HR Professionals as Cultural Architects:
Are you Ready to ABIDE? Five Strategies
for a ‘New’ HR Post-Pandemic
presented by Lisa M. Sanchez, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CPLC
and Lori Gentles, MBA, SPHR
As we move toward post-pandemic, the focus has shifted from navigating the employee experience “through” the pandemic, to more of an emphasis on embracing the “whole” person as they adjust to a work experience beyond the normalcy of brick and mortar, cubicles and offices. Normal is no more – gone forever. What’s here to stay is organizational fluidity, which is necessary for a healthy culture.
Gentles and Sanchez will discuss strategies to tap into the “whole” person and reinforce their sense of resiliency and self-leadership. These strategies will have a direct impact on the employee experience, employee engagement and mental fitness, and the organization’s productivity and profit goals.
As authors and HR professionals, they merge the lessons learned in their books with their 55+ combined years of HR experience to bring thoughtful considerations for leading HR.
Objectives:
- Understand the necessity of moving away from transactional to a transformational, if not disruptive, HR
- Know that thinking outside the box is yesterday; You have to blow it up!
- Recognize the value of having a “whole” person centered HR approach
- Understand the interconnectedness between access, belonging, inclusion, diversity, equity (ABIDE) and organizational culture in order to effect change
- Identify strategies to re-invent and resurrect a new HR
Lisa M. Sanchez, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CPLC, ArtCenter College of Design
Lisa Sanchez has been in HR management and leadership positions since 1995 in hotels, non-profit, public and private sectors and union and nonunion environments. Since March 2015, she is the VPHR at ArtCenter College of Design. She leads a team dedicated to enriching the experiences and engagement for faculty and staff. Critical to this work is Sanchez’s direct work in diversity, equity, inclusion, access and belonging. She spends a great deal of time in the space of organizational culture, and recently changed her department name from Human Resources to the Office of the Employee Experience and Engagement. She received her bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from California State University, Northridge, a master’s degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix, and is a certified professional life coach.
Lori Gentles, MBA, SPHR, City of Santa Monica
Lori Gentles is the chief people officer for the city of Santa Monica for the past three years. She is entrepreneurial and a transformative change-promoter. Lori has dedicated 20-plus years to inspiring and leading strategic organization-wide initiatives in various complex and diverse public sector agencies. Over the years, she has established a professional brand as a Cultural Architect specializing in designing, building and cultivating a culture that embraces employee empowerment and leverages individual and collective genius through creativity, diversity, equity and inclusion. She received a bachelor’s degree in Interpersonal Communication from Arizona State University, and a MBA in International Business from Saint Mary’s College of California.
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