Transform the Employee Experience with “People First” HR Service Delivery
As the most successful companies have already realized, a great employee experience can positively impact bottom-line business results—from increased efficiency to boosted productivity to an overall happier workforce. A new generation of HR technologies is helping to elevate the service HR teams deliver to their employees. With the ability to better understand employees’ needs and deliver personalized service every day, HR has the opportunity to make a greater impact on people and company culture.
Ultimate Software offers the first unified HCM suite with integrated HR service delivery technology that increases HR agility, reduces administrative burdens, and launches more responsive support to your people—the driving force behind your business.
Jarik Conrad
Dr. Jarik Conrad, EdD, SPHR, SHRM-CSP, NACD.DC, is vice president of the Human Insights team at UKG, which consists of former HR practitioners, business leaders, and consultants who are distinguished experts in the HCM field and uniquely qualified to help leadership teams reach their organizational goals. With an acute pulse on industry trends, best practices, and technological innovations, Jarik and his team serve as liaisons, trusted advisors, and thought leaders who help to shape HR industry conversations and direction. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Workforce Institute at UKG.
Prior to UKG, Dr. Conrad spent more than 20 years in HR leadership roles in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He is a sought-after speaker on employee health and wellness, the future of work, emotional intelligence, and workplace diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEI&B), and has been recognized as one of the world’s top “people practitioners” as well as a “Top HR Influencer.”
Dr. Conrad is the author of the bestselling books, “The Fragile Mind: How it Has Produced and Unwittingly Perpetrates America’s Tragic Disparities,” and, “In Search of Humanity: Why We Fight, How to Stop, and the Role Business Must Play.”
Dr. Conrad, who grew up in public housing in East St. Louis, earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois, two master’s degrees from Cornell University, and a Doctor of Education from the University of North Florida.
Kim Conti
Solution Consultant/Engineer with 15 years experience on the vendor software side of Human Resources having worked in various organizations including core HCM’s and point solution providers.
Passionate former HR practitioner who combines an MBA in Human Resources with more than 12 years of front line HR experience with a Fortune 50 retailer who’s personal mission it is to support HR getting into the 21st century with innovative technology that enhances both the HR and employee experience.
Native Chicagoan who loves to travel, especially to Dallas where her daughter Kati lives and works.