HR Executives Retreat
Join fellow HR executives for a candid, executive-level retreat focused on building a future-ready workforce-embedding AI, continuous learning, and adaptability into talent strategies to drive lasting organizational impact.
Please login or sign up for a UWEBC Member Account to register for or join this event.
Description
UWEBC is convening an exclusive HR Executive Session focused on building a future-ready workforce for leaders navigating the intersection of AI, rapid skill evolution, and organizational transformation.
The session will be hosted by Amy Best, CHRO of Alliant Energy, alongside Doug Barton of UW E-Business Consortium, who will open the day by framing the accelerating convergence of AI adoption, skills velocity, and the growing need for organizational adaptability.
Amy will share how Alliant Energy is approaching workforce transformation as a strategic imperative—redefining how talent is developed, deployed, and empowered.
This is a practitioner-led discussion where HR executives will exchange real-world strategies, challenges, and insights.
The session will conclude with a working synthesis, where participants will identify concrete commitments to take back to their organizations—ensuring ideas translate into action.
This is a working, discussion-based session designed for HR leaders who are actively shaping the future of work, workforce capability, and organizational resilience.
This is a working, discussion-based session designed for HR leaders who are actively shaping the future of work, workforce capability, and organizational resilience.
Key Learning Outcomes
Together we expect to challenge ourselves to consider how their organizations can:
- Build AI fluency at scale beyond pilot programs
- Shift from static roles to dynamic, skills-based talent models
- Reframe AI as a tool for employee empowerment amid declining engagement
- Sustain culture and connection during periods of continuous transformation
- Equip managers to act as “supermanagers”—driving innovation, not just execution
Audience
HR Executives
Agenda
|
Time |
Session |
|
9:00 – 9:45 AM |
Welcome & Scene-Setting – Doug Barton |
|
9:45 – 10:15 AM |
Kickoff: Alliant Energy’s workforce transformation journey - Amy Best, CHRO, Alliant Energy |
|
10:15 – 10:30 AM |
Networking Break |
|
10:30 – 12:00 PM |
Practitioner Discussion: Share What’s Working |
|
12:00 – 1:00 PM |
Working Lunch, Synthesis & Commitments |
Welcome & Scene-Setting
Host welcome; Doug Barton, UWEBC
Framing: convergence of AI adoption, skills velocity, and organizational adaptability
Icebreaker: “What is the single biggest workforce capability gap you’re racing to close?”
Kickoff: Alliant Energy’s workforce transformation journey
Amy Best, CHRO, Alliant Energy
Practitioner Discussion: Share What’s Working
- Building AI fluency at scale beyond pilots; AI champions and SHRM’s AI+HI framework
- From static roles to dynamic talent models; Bersin’s “dynamic work design” approach
- Employee experience crisis: Gallup engagement at 10-year low; reframing AI as empowerment
- Sustaining culture through transformation; Gartner’s culture atrophy research
- The “supermanager” role: managers as innovation catalysts, not just supervisors
- Measuring workforce adaptability: cross-skill application, ambiguity navigation, skill interest
Working Lunch & Synthesis (12:30–1:00)
“One commitment” exercise: each participant shares one action to take back
Open networking