Alec Levenson
Senior Research Scientist and Director, Center for Effective Organizations
University of Southern California
Martin Edwards
Professor of Management
The University of Queensland
Dana Minbaeva
Professor of Strategic Human Capital
King's College London
Mark Huselid
Distinguished Professor of Workforce Analytics and Director, Center for Workforce Analytics
Northeastern University
People Analytics: Current State and Future Promise
In this 30-minute panel, senior thought and practice leaders will share how to use people analytics as a strategic lever for organisational success. They will discuss the importance of aligning analytics with overarching business objectives and frameworks, ensuring robust data quality and integration practices, and instituting sound ethical frameworks that foster trust and unlock actionable insights. The panel will also examine how advanced analytics can amplify the impact of workforce insights and highlight approaches for weaving data-driven findings into day-to-day decision-making. By exploring both the ‘push’ of analytics capabilities and the ‘pull’ of organisational demand, attendees will discover how to spark tangible, long-lasting change.
- Aligning people analytics with the frameworks used by business leaders to understand business performance
- Ensuring robust data quality and integration practices
- Applying advanced analytics methods ethically and responsibly
- Building frameworks that address bias, privacy and transparency
- Driving effective organisational change with data-driven insights
- Balancing analytics ‘push’ and organisational ‘pull’ to maximise adoption.
- Recognise the core analytics and ethical frameworks needed to sustain trust
- Understand how advanced analytics can inform strategic workforce decisions
- Learn methods for integrating people analytics into change management initiatives
- Identify structures and skill sets required for an effective analytics function.
Given growing pressures to optimise workforce costs, manage distributed teams and stay ahead of evolving business priorities, senior leaders require people analytics that is both robust and context-aware. This session addresses the pressing need for ethical, high-quality analytics and data practices, and for strategic alignment, ensuring workforce insights truly drive sustainable organisational performance.
