Elevate NRV is a pivotal event aimed at empowering local human resource professionals of all experience levels with insights from thought leaders in talent recruitment and retention. This dynamic event promises to showcase innovative recruitment strategies and cutting-edge retention practices, guiding businesses of all sizes toward success in today’s competitive landscape.
Join leaders from Montgomery County’s Employee Engagement Committee (EEC) as they share the evolution of an employee-driven initiative designed to bring people together across departments and locations. Through creative programs and engagement opportunities, the committee has helped cultivate camaraderie, improve employee satisfaction, and support retention efforts. Learn how a simple idea became a key contributor to organizational culture and success.
Through an engaging keynote address, enlightening panel discussions, and interactive breakout sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to:
Speaker: Stephanie Byers, Internships VA
Internships are one of the highest-ROI recruitment strategies available, but turning interns into long-term employees requires intentional planning and investment. This session will explore strategies for recruiting the right interns, providing meaningful work, delivering effective onboarding and supervision, and fostering growth through mentorship and professional development. Attendees will learn how evaluations and stay conversations can strengthen engagement, how to maintain connections after the internship ends, and how to measure program success. Discover how intentional internship design can create a sustainable pipeline of future employees and deliver long-term organizational value.
Speaker: Wendy Glass, President and Founder, Ignite Leadership + HR Group
Summary: Learn how to use workforce data and key talent metrics to anticipate future staffing needs and identify potential workforce gaps. This workshop will explore how trends such as turnover, retirements, and staffing demands can inform proactive recruitment, retention, and succession planning strategies. Attendees will learn how to analyze workforce metrics to identify current and future talent needs, recognize workforce gaps and risks that may impact organizational performance, and develop data-informed recruitment and retention strategies that support long-term workforce goals.
Speaker: Katie Beach, Mojo Leadership Group
Summary: Change is a constant in today’s workplace. This workshop will equip attendees with a foundational understanding of the stages of change, and practical techniques that leaders and managers can use to successfully navigate each stage. Participants will also explore the critical connection between change management and talent strategy, including its impact on engagement, trust, culture, retention, and recruitment.
Speaker: Wendy Glass, President and Founder, Ignite Leadership + HR Group
Summary: Too often, HR is treated as an administrative or support function rather than a Strategic Business Partner. This session teaches HR professionals how to reposition their work using the same language, data, and rigor that Finance, Sales, and Operations already use to earn a seat at the leadership table, shifting HR’s role from transactional to strategic. Attendees will learn how to identify the specific habits and communication patterns that keep HR transactional, and what it takes to operate as a true Strategic Business Partner instead. They will also learn how to translate HR initiatives into the financial and operational language leadership already responds to, including cost, risk, productivity, and revenue impact. Through a practical application exercise, participants will apply a repositioning framework to a current HR initiative and identify the specific forum or relationship where that reframed case can help HR earn a seat as a Strategic Business Partner.
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