BONUS: Arianna Huffington and Donna Morris on How Walmart is Helping its Associates Achieve Healthier Habits

Digital HR Leaders with David Green

The guests on this week’s special bonus episode are Arianna Huffington, CEO and Founder of Thrive Global and Donna Morris, Chief People Officer at Walmart. In our conversation, we discuss how the pandemic has thrust the human resources function centre stage, and how HR has thrived during this difficult time in organisations where the function is well led, has strong senior stakeholder equity, has prioritised employee wellbeing and has robust capability in people analytics. If anything, this has raised expectations of Chief People Officers even further, can they and the functions they lead evolve at the pace necessary to deliver on the expectations of Leaders and the workforce?

In our conversation, Arianna, Donna and I discuss:

• How the role of the Chief People Officer has changed since the beginning of the pandemic
• What the impact of these increased expectations have had on Chief People Officers themselves
• The lessons in workforce agility Walmart has learned from hiring over 500,000 associates so far in the crisis and how they will carry these learnings forward
• How to adopt the mindset to find opportunity in ambiguity and why it is important that Leaders set the tone
• What HR can do in 2021 and beyond, to capture more value for the business

This episode is a must listen for anyone interested or involved in HR and how it can create value for the organisation and protect the health of its workforce. So that is Business Leaders, Chief People Officers and anyone in an Organisational Health, Employee Experience, People Analytics or HR Business Partner role.

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