ANN M. HARTEN
Vice President, Global Human Resources HaworthAnn M. Harten is Vice President of Global Human Resources at Haworth where she first joined in 2005 as Vice President of Global Information Services. She has served as an officer in both Public and Private companies and now spearheads all of Haworth’s Human Resources initiatives including the design and implementation of a multi-tiered, global leadership development program and a leading edge Agile Work program. She is an active member of the executive team where she reports to the CEO.
Her combination of IT and HR expertise provides a solid foundation for her influence on for profit and not-for-profit boards. Possessing great business acumen and an appreciation for detail, she is also able to engage in strategic conversations relating to the general workings of an organization. Results driven and metrics oriented, she is also savvy to the more subtle nuances existing in the corporation and has a keen eye for talent selection. Her extensive international travel brings a robust sense of global perspective to the table. When you combine this with a well practiced public speaking talent, you have a person who has a great ability to educate, explain and influence.
Previously, Harten served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for SIRVA, Inc.
This lively presentation, using vignettes and storytelling, will provide insight to Human Resources leaders that providing their employees with choices will enhance their work-day experience. How to work in a more ‘Agile’ way, while ensuring they create the necessary processes to keep your teams working effectively. Even if your company considers its workforce as agile, you may learn how to make it more effective. In this session, you will learn about the following concepts and how HR can play a key role:
- Workers today are driven by a need for autonomy over where and when they work to achieve their desired performance. How can your organization provide more choice and support flexibility?
- Employees are turning more and more to open and interactive spaces. These types of areas can encourage collaboration, and can also introduce distractions. How do workplace design and organizational norms provide the right balance to encourage both collaboration and focus work?
- A key element of effective change management is clear and consistent communication yet many change efforts fall short of the goal, resulting in wasted time, effort, and resources. Bringing supervisors on board for a change to bring agility and flexibility can be hard. How can you help them? What are they afraid of losing and how can you help them see it differently?
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