Perspectives: The Make-or-Break Summer

July 8, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET

How HR Leaders Turn the Year’s Most Overlooked Season Into a Strategic Advantage

The next three years of your organization’s performance will be shaped by what you do this summer.

Gartner predicts 39% of the workforce will experience disruption in the next two to five years, and 92% of CHROs anticipate AI will be further integrated into the workforce this year alone. Yet most organizations will approach summer like they always have: treating it as lost time rather than the strategic opportunity it actually is.

Smart HR leaders know that what happens between now and September will define their people strategy for years to come. The ones paying attention know this summer is different, and they’re using it with intention. Come ready to think differently and leave with one action you can take Monday morning.

Join us to:

• Reclaim the summer calendar to convert uncontested time into your biggest strategic advantage.
• Lead the AI-and-people conversation now, before anxiety fills the silence for you.
• Protect your managers from burnout since Q4 performance is decided in July, not September.
• Design your team’s summer rhythm intentionally as even small signals shape your culture permanently.
• Audit three roles for AI impact today, because evolution beats elimination every time.

Credits

Bonus for our live attendees… tune in for 1 HRCI and 1 SHRM credit!

Panelists – TBA!

Hema Crockett, she/her

Co-Founder, Gig Talent

Jackie Dube, she/her

SVP of People Operations