The Influence Play: Getting Leaders to Champion Employee Engagement
Your leaders aren't ignoring engagement — they just don't see it as their problem. And that disconnect is costing more than most organizations realize.
Turnover, burnout, quiet exits, and declining productivity, aren't people problems — they're business problems, and they compound fast when engagement gets left off the leadership agenda. According to Korn Ferry, U.S. businesses lose an estimated $154 billion annually to stress-related absenteeism alone. And as external mobility slows, internal advancement has become the primary pathway for career growth, making how leaders show up for their people more consequential than ever.
The good news is when leaders understand engagement as a strategic lever, not an HR checkbox, everything changes. In this session, we'll provide you with the playbook to make that shift happen.
You'll walk away with the ability to:
- Frame employee engagement as a strategic business issue, connecting it directly to productivity, retention, internal mobility, and organizational performance.
- Translate engagement signals into leadership-relevant metrics, and position engagement as an early warning system for turnover, burnout, absenteeism, and declining team health.
- Identify the leadership behaviors and organizational practices that drive engagement, from forward-looking performance management to stretch work and recognition of diverse contributions.
- Apply influence strategies that increase leader ownership of engagement and align engagement practices with broader enterprise talent and workforce capability goals.
