Meetings of the HR Executive Forum provide members an opportunity to hear from local and and national speakers on topics that are timely and thought provoking. A sampling of our speakers from the past include:

2021-22 Programming Year

• January 2022 - Leadership Activism: The Inside Story
• November 2021 - Agility in the Workplace
• October 2021 - Systems Thinking
• September 2021 - HR Leadership and Gray Area Thinking

• May 2021 - Short Talks on Big Ideas in HR - The Next Evolution for People, Profit and our Planet 
• March 2021 - People and Profit: The Critical Partnership between Finance, Business, and HR Leadership
• January 2021 - Addressing Racial and Health Equity in Healthcare at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
• November 2020 - Don't Be a Zooming Zombie: Bring Life to Your Virtual World
• October 2020 - The Global Influence on Our Local Organizations
• September 2020 - A Futurist’s Predictions on the Triple Bottom Line

2019-20 Programming Year

• August 2020 - HR and Humans in the Workplace - Adjusting to a Plateful of New Normal
  
• May 2020 - Virtual Event: Insights on Diversity and Inclusion featuring Leonard Posey, Senior Associate, Inclusive Leadership Practice, Lee Hecht Harrison
• April 2020 - Live Virtual Event: Leading Through Challenging Times
• March 2020 - Setting Your Sights on Purposefully Aligning Your Strategy and Culture featuring Michael Stewart - SOLD OUT
• January 2020 - Gaining a New Perspective: Human-Centered Design for HR featuring Jackie Colburn of SPRINT!
• November 2019: Focusing on Internal and External Customer Experience Samantha Hanson, Karl Thomas and Trudy Marshall from North Memorial Health
• October 2019: Communicating So You are Heard and Seen featuring Rena Sarigianopoulos and Jana Shortal
• September 2019: GROW Your View of Coaching featuring Alan Fine

2018-19 Programming Year

• May 2019: Shifting from Careers to Employee Experiences
• March 2019: New Rewards: Personal, Agile and Holistic
• January 2019: The Symphonic Suite
• November 2018: Earning It - Hard Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World Featuring Speaker Joann S. Lublin
• October 2018: AI and Robotics - Featuring Speaker Shandon Fowler: Founder and Principal of Four8 Insights
• September 2018: Deloitte Human Capital Trends - Featuring Speaker Dr. Gary Gerstner

2017-18 Programming Year

• May 2018: Bruce DeWitt, CEO and Lorri Anderson, Head of HR for Logic PD
• March 2018: OWN IT! Own Your Brilliance | Own Your Future - Deborah Galuk, PhD
• January 2018: Race, Racism and Health Inequity: What can we do about it? - Dr. Stephen C. Nelson
  
• November 2017: Purposeful Leadership - Paul Batz

• October 2016: Why Matters - Tom Forsythe
  
• January 2017: Storlietelling Workshop - Jean Storlie
• March 2017: The Trust Edge - David Horsager