8:30 am Registration & Networking
8:55 am What it Takes to Make a LEAP a Reality
9:00 am Chairs Opening Remarks
9:10 am Panel: Future of Construction Strategy Panel
Synopsis
This session will equip you with the tools you need to advance your recruitment, retainment, upskilling and more. Leave with immediately actionable insights on how Contractors are are engaging with their workforce and increasing efficiency for the future
9:50 am Action:How are you going to prepare for the future needs of your organization?
Synopsis
Discuss in your round tables ways that you can take these insights back to your own organization such as:
- Implementing flexible schedules where possible
- Highlighting progression opportunities for our staff
- Attracting the next generation of hourly workers
- Creative recruitment marketing strategy Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
9:50 am Discover:The BuilderFax Wallet is the construction professional’s ultimate career tool
Synopsis
- Capture your certifications, training cards, licenses, memberships, and more in your BuilderFax Wallet – no more carrying around (or losing) your credentials. With full control, you can easily share your credentials with employers and stand out from the rest.
10:00 am Develop:What More Can we Learn From HR Leaders Preparing for the Future of Work?
10:30 am Networking & Refreshment Break
Tapping into Hidden Workforces; Unlocking Pipeline
10:50 am Discover: Utilizing an Existing Reliable Pipeline while Enhancing Diversity in the Workforce
Synopsis
- How can we tap into a hidden but reliable workforce while practicing DEI?
- Create a mutually beneficial relationship with your local corrections facility and secure an able and reliable workforce
- How Lexicon have partnered with ADC to create a ‘Work Release Program’ that hires inmates into their shops, allowing them to have a reliable workforce and create opportunities for the local community
11:10 am Discover: Creating Mutually Beneficial Relationships to Build Pipeline
Synopsis
- How can we create a stable pipeline of talent for the future of the organization?
- Create an ecosystem network where the local community helps each other to develop young talent
- How McGuire & Hester have developed a ‘community advisory panel’ that allows the company to work with the local community to build relevant skills and create opportunities for the local community
11:30 am Develop:How do we identify relevant skill transfer to find other hidden talent pools?
Synopsis
With significant talent shortage how can we unlock new talent pools to increase the amount of desirable candidates for the future? How can we ensure that these pools have early exposure to construction or transferable skills?
11:50 am Action:What other talent pools are relevant platforms? to your organization?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
Practicing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Construction
10:50 am Discover:What is DEI? Separating the Impact VS the Concept
Synopsis
- How can we break the negative rhetoric around DEI and help people to understand what the concept looks like in practice?
- Have clarity on the DEI framework and your organizations execution of it
- How McCownGordon Construction are analyzing their organization thinks and acts about DE&I and paying attention to unintentional habits that may perpetuate negative rhetoric such as language on policies etc.,
11:10 am Discover: Building Belonging for Women in Construction
Synopsis
- How can we help women feel like they belong in the construction industry?
- Create support networks, safe spaces and allyship through the use of ERGs
- How Southland Industries have created their first ERG for women in construction, built out an internal marketing strategy, defined allyship and are finding success and increasing engagement while also utilizing it as a model for future ERGs
11:30 am Develop:: How are you going to increase opportunities for minority workforces in construction?
Synopsis
With 80% of construction jobs being held by men, and women representing just 3% of the workforce on site, how can we fill roles by helping women to work in construction? How can we see potential in women to fill roles that were previously restricted and reserved for men?
11:50 am Action:How are you going to weave DE&I into the fabric of your organization?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
Leveraging Technology for Operational Efficiency
10:50 am Discover: Leveraging AI tools for Effective Upskilling
Synopsis
- How can we steepen the upskilling curve while enabling resources to be nimble and adaptable?
- Utilize new technologies that reduce time to create and edit upskilling resources
- How Smith Douglas Homes are leveraging AI to create video resources for both technical and soft skill upskilling, that has lead to an increase in engagement with training
11:10 am Develop: What else can technology help the human resources department with?
Synopsis
While the construction sector has been historically slow to integrate and adopt digital technologies, E&C companies need to utilize digital technologies to expand business opportunities and boost profits by reducing costs in the long run and enhancing project execution.
11:30 am Action:Where can technology streamline a function of your HR organization?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
Discuss in your round tables ways that you can take what you have learned back to your organizations by asking questions such as:
- How can we use technology to improve people processes.
- How can we use AI and new digital platforms to connect a dispersed workforce, speed up talent acquisition and improve people processes?
- How can we use people analytics to identify training and skills gaps?
- How can we use our CRM/HRIS/ATS to its full potential and increase communication across different platforms
12:10 pm Networking Lunch
1:10 pm Speed Learning
Synopsis
In this quick-fire session, each table will be hosted by an Manufacturing HR leader who will share the secrets of their most high-impact leap; you then get the opportunity to question the host before moving on to your next table
Implementing AI
to Boost Employee
Engagement &
Success
Jennifer Duarte
Senior Director of Human
Resources
Erickson Hall
Communicating with
Your Workforce
Katie Cassidy
Human Resources Business
Partner
Simon
Conducting Hiring
Manager Training
Michelle Weakley
Manager of Recruitment
Performance Contracting
Group
Putting Emphasis on Belonging as a
Byproduct of DE&I
Kayla Montgomery
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Manager
Associated General
Contractors of California
Utilizing Small Group Conversation
Practises to Address
DEI Inequities in
Recruiting and
Retention
Layle Ellis
Director of Community
Relations & Inclusion
Manhattan Construction
Group
