For those arriving Monday, April 8th. Please pick up your badge and welcome bag in the Holdsworth Learning Center to the right of the circle drive as you enter.

The Dining Room is located in the Holdsworth Learning Center between the Coffee & Libation Bar and the Pavilion.

Mats provided. Athletic wear encouraged. The South Lawn is located in front of the Pavilion facing Lake Austin.

Matthew Duncan: Head of Thought Leadership on the Future of Work, Microsoft.

Generative AI promises to transform work for every role and function. Becoming an AI-Powered Organization will take new leadership, talent and a reimagination of how work gets done. Join Matthew Duncan as he shares an AI-powered approach to unlock productivity, unleash creativity, and uplevel skills for everyone.

Katy George: Chief People Officer & Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, New Jersey.

Bryan Hancock: Partner, McKinsey & Company, Washington, D.C.

Emily Field: Partner, McKinsey & Company, Seattle.

Managers play a key role in driving organizational value, particularly when it comes to scaling and capturing value from GenAI, making it crucial to accurately define their responsibilities and ensure they receive support.

Room 206 | Amid Disruptions, Culture is (still) the Key Competitive Advantage in Driving Long-term Performance with Alex Camp and Drew Goldstein

Alex Camp: Partner, McKinsey & Company, New York

Drew Goldstein: Partner, McKinsey & Company, Charlotte

Organizational health, driven by decisive leadership, data-driven innovation, and dynamic deployment of talent, remains the best predictor of value creation and a sustainable source of competitive advantage in today’s global marketplace.

Room 106 | Embracing the Now: Strategies for Adopting and Implementing Generative A.I. with Thao Le

Thao Le: Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft

Generative A.I. is a field that offers opportunities for creating novel and valuable content, products, and services. However, it also requires a shift in mindset and culture, and overcoming challenges and risks. How can business leaders embrace the now and foster a culture of generative A.I. innovation?

Room 200 | Connective Tissue: What Truly Binds and Bonds a Team with Darren Murph and Dr. Molly Sands

Darren Murph: Head of Technology Strategy Communications, Ford

Dr. Molly Sands: Head of Team Anywhere Lab, Atlassian

Moderated by Phil Kirschner: Senior Expert and Associate Partner, Real Estate & People and Organizational Performance, McKinsey & Company, New York

Connective Tissue: What Truly Binds and Bonds a Team offers a deep dive into the art and science of building robust, unified teams in the digital era. Hosted by industry leaders Darren Murph (Ford) and Molly Sands, PhD (Atlassian), this session unravels the complexities of nurturing team productivity, connection, and engagement across the digital divide. Through a focused exploration of the Meeting on Purpose Pillar, our speakers will guide attendees through the transformative approaches needed to maintain and strengthen bonds in a modern work environment.

Room 204 | Increasing your ‘Return’ on Talent: How to Think Differently About Talent Productivity with Neel Gandhi and Charlotte Seiler

Neel Gandhi: Partner & Leader, North America Talent and HR Practice, McKinsey & Company, New York

Charlotte Seiler: Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, San Francisco

New McKinsey research shows the value at stake from increasing the productivity of your most valuable resource – your people. One of the most critical levers to drive productivity is to ensure your people have the right skills and capabilities to deliver. This session will focus on how to put the right talent (with the right skills) in the highest value roles – while also thinking about how those highest value roles and talent pools are changing.

Room 104 | How to Lead in a Fragmenting and Disorienting World? Part One with Prof Jeremy Hunter and Rajkumari Neogy

Prof Jeremy Hunter: Founder, Leadership Institute & Professor, Peter F. Drucker School

Rajkumari Neogy: CEO / founder ibelong

A poly-crisis world is inherently destabilizing. Yet, for leaders, clarity and coherence are essential to make sense of their day-to-day and act appropriately. Cognitive skills are no longer sufficient in our VUCA world. A new set of muscles are required to take on a leadership role in organizations contending with crisis. By expanding what counts as part of our humanity, leaders can cultivate skillsets that help and their teams more effectively face challenges. In this two-part, highly experiential program, we will guide you through assessing your state of fragmentation in order to shift yourself into balance.

In part one, we’ll explore the cost of fragmentation: toxic workplace behavior, attrition, stress, world event and workforce disengagement. And how these types of working environments impact our nervous systems that lead to overwhelm, imposter syndrome, anxiety, depression and physical symptoms. And how we lose access to attention, focus, inner stability and resilience.

Room 103 | Innovative Friction vs. Destructive Conflict: Harnessing Constructive Disagreements for Creative Breakthroughs with Rev. Steven Tomlinson, Ph.D. and Qussai Patrick Naiyf

Rev. Steven Tomlinson, Ph.D.: Seminary of the Southwest

Qussai Patrick Naiyf: Senior Learning & Performance Consultant, RBC

Creative conflict drives innovation and inclusion and differentiates your organization. What does it look like, how do you encourage it and make it safe for your people, and what difference can it make? Qussai Patrick Naiyf and Steven Tomlinson find lessons in the experience of Royal Bank of Canada for companies that want to foster creative conflict at work.

Room 206 | Navigating AI Transformation: Culture, Leadership, and Engagement with Chris Echelmeier and Ellen Poissant

Chris Echelmeier: Employee Experience and AI Leader, Microsoft

Ellen Poissant: Employee Experience and AI Leader, Microsoft

AI is the driving force behind the 4th Industrial Revolution, which is transforming existing industries and unlocking new levels of innovation and productivity. Join our panel of experts in a discussion about the critical intersections of culture change, leadership, engagement, and DE&I in this new world of work fueled by GenAI.

Room 106 | Hybrid Can Be Healthy When Done Right: Purposeful Presence and Places with Phil Kirschner and Kim McHale

Phil Kirschner: Senior Expert and Associate Partner, Real Estate & People and Organizational Performance, McKinsey & Company, New York

Kim McHale: North America Experience Operations Lead, Atlassian

The workplace of the future will be remote-first, but not place-less. This means reimagining both our ways of working and the places we work. Organizations that strike the right balance between workplace flexibility and reimagined purpose of the office can achieve speed, sustainable performance, and a distinctive employee experience. No mandates required.

Room 200 | Performance through People Roundtable with Chris Jensen and Alex Camp

Chris Jensen: Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at NXP Semiconductors

Alex Camp: Partner, McKinsey & Company, New York

People are our competitive advantage. There is a high ROI on human capital investment. It also allows us to reach peak productivity and prosperity.

Room 204 | The Power of Rituals & Symbols in Shaping Culture with John Parsons and Ran Li Phelps

John Parsons: Managing Sr. Partner Western Canada, McKinsey & Company

Ran Li Phelps: Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, New York

Rituals and symbols are crucial in creating, scaling, and embedding a high-performance culture in organizations across various industries and sizes.

Courtyard | mprov for Leaders with Josh Jones-Dilworth

Josh Jones-Dilworth: CEO, JDI & co-founder, Culturati

Back by popular demand! Improv skills can give leaders a tremendous advantage. We'll introduce fundamental concepts and explore what happens to communication and collaboration when we apply improv tools and frameworks in an intentional way. We’ll also discuss how improv habits of mind can help us reframe problems productively on the fly, and what improv (and other forms play) have to do with culture-building.

Brett Hurt: CEO & co-founder, data.world

Julia Cheek: CEO & founder, Everly Health

Omair Tariq: CEO & founder, Cart.com

Moderated by Eugene Sepulveda, CEO & co-founder, Culturati

This illustrious panel of entrepreneurs will discuss pioneering strategies and insights, sharing their unique experiences and approaches to cultivating a vibrant and innovative organizational culture.

Julian B. Muñoz: Asst. Prof Dept of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin; theoretical astrophysicist

Julian Muñoz is a theoretical astrophysicist, working at the interface of cosmology and astronomy. His best-known work is on 21-cm cosmology and dark matter. He will guide our experience of the total solar eclipse beginning with visuals.