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Resilience by Design: Engineering an Employee Lifecycle Where People Thrive

  • Friday, November 06, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Tysons, VA

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What if the key to a resilient workforce isn't asking employees to be more resilient, but designing an organization that enables people to thrive?

In today's environment of constant change, disruption, and increasing complexity, organizations cannot rely on individual resilience alone. Culture, leadership, talent practices, and the employee experience all shape an organization's capacity to help people grow, adapt, and perform at their best.

For CHROs, this creates a critical opportunity: to step back and examine the entire employee lifecycle and ask whether the systems, practices, and culture are creating the conditions for people to thrive, or unintentionally creating barriers to growth, engagement, and resilience.

In this interactive session, HR leaders will take a systemic look at the employee lifecycle; from attraction and onboarding through development, leadership, retention, and transition—to identify where organizations can intentionally design for resilience, growth, and organizational health.

Key Focus Areas

  • Talent Acquisition & Onboarding: Discover how to identify candidates with the capacity to navigate change and uncertainty, and orient new hires to the relationships, resources, and tools they need to fully tap their capacity for resilience.
  • Employee Development: Learn targeted strategies for helping your workforce cultivate a “purpose hierarchy” and develop the skills and mindset necessary to adapt, grow, and perform through change.
  • Retention & Culture: Identify structural ways to address toxic elements and organizational barriers that can undermine resilience, while creating an environment that supports engagement, performance, and long-term success.
  • The PUSH Framework: Utilize a prescriptive model to systematically assess and strengthen resilience across your organization’s existing talent practices.

The CHRO Takeaway

Leave with a systemic lens for evaluating your employee lifecycle and organizational culture along with a practical approach for identifying where you can redesign the employee experience to foster greater resilience, adaptability, growth, and performance.

Because thriving isn't an employee benefit. It's an organizational outcome, and CHROs have the opportunity to design the conditions that make it possible.

Speaker: Stacy Cook,  Principal at Perception Learning

Stacy is a dynamic speaker, trainer, and organizational development consultant who currently serves as a Principal at Perception Learning. With over 4,000 hours of classroom training experience, she specializes in helping individuals and organizations close challenging soft skills gaps through customized programs in leadership development, resilience, and performance management. Her diverse professional background includes leading the Learning and Development Center of Excellence at FMP Consulting, serving as a Program Manager for a Department of Defense Task Force in Baghdad, and working as a trainer and performance coach for The Alexander Company. A recognized thought leader who has presented at major events such as the ATD International Conference and the SHRM Annual Conference, Stacy focuses on delivering practical value and immediately applicable tools to her audiences. She holds an MA in Adult Learning and Leadership from Teachers College of Columbia University.

Event Details:

8:00am - 8:45am - Registration + Breakfast + Networking

8:45am - 9:00am - Interactive Team Building Activity

9:00am - 10:30am - Program


IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR 1.5 HRCI + SHRM CREDITS

PROGRAM ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED

         

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