The 9th edition of the HR Club National Conference: HR Change Champion reunited over 350 HR professionals, managers, directors and entrepreneurs. The event took place on the 23rd of October 2013, at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bucharest.

The participants had the opportunity to attend two keynote speeches presented by: Dave Ulrich - Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, author of over 200 articles and 25 books, ranked #1 most influential international thought leader in HR by HR Magazine and #23 in Thinkers 50 as a management thought leader and Tudor Havriliuc - Compensation & Benefits Director at the social networking website Facebook.com and a renowned HR professional with a vast working experience in multinational companies in the Silicon Valley.

The agenda of the Conference also included a Master Class presented by Dave Ulrich on the subject of “HR Tools for a Change Champion” and 3 parallel workshops: “Building a Successful Compensation and Benefits Approach for an Engineering Driven Company” - workshop held by Tudor Havriliuc, Compensation & Benefits Director, Facebook.com; “Becoming a Digital Enterprise: The Challenges for HR Strategy” - workshop held by Zsolt Szelecki, CEE Human Resource Consulting Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers; “Facing the Generation Challenges in Talent Management” - workshop held by Michael Geke, Partner and Head of People & Change, HR Management Consulting Unit, KPMG Germany.

The HR professionals who attended the event had access to another useful HR tool as the 4th edition of the HR Best Practices Manual was released during the Conference. The volume presents the most valued HR projects by the jury of 2013 HR Club Awards Gala, the only Romanian event that recognizes and awards excellence in the HR field of work.

The HR Change Champion Conference also hosted an expo area, where the participants had the chance to find out from HR service providers about new programs and tools they can use to develop successful projects in their companies. The 11 exhibitors presenting their services were Aerotravel, APT Group, Ascendis, Catalyst Solutions, EVOLUTIV Consultants Network, Max Relax, Noble Manhattan Coaching, Prior Media Group, RILVAN Moving & Relocations, Romanian Software, UCMS Group Romania.

The HR Club National Conference is the most important human resources event of the year. This year’s Conference was about CHANGE. The change for the better, the change we want, we generate and we shape, the change that turns into sustainable results. This fall, at the HR Change Champion Conference top speakers discussed about the future of HR, about how to prepare and manage the evolution towards “the next step” in HR and how to become change champions.

HR Club thanks all of its partners for suporting this event: Annual Partner: Trend Consult, Content Partners: Daedalus Millward Brown and PeliFilip, Main Partner of the Event: Regina Maria, Event Partners: BCR Pensii, Coca Cola HBC Romania, MaxRelax and Tuborg, Annual Media Partners: Business Review, HR Manager and Manager Express, Event Media Partners: Biz, PortalHR, Money.ro and Ziare.com.

Additional details about the HR Change Champion Conference are available on HR Club’s website.

HR Club is the association of human resources professionals in Romania. Founded in 2004, HR Club’s mission is to encourage the human resources development by supporting and promoting the best practices in the field.

HR Club currently has over 450 members representing about 300 multinational and Romanian companies with 250,000 employees coming from all industries and the services sector. HR Club is a member of the European Association for People Management (EAPM) and of the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA).

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