MEGA SESSION: Business Skills for the Business Partner
Do your eyes glaze over when looking at a financial spreadsheet? Do you have difficulty understanding your CEO’s vision during company meetings? Ever mix up your debits with your credits? This session will address the basic financial and business areas which you should have a working understanding of to take some of the fear out of the “business” aspects of being a business partner. The ability to understand and diagnose the competitive and strategic challenges of organizations will be a hallmark of quality HR. We will discuss common financial and P&L terminology as well as basic marketing principles that you should understand, and then apply these principles to best practice development of a comprehensive HR agenda.
Michael Walters
Michael Walters is the CHRO for Lyten, Inc, an Advanced Materials company helping to decarbonize the planet by transforming greenhouse gases into Lyten 3D Graphene. Previously, Michael was Head of HR for Samsung Semiconductor and led end-to-end people processes for this $38B business. He has served in HR leadership roles in a wide variety of industries to include United Health Group, Roper Technologies, Microsoft, and Nielsen Entertainment
Michael has taught HR management at the University of Washington for twelve years and is a frequent speaker at SHRM events across the country. He holds an MBA with a concentration in Human Resources Management from Loyola Marymount University and a bachelor's in psychology from University of California, Los Angeles.