At some point in your career, a leader has looked at you and said some version of this: "I think we need to restructure." Or maybe it was "I need to move this person out" or "we need to add headcount." And you had a choice in that moment. Do you start solving for what they asked, or do you slow down long enough to figure out what's actually going on?
The best HR Business Partners know that the request a leader brings you is not always the real problem. And learning to tell the difference is what separates an HRBP who executes from one who advises.

In this session, Elle Eddings draws on more than a decade of partnering with leaders across high-growth tech organizations to share a practical, four-part diagnostic framework that you can use starting in your very next leader conversation. No theory. No textbook frameworks that fall apart in the real world. Just a sharper way of thinking about what's actually happening in your organization and what to do about it.

In this session, you Will Learn
1. How to get underneath a leader's initial request and identify the business problem that actually needs solving
2. How to read organizational signals across four key areas: Structure, Decisions, People, and Business, so you can ask better questions and get to the right answer faster
3. How to bring leaders a clear point of view, challenge their thinking when the evidence points somewhere different, and still walk away aligned on a path forward