Josh Drean
Josh Drean on Employee Engagement
Josh Drean
Keynote Speaker
Co-founder and Senior Partner, Work3 Institute; Harvard Business Review Co-author, Employment is Dead; Work Tech Advisor, Harvard Innovation Labs
Josh Drean is Co-founder of the Work3 Institute, Web3 Advisor at the Harvard Innovation Labs, and an HR Transformation expert who marries emerging technologies with workplace strategies.
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Josh Drean is a renowned expert in talent management, people analytics, and workforce experience, with a keen focus on integrating these areas with emerging technologies. As the Co-founder of the Work3 Institute, he specializes in enhancing workforce strategies through innovative approaches.
With a master’s degree from Harvard University and a background in I/O Psychology, Josh has a rich history of developing tech-driven solutions in the human resources field. His achievements include the successful incubation and sale of an AI-based HR Tech startup at Harvard, recognized for its pioneering work in real-time sentiment analysis. A thought leader in his field, Josh’s insights have been featured in publications such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Economist, and he has appeared on The Today Show, NBC, and FOX Business.
As an international speaker, Josh excels in making complex topics like people analytics and workforce experience relatable and actionable for digital-first leaders. His mission is to empower organizations to leverage the latest in technology and analytics, ensuring ethical practices and driving business innovation.
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Josh Drean’s Speech Topics
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The Era of Human: Leveraging AI to Augment Human Potential at Work
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, Generative AI has the ability to create and accelerate data driven decision-making. This shift brings new opportunities and challenges, but embracing change will help to drive better creativity, strategic thinking, and efficiency.
AI has the power to relieve us from tasks that are mundane and repetitive, but to replace humans with automation is a fundamentally flawed approach for many companies who focus solely on the bottom-line rather than the potential for top-line growth.
By focusing on systems that amplify, rather than replace, human capabilities, we can bridge the gap between the speed of technology and the pace of human adaptability.
Learning Outcomes:
- Provide real-life case studies to illustrate the power of AI for business.
- Demonstrate how AI tools assist in making better data-driven decisions.
- Framework how AI immediately and tangibly improves employee experience.
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Future Shock: Is Traditional Employment Dead?
Business is on the cusp of an inevitable and profound transformation. Conventional work models are failing to adapt to the evolving needs and expectations of the modern workforce.
Simultaneously, the emergence of disruptive technologies such as AI, coupled with web3 innovations including the metaverse, blockchain, and decentralized work models, is unlocking a whole new realm of work.
With compelling case studies and cutting-edge examples, this keynote ventures into unexplored territories to reveal how these innovations can transform work into more democratic, human-centric, and empowering work experiences.
How will your organization adapt to the evolving work landscape?
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the impact of emerging tech on today’s workforce.
- Navigate the transition to a decentralized work environment.
- Employee Experience Design (EXD) in the age of AI and automation.
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Workforce Experience Design in the Era of Employee Power
Employees are unhappy at work and companies are still trying to force them into the corporate structures that no longer serve them. And while they comply with company demands, employees are checking out when they find it necessary for their mental health.
Employers, then, must design meaningful experiences that are attractive to an emboldened workforce by embracing continuous feedback loops, implementing human tech, and bringing new meaning to their employee experience initiatives.
Josh will address the shifting power dynamics of work, outline strategies on how to design fulfilling employment, and offer an upgraded approach for creating authentic and transparent human connection.
Learning Outcomes
- Adopt a modern, employees-first feedback culture
- Leverage emerging technologies to make work more human
- Embrace a human-centric, digital first mentality for success
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