HR teams today face an impossible challenge: endless competing priorities, mounting pressure from AI and organizational change, and a persistent struggle to demonstrate value. In this candid, experience-driven session, Manny Ocasio, Chief People Officer of Vitalant, shares how adopting an Objectives and Key Results (OKR) approach helped transform HR into a focused delivery engine. Beyond the framework itself, Manny will share key lessons learned, how the team evolved its approach by adopting complementary tools and practices to accelerate impact, and why clearly communicating strategic intent is critical to gaining alignment and momentum. In just one year, this approach enabled the team to prioritize what matters most, strengthen organizational visibility, and demonstrate measurable impact—all while navigating a complex ERP implementation. You'll learn how a simple but disciplined framework can help HR clarify priorities, connect work to outcomes, and communicate value more effectively across the organization. Whether you're leading a technology transformation, elevating HR's influence, or looking for a practical methodology to help your team focus and deliver, this session offers an adaptable model grounded in real-world experience and results.
In this session, you will:
- Hear how Vitalant's HR team used OKRs to create focus and demonstrate impact while navigating significant organizational change.
- Examine the practical lessons, tools, and practices that helped accelerate execution beyond the framework itself.
- Consider how greater clarity of intent and progress can strengthen alignment, visibility, and credibility across the organization.
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Manny Ocasio, EVP, Chief People Officer, Vitalant |