Every HR team is being told to be "more data-driven." Few are told how and fewer still have a path from dashboards that describe the past to intelligence that anticipates the future.

This session starts at the foundation: what workplace intelligence really is (and isn't), why the organizations that build this muscle are making faster, better talent decisions and where most teams get stuck.

Zech Dahms (Achieve) is joined by Megan Bickle, a talent strategy leader who has built employee listening and people analytics capabilities inside companies like GE Digital, Western Digital, Dropbox, and Amplitude. Together they'll introduce a Workplace Intelligence Maturity Model, five stages organizations move through on the way from reactive, gut-feel decisions to true predictive foresight, with real practitioner stories of what advancing actually takes.

You'll walk away with: a working definition and business case you can bring to your leadership team, a maturity model to locate your organization today and the five capability dimensions that determine how fast you can advance.

Overall learning objectives of this session include:

• Define workplace intelligence and distinguish it from traditional HR reporting and people analytics.
• Articulate the business case for workplace intelligence, including the risks of remaining in reactive/reporting modes.
• Assess organizational maturity across five capability dimensions using the Workplace Intelligence Maturity Model.
• Identify the practical first moves, data, listening, and decision practices, required to advance from their current stage.