In most organizations today, optimizing the selection, deployment, and retention of human capital is the paramount differentiator of organizational success or failure. This session will outline what it takes for you to uncover your organization’s human capital needs, develop both proven and leading-edge strategies to optimize your workforce contributions, and the appropriate metrics to determine the effectiveness of your chosen approaches. For non-HR organizational leaders, the session concludes with the next steps to determining if the internal HR group is functioning at its peak strategic level. For HR leaders, the session concludes with specific steps of how to remain seen as a business partner.