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CPO100 is a confidential space where leaders tackle shared challenges, collaborate, and
co-create innovative solutions.
Virtual Sessions
Mar 26, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Masterclass
Anxiety at Work: Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, and Handle Uncertainty
Workplace anxiety is at an all-time high, but as a leader, you have the power to foster resilience and psychological safety. Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick present a practical, eight-step framework for helping teams navigate uncertainty, beat perfectionism, and build confidence. With insights from top organizations, this book is an essential guide for HR leaders and managers seeking to reduce stress and cultivate a high-performing, calm, and connected workforce.
Apr 16, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
LearningLab
The Evolution of the CPO: From HR Function Leader to C-Suite Strategist
The role of the CPO has transformed from HR leader to strategic business architect. In this discussion, we’ll explore how to transition from a function-focused HR leader to a business leader first, driving company-wide transformation, shaping organizational strategy, and proving the ROI of people investments.
Apr 30, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Masterclass
What’s Next for HR and How to Respond
As the business landscape shifts, CPOs face four major HR inflection points. Dave Ulrich outlines how HR must expand stakeholder value, embrace a holistic human capability agenda, upskill the function, and harness AI for impact—equipping CPOs to lead transformation and deliver strategic business value.
May 14, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
LearningLab
The Skills & Capabilities That Define the CPO of Tomorrow
Success as a modern CPO starts with thinking like a business leader first. In this session, explore how to master AI fluency, partner with the CIO, treat culture as strategy, and lead transformation while influencing across the boardroom, workforce, and investor community.
May 30, 2025
3:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Masterclass
Never Lead Alone: 10 Shifts from Leadership to Teamship
In today’s business world, leaders can no longer succeed in isolation—they must embrace the power of teamship. Keith Ferrazzi unveils 10 critical shifts that separate high-performing teams from the rest, from co-elevation behaviors to next-gen collaboration methods. This book serves as a step-by-step roadmap for leaders who want to move beyond hierarchy and cultivate a culture of shared accountability, agility, and exponential impact.
Jun 11, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
LearningLab
The CPO’s Legacy: Defining Impact & Preparing for What’s Next
Your legacy as a Chief People Officer isn’t just about the policies you implement—it’s about the long-term transformation you drive. In this session, we’ll explore how CPOs can shape their lasting impact, develop future HR leaders, and position themselves for board roles, CEO opportunities, or other influential positions beyond HR.
Jul 2, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Masterclass
Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen
The best leaders don’t just react to change—they anticipate it. Rita McGrath introduces a powerful approach to identifying strategic inflection points before they disrupt industries. With case studies from companies that thrived (Amazon, Netflix) and failed (Blockbuster, Toys R Us), this book provides leaders with the tools to recognize hidden signals, make bold decisions, and capitalize on change before it’s too late.
Jul 16, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Masterclass
Community of Leaders: What It Takes to Drive Strategy, Culture, and Change
Explore how to build stronger leadership communities that accelerate transformation, drive performance, and deliver lasting business impact. Attendees will learn practical strategies to foster cultures of trust, accountability, and collaboration, while identifying opportunities to strengthen leadership behaviors and create environments where leaders work together to achieve shared goals.
Jul 30, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Masterclass
How to Work with (Almost) Anyone
Your work relationships define your success—but most of us leave them to chance. Michael Bungay Stanier reveals a proven framework for building better working relationships, based on just one powerful conversation and five essential questions. Whether managing up, down, or across, this book equips leaders with practical techniques to strengthen collaboration, resolve tension, and create meaningful connections at work.
Sep 10, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
LearningLab
AI and the CPO: Balancing the Power of Technology with the Human Touch
AI is revolutionizing HR, but as a CPO, you must ensure that technology enhances—rather than replaces—the human connections that define great workplaces. This session will help you navigate the balance between AI-driven efficiency and the need for ethical, human-centered leadership, ensuring that AI works for people, not against them.
Sep 24, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Masterclass
Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company
Growth isn’t accidental—it follows a predictable learning curve. Whitney Johnson introduces the S Curve of Learning, showing leaders how to intentionally navigate career and organizational growth. Whether you're starting a new challenge, scaling your impact, or preparing for reinvention, this book provides a blueprint for continuous development and disruption, making it a must-read for leaders who want to stay ahead in an unpredictable world.
Oct 15, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
LearningLab
From Personal Why to Enterprise Why: Turning Purpose into Performance
The real power of purpose is in accelerating the performance of your people; in an era of disruption and distrust, purpose unites and connects. Drawing on experience from multiple organisations, and data from randomised control trials, in this session Tim Munden will share with leaders how to connect personal purpose to organisational ambition—so people feel meaning and perform more highly, teams unlock energy, and the business delivers results. We’ll explain how to harness the “why” of your people through processes and practices so that purpose becomes a system: attracting, retaining and developing talent, building teams, deepening inclusion, shaping culture, and accelerating performance. We’ll explore how purpose plays a core part of the “inner game” of leadership, fundamental to leadership in the 21st Century.
Oct 29, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Masterclass
Practical Approaches for Supporting Teams and Finding Opportunities Amid Unpredictability
The only certainty in business is uncertainty—so how do you prepare for the unknown? Sanyin Siang challenges leaders to rethink traditional planning and instead focus on horizon-scanning, sensemaking, and organizational agility. This book is a must-read for leaders navigating constant disruption, providing practical tools to build adaptable teams, listen to diverse perspectives, and stay ahead of industry shifts.
Nov 12, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
LearningLab
CPOs as Architects of Organizational Culture & Talent Strategy
Culture isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a business imperative. In this session, we’ll uncover how CPOs can craft a high-impact people strategy, build an agile workforce, and lead culture transformation efforts that drive both employee engagement and business success.
Dec 10, 2025
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
LearningLab
Becoming a Boardroom Star: Strategies to Enhance Credibility and Influence
Earning a seat at the table is one thing—owning your space in the boardroom is another. In this session, we’ll discuss how CPOs can enhance their credibility, communicate HR’s strategic value in a way that resonates with CEOs and CFOs, and strengthen their presence as key business decision-makers.
Jan 28, 2026
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
LearningLab
CPO to CEO: How HR Executives are Carving a Path to the Top
As a Chief People Officer, you already shape business strategy, influence executive decision-making, and drive workforce transformation—so why not take the next step? This session will explore how HR leaders can position themselves as CEO candidates, develop the commercial acumen needed for enterprise leadership, and transition from talent strategist to business visionary.
In-person Sessions:
CPO Connect Roundtables
Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 21, 2026
Roundtable
Hosted at Mastercard HQ
New York City, NY
Feb 24, 2026
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Feb 25, 2026
Roundtable
Hosted at IBM NYC Office
NYC, NY
Apr 6, 2026
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Apr 7, 2026
Roundtable
Hosted at Workday HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Jun 9, 2026
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Jun 10, 2026
Roundtable
Hosted at L'Oréal USA HQ
NYC, NY
Sep 8, 2026
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Sep 9, 2026
Roundtable
Hosted at Nestlé HQ
Vevey, Switzerland
World-class members
How it works
CPO Connect Roundtables
Your exclusive, in-person opportunity to meet at the HQs of leading global brands, tackle your top priorities, and connect with peers to network, benchmark, and learn in a private, tailored setting.
CPO LearningLabs
Your monthly space to tackle real challenges, gain fresh insights, and walk away with actionable solutions—all alongside fellow Chief People Officers.
Masterclasses
Learn from the world’s top thought leaders and experts shaping the future of work—delivering cutting-edge strategies you can apply immediately.
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Atlas Copilot
Your AI-powered HR assistant, delivering instant answers, real-time employment law insights, and on-demand access to 50,000+ research pages, 10,000+ hours of content, and upcoming CPO100 events.
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