Event invitations are typically sent to all alumni as Google calendar invitations from hello@peopleleaderaccelerator.com and are hosted on Zoom.
If you missed an invitation or would like it to be resent, please email hello@peopleleaderaccelerator.com. Thank you!!
People GPT with Q Hamirani
Accelerate your understanding of Artificial Intelligence tools for HR professionals, with PLA alum Q Hamirani
Career Exploration & Job Search w/Rachel Serwetz
Particularly in today's environment, with so many HR tech leaders looking for a new role...
We are very pleased to partner with Rachel Serwetz, CEO & Founder of Woken. Rachel is an expert on guiding professionals to clarify their ideal career path through learning & reflection. From there, she helps clients to select upskilling opportunities, improve their personal branding materials, and pursue an efficient, strategic, job search to land a role they will thrive in.
Design and Pitch L&D on a Budget - with Lucy Georgiades (Elevate Leadership)
In today's economic environment, L&D offerings have been tightened by many employers. We will speak with Lucy Georgiades, cofounder of Elevate Leadership (a beloved vendor of many PLA alumni), about what L&D offerings are most likely to be critical to the success of early/mid-stage venture-backed technology companies, how to estimate anticipated ROI, how best to resource these critical L&D offerings (internal vs. vendor support), and how to position requests of time or budget with your CEO or CFO. Learn more about Lucy and Elevate Leadership here:
Building confidence through agency: Taking control of your HR career - with Melanie Naranjo
Many HR professionals wrestle with both personal feelings of imposter syndrome as well as power & status imbalances in the workplace. (How hard should you REALLY push back on your CEO?) During this PLA workshop, we will speak with Melanie Naranjo, VP of People of Ethena (an HR tech startup), about how to overcome these challenges successfully. As a pre-listen, be sure to check out her appearance on the Modern People Leader podcast here: https://www.modernpeopleleader.com/137-handling-nos-from-your-ceo-reminding-fellow-execs-what-hr-is-optimizing-for-melanie-naranj/
Learn more about Melanie and follow her on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-naranjo/
Excel Workshop with Recalc Academy
Elevate your Excel skills with a private interactive workshop with long time friend of PLA, Recalc Academy founder Katie Fifer.
HR Transform Conference
The People Leader Accelerator community shows up in force for this conference at the Wynn in Las Vegas, which includes a unique collection of venture capital investors, People Tech founders, and progressive HR leaders of tech companies. We will have a private dinner for our alumni and a few select guests on Monday evening (3/11) from 7-9pm.
How to Build a Creativity Culture
In this 60-minute interactive workshop, “Born to Create” author (and PLA SME) Anne Jacoby will reinforce key themes in the book to ignite your creative mindset, develop your creative leadership, and activate a plan to build a creativity culture.
How to Elevate Your Professional Profile as an HR Leader
With our guest, Modern People Leader podcast host, Daniel Huerta!
Cohort Reunions
Reconnect with your cohort virtually. Dates and times will be announced throughout the month of November, hosted by a faculty member.
Goal Setting
Annual goal planning and OKR best practices, facilitated by Andrew Bartlow from Series B Consulting
HR Transform Conference
Many, many IRL meetup opportunities! And, come see PLA community members on stage!