Business leaders are accountable for creating profitability, productivity, business impact, as well as lasting client relationships – this pursuit is a daily objective. What if you, as an HR leader, could show how strategically developing and engaging people can become a business driver that goes beyond a simple HR initiative? The best workplaces lean into Peter Drucker’s beloved quote, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Business leaders often need help in seeing how to achieve this. This is where you come in, armed with productive, useful data. In this session, you’ll see research that shows how qualitative and quantitative business outcomes improve when ”people and culture work” is pursued in a smart, strategic, purposeful way. Take this information back to your leaders and be better equipped to gain buy-in and support to advance more people and culture-building initiatives at your workplace and demonstrate that it’s well worth the hours and dollars invested! Learning Objectives: Discover key business metrics that can be improved by strategic people and culture initiatives; Calculate (with a formula) the business cost of employee disengagement; Gain support and buy-in for building stronger business results through research-proven people and culture work.