Scaling Innovation: How to Ignite and Sustain a Culture of Innovation
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As companies scale, even the most innovative leaders can find themselves leaning towards safer, incremental changes, and straying from the bold mindset that initially propelled their success. But playing it safe is riskier than embracing innovation’s inherent uncertainties – and HR leaders can play a pivotal role in fostering and scaling a culture of innovation.
Join Kahina for this thought-provoking session, where she’ll share the most important lessons she’s learned as Chief People Officer at Workleap, a company that has grown 3x since she joined the team almost 8 years ago.
Kahina will share inspiring real-life examples, including an HR-driven innovation project that led to the creation of “Good Vibes,” a value-creating product feature that’s now an integral part of the Officevibe by Workleap experience. She’ll also delve into the barriers that can stifle innovation, highlight the leadership skills that foster creativity at all levels, and offer actionable strategies to cultivate innovation.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the Role of HR in Innovation
- Identify Barriers to Innovation
- Foster Leadership Skills for Innovation
- Implement Actionable Strategies for cultivating Innovation
- Learn from Real-Life Examples
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Kahina Ouerdane
Kahina is a firm believer in collective intelligence, and in the power of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.
After graduating from law school, Kahina first immersed herself in the world of international law and dedicated herself to tackling global issues. For many years, she led initiatives focused on international law, working in four languages across many different continents.
Driven by the desire to ignite collective action, she progressively – and then passionately – focused her work on organizations and the people behind them.
Through her role as Chief People Officer, Kahina continues to be driven by her ambition to make the world a better place, one organization at a time. She genuinely believes that great things can only be achieved through the development and strengthening of diverse, inclusive, passionate and high-performing teams. Much like Workleap, the company where she has worked for over 7 years, she is also convinced that people are the driving force behind organizations, and that great leaders know how to maintain elevated standards when it comes to both humanity and high performance.
Kahina is a lawyer by training and was a member of the Québec Bar from 2008 to 2022, having obtained both her law degree (LL.B.) and a Masters in International Law (LL.M.). She also studied international relations at the Universidad de Cádiz in Spain. Before joining Workleap, Kahina held strategic consulting and international law management leadership positions at organizations including the Canadian Red Cross, Lawyers Without Borders and PwC.
