On Stage
A packed house at an invite-only executive summit.
Chris on stage at the SHRM Executive Network Visionaries Summit, one stop among the executive summits and industry conferences where he's a regular voice.
From executive summits to packed international audiences, Chris brings a business-first lens to the future of work, across industries, functions, and formats.
Keynotes · Panels · Fireside Chats
Chris' sessions are built to be practical: frameworks and tools an audience can put to work Monday morning. And every engagement includes access to The Green Room, a free app he built for attendees that turns a one-time keynote into an ongoing community.
The room asks and upvotes questions during the talk; Chris answers the ones that matter most, live on stage.
Attendees from current and past sessions share ideas, wins, and questions — and keep learning from each other long after the room clears.
The slides, the AI tools Chris has built, and the tools he uses and recommends — made available to every audience to take with them.
It's a differentiator the audience remembers: they leave with something they keep, and a community they can come back to.
AI is one part of it. The bigger throughline is how strategy, leadership, human capital, culture, operations, and technology come together into one enterprise system, and how that shows up in margin.
Integrating strategy, leadership, human capital, culture, operations, and AI into one enterprise system — then orchestrating it to show up in margin. Not cutting capacity, but conducting it.
Why culture is a competitive advantage, not a soft skill, and how to build one that shows up in retention, productivity, and the bottom line.
Turning HR into a driver of margin, not a cost center: practical frameworks for modernizing the function without losing the people side.
Why a good story is more memorable than the mechanics behind it, and how that principle makes data actionable, and leaders more persuasive, in the C-suite.
How AI is reshaping recruiting, performance management, and workforce strategy, and what business leaders need to get ahead of it.
What it takes to lead people, culture, and change when technology is rewriting the rules of the function every quarter.
Why candidate experience and hiring velocity aren't competing goals, they're the same goal, and the practical fixes that improve both at once.
Turning L&D from a checkbox of courses into a genuine learning culture that builds high-performing teams, and the steps that make the function pay for itself.
What it takes to run HR as one function across regions and cultures, not a patchwork of local teams, and how to build the team that can pull it off.
Every keynote is built to leave the room with more than a good feeling: practical frameworks, resources, and tools attendees can put to work the next morning.
Down-to-earth, insightful, and informative, delivered with energy, humor, and authenticity. It's a mix of theory and pragmatism, grounded in real operating experience, not corporate-speak. High-energy and enthusiastic from open to close. Fair warning: he's been known to get a room up and dancing mid-session.
Chris on stage at the SHRM Executive Network Visionaries Summit, one stop among the executive summits and industry conferences where he's a regular voice.
From SHRM's premier U.S. summits to a packed ballroom audience in India, Chris speaks to audiences who are rethinking what HR, AI, and enterprise leadership look like next.
Beyond keynotes, Chris is a regular voice in panel discussions and fireside chats alongside other executive leaders, bringing the same enterprise-first perspective to open dialogue as he does on stage.
For speaking engagements, panels, or fireside chats, reach out directly. No speakers bureau required.