Perspectives: Walking the Line
How HR Leaders Thrive in the Messy Middle
HR professionals occupy the most challenging position in any organization: caught between competing demands, conflicting priorities, and impossible expectations. You’re simultaneously advocating for employees while executing executive directives, fostering caring culture while driving performance metrics, and managing feuding managers while maintaining your own well-being. From RTO mandates versus flexibility requests to budget constraints versus merit increase demands, you’re constantly walking a tightrope that few others understand.
But here’s what most people miss: being in the middle isn’t just a burden: it’s your superpower. Your unique vantage point provides unparalleled business insight, relationship capital, and strategic influence. This webinar reveals how top HR professionals transform the messy middle from a source of burnout into a platform for impact. You’ll learn proven frameworks for building executive sponsorship, developing manager relationships, and creating employee voice, all while establishing the boundaries and systems that protect your capacity to lead strategically rather than just fight fires.
In this session, we will:
- Identify where you’re losing strategic capacity so you can reclaim time for proactive leadership instead of constant firefighting
- Gain active executive partnership and advocacy that supports your initiatives rather than just adding to your demands
- Navigate difficult conversations and unfavorable news while maintaining trust and credibility across all stakeholder groups
- Create protected space for strategic thinking and planning that doesn’t disappear when the next crisis emerges
- Amplify your organizational influence through your unique connector role while safeguarding your own well-being and development
Credits
Bonus for our live attendees… tune in for 1 HRCI and 1 SHRM credit!
Panelists
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Vice President, People + Culture,
livingHR, Inc.
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Founder,
Rachel Boehm Coaching & Consulting, LLC
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Principal Human Resources Business Partner,
Hologic, Inc.
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Vice President of Talent Optimization,
The Predictive Index
Hema Crockett, she/her
Co-Founder, Gig Talent
Jackie Dube, she/her
SVP of People Operations
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