Approved for 1.25 SHRM PDCs and 1.25 HRCI Business Credits

We will kick off the session by presenting our Silent Auction beneficiary, Manna on Main Street, with their big check from the event proceeds. We will also share our 10 percent matching donation to The SHRM Foundation.

Summary

In today’s volatile world shaped by political polarization, social media, and declining trust in institutions, uncertainty outside inevitably seeps into our workplaces. Employees are grappling with fear, instability, and a demand for fairness, transparency, and voice. This interactive session explores how leaders can respond with empathy, authenticity, and clarity to create a culture of trust and belonging. We’ll examine the forces shaping employee experience, why culture work is non-negotiable, and practical steps to ensure your people, and your organization, thrive.

Key Takeaways

• Position yourself as leaders to positively impact and influence organizational culture
• Implement three critical actions [ask, analyze, act]
• Tie culture investment to organizational performance

Speakers

Robyn Forman Pollack, Esq. is Workplace Culture Strategist and Co-Founder of Loutel. A business strategist with a focus on talent, Robyn takes an integrated and comprehensive approach to developing data-driven, strategic solutions to optimize people and culture for organizational performance. Utilizing her extensive background as a restructuring attorney, Robyn uniquely understands the alignment between talent performance and enterprise performance, and the importance of addressing systems and processes to maximize employee experience. Robyn has been actively involved in culture issues for over 25 years. She has lectured and written extensively on issues of equity, belonging, and inclusion best practices, culture, women in the workplace, inclusive communication, and effective leadership, and has advised both for-profit and not-for-profit small, middle market, and Fortune 500 companies.

Robyn has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law for almost 25 years. She is also a member of the Forum of Executive Women, where she serves on the Board of Directors and as Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, and is a member of the CUE Consultants Advisory Committee where she advises companies on issues of positive employee relations. Robyn has also served on numerous non-profit boards and created the Turnaround Management Association’s global women’s leadership and development initiative, TMA-NOW.

Lauren Molish is a seasoned Human Resources executive with more than two decades of experience helping organizations build strong workplace cultures that drive performance, trust and long-term growth. Most recently, she served as Executive Vice President of People and Process at Thomas J. Paul, where she built the HR function, modernized performance and talent programs and shaped the cultural strategy as the company transitioned from a 50-year, family-owned business into private equity ownership. In this role, Lauren also became a key partner in business operations with hands-on involvement in financial forecasting and operational decision making that supported the company’s transformation. Lauren’s background spans private equity, professional services, marketing, manufacturing and technology, including leadership roles at L3Harris and her work as founder of Molish HR Consulting. She is known for her ability to connect with people at every level of an organization and to cultivate trust in roles where that trust is not always automatic. She combines deep HR expertise with a strong understanding of business operations to help leadership teams navigate change and to create workplaces where employees feel valued and empowered to do their best work.

Food & Drink

We will have a sit down dinner for this event. Please email us at [email protected] if you have any dietary restrictions. We will do our best to accommodate. 

Joe Giamboi Inclusion Fund

The Joe Giamboi Inclusion Fund supports individuals in transition by covering the cost of dinner tickets. This fund aligns with GVFHRA’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging by providing access to networking and professional development opportunities.

Thank you to our sponsor!

Suzanne Gleason & Carolyn Novey