HR RECHARGED, NEW YORK | 05/21/2025

Location:  Ease Hospitality

 605 3rd Ave 7th Floor, New York, NY 10158 Duration: 8:00am to 5:00pm

Dress Code: At your Comfort-Level

1. Culture in Overdrive: Breaking, Bending, and Rebuilding Values at Lightning Speed

2. Engineering Connection and Innovation through the Science of Teams

3. Navigating for the C-Level

4. Cultivating Tomorrow’s Leaders Today: AI Coaching for Talent Development

5. New Technologies Radically Changing Organizational Structure  

6. Talent Value Propositions Shaping Market Leaders 

From Breakfast to Drinks: 

Panels, Case-Studies, Ideas Xchange, Leadership Think-Tanks, New Research, New Solutions, Panel Debriefs, Meditations

Moderator: Rumbi Petrozzello, Head of Strategy Consulting at Seramount 

Julia Johnson, VP HR at IBM

Christin Merkel, EVP Global Talent at PVH

Sanj Rana, US Head of Talent at TD Bank

Michael Yohannes,  Senior Principal, People & Culture at Simcorp

Wagner Denuzzo

Leadership & OE Wizard, Author, CHRO Advisor (former Prudential, and IBM), 

Founder at Wagner Denuzzo Global

Jon Levy, NY Times Bestselling Author, Behavioral Scientist, Fortune 100 Advisor

Moderator: Catherine Allen, Director of Product Development at Torch

Zane Zumbahlen, Chief People Officer at Wedgewood Pharmaceuticals

Chris Forando, Snr Dir OD at Subway

Christopher Kim, Global Head of EX and Wellness at KKR

Annalyn Jacob, EVP Talent Analytics & O.D at IPG Mediabrands

A. The Authenticity Paradox: Exploring the Tension Between Realness and Role 

with Marjorie Spitz-Rento, MD at Balance Integration 

B. The New Leader - The Pivot Player 

with Emily Frieze-Kemeny, CEO at Arose Group

C.  Turning tensions into triumphs: Helping Leaders Transform Uncertainty into Opportunity

with Chloe Domergue, Principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP

D. Talent Engagement Council

with Rumbi Petrozzello, Head of Strategy Consulting at Seramount 

E. Interrupting Deeply Forged Patterns: The Easy and the Hard-to-Wins 

with Tevis Trower, CEO at Balance Integration

F. Self-Upgrades, Self-Regulations, and Wellbeing

with Stephen Sokoler, CEO at Journey

Moderator: Chloe Domergue, Principal at Deloitte

Martin Falkenberg, SVP HR at American Water

Darek Lenart, EVP People and Capability at Mastercard

Marina Hong, SVP HR at Bayer

Josh Newman, Global Head of People Strategy and Experience at WPP

Rahul Varma, CEO at Samuh, and Former Chief Talent Officer at Accenture

1.  Cultivating Tomorrow’s Leaders Today: AI Coaching for Talent Development with Levi Goertz, Co-Founder and Head of Client Solutions at Valence, and Liz Lowy, VP Talent & Development at Hearst

2.  2025 Global Human Capital Trends: Turning Tensions into Triumphs - 

Helping leaders transform uncertainty into opportunity, with Chloe Domergue, Principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP

2.  Connecting People with Work: Workforce AI in HR, with  Steve Holder, SVP Sales Strategy and Operations at Visier