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Our Upcoming Events
Our Upcoming Events
Partner Events
Our partners are pros at offering events that deliver value and impact for people-first leaders like you. Grab your seat and gear up for serious insights.
March 12, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET
According to research done by Fuel50, 74% of businesses admit that a lack of skills visibility is impeding their ability to hit business objectives. Without knowing what skills you need in your business, and what skills you have, your ability to build meaningful growth and development opportunities in your organization is almost non-existent. The result? Wasted potential, stalled innovation, and a widening gap between the workforce you have and the capabilities you need.
Join us for this powerful and eye-opening webcast as we expose the hidden cost of skill gaps and, more importantly, how Talent, HR, and L&D leaders can take immediate action.
March 20, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET
What does it take to live and lead with integrity, authenticity, and meaning, especially in today’s complex world? How do leaders blend personal purpose with professional impact to deliver results and leave a lasting legacy?
Join us for a powerful, thought-provoking fireside chat with Laysha Ward, one of the nation’s top female C-suite executives and author of the upcoming book Lead Like You Mean It: Lessons on Integrity and Purpose from the C-Suite. In this exclusive live session, Laysha will share leadership lessons that shaped her career, from her early days on the sales floor to the Fortune 50 boardroom, while offering actionable insights on how to lead with intention, courage, and connection.
March 27, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET
Appreciation and recognition are sometimes used interchangeably, but appreciation is both more complicated and more powerful. Recognition is thanking someone for an action they performed, yet appreciation is about showing gratitude for who they are as a whole person. The Haas School of business found recognition increases effectiveness and productivity by 23%, whereas appreciation drives a 43% increase. Therefore, while they are both important and powerful, understanding how to create a culture of appreciation is a game changer for individual managers and the organization.
Celebrating the 2nd Annual PeopleForward IMPACT Awards
November 2023 marked the second annual PeopleForward IMPACT Awards, where winners were celebrated through the medium PFN knows best: podcasting. Each of the five award winners were interviewed and featured in a special episode of FRINGE, a PFN original podcast that serves as the network’s homebase show, the week of November 13th, 2023.
Each of the five award winners received the Manny Impact Award, which is named after the happy-go-lucky character you see in the PeopleForward Network logo. Manny represents meaningful work, people-forward leadership, and celebrates the best of what humanity has to offer.
Listen to the Award Spotlight episodes on FRINGE
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