
10:15 | VUCA in HR? - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity vs. Vision, Understanding, Courage, Adaptability Vesna Vodopivec, HR Manager, NLB d.d. | ![]() |
10:45 | Break | ![]() |
11:15 | How to Engage Candidates in the New Agile World Aleksandra Corzun, Founder & Recruiting Expert, Way Out Consulting AG | ![]() |
11:45 | Elastic L&D: Integrating SMEs into your Learning Ecosystem Irina Kureichyk, Director, Head of Learning & Development, EPAM Systems | ![]() |
12:15 | Lunch Break | ![]() |
13:15 | Crazy Busy HR: Managing Overwhelm and Burnout in a Digitized World Zena Everett, Speaker and Author of The Crazy Busy Cure | ![]() |
13:45 | Digitization of HR processes via Mobile Services Dr. Wolfgang Brnjak, Vice President HR Guidance & Methods, Deutsche Telekom | ![]() |
14:15 | HR Strategies and Methods for the 4.0 Environment Mariah Danielle Jaquelin Pedersen, HR Director UK & International, iRhythm Technologies Ltd. | ![]() |
14:45 | Beyond Resilience: Leading in a VUCA World Alina Servillat, Employer engagement consultant, Europe, Imperial College Business School | ![]() |
15:15 | Closing discussion and wrap-up |
Time (CET) | Activity | |
08:30 | Opening by the chairman | |
08:45 | Transformation of a Traditional Company into a Learning Organisation Saskia Willich, Global Marketing Training Manager Program Management, Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA | ![]() |
09:15 | HR under an Agile Leadership Mohammed Alahmed, Head of HR Business Partnerships, OPEC Fund | ![]() |
09:45 | The Business Case for Employee Experience (EX) in the VUCA World Cinzia Campanini, Group People & Culture Director, Awin Global | ![]() |
10:15 | VUCA in HR? - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity vs. Vision, Understanding, Courage, Adaptability Vesna Vodopivec, HR Manager, NLB d.d. | ![]() |
10:45 | Break | ![]() |
11:15 | How to Engage Candidates in the New Agile World Aleksandra Corzun, Founder & Recruiting Expert, Way Out Consulting AG | ![]() |
11:45 | Elastic L&D: Integrating SMEs into your Learning Ecosystem Irina Kureichyk, Director, Head of Learning & Development, EPAM Systems | ![]() |
12:15 | Lunch Break | ![]() |
13:15 | Crazy Busy HR: Managing Overwhelm and Burnout in a Digitized World Zena Everett, Speaker and Author of The Crazy Busy Cure | ![]() |
13:45 | Digitization of HR processes via Mobile Services Dr. Wolfgang Brnjak, Vice President HR Guidance & Methods, Deutsche Telekom | ![]() |
14:15 | HR Strategies and Methods for the 4.0 Environment Mariah Danielle Jaquelin Pedersen, HR Director UK & International, iRhythm Technologies Ltd. | ![]() |
14:45 | Beyond Resilience: Leading in a VUCA World Alina Servillat, Employer engagement consultant, Europe, Imperial College Business School | ![]() |
15:15 | Closing discussion and wrap-up |

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