2026
WAT
Virtual
For years, HR has carried a critical mandate: establish strong workforce foundations, ensure compliance, manage people-related risks and create the policies and processes that enable organisations to operate effectively. That mandate remains essential. But strategic HR requires more than managing obligations. It requires the ability to understand business priorities, anticipate workforce needs and influence decisions that shape organisational success.
The opportunity is for HR to create, enable, protect and sustain value by connecting workforce decisions with the outcomes that matter most to the organisation.
Compliance provides the foundation. Strategic HR is defined by how effectively that foundation is used to create value, enable performance, protect the organisation and sustain future success.
Strategic HR is defined by the ability to connect workforce decisions with the priorities that determine organisational success. It means understanding where the organisation is heading, what capabilities are required to achieve those ambitions and how HR can influence the decisions that build a stronger, more resilient workforce.
It means moving beyond managing workforce activities to helping leaders understand the implications behind people decisions and their impact on business performance.
Creating capability, enabling execution, protecting organisational value and sustaining the conditions required for long-term success.
In this webinar, you will explore:
This conversation is designed for senior HR and business leaders across East Africa who are responsible for shaping workforce strategies, building organisational capability and creating sustainable business value.
If you influence how your organisation creates, develops, protects and sustains value through its people, this conversation is for you.
Group CEO, Workforce
As Group CEO, Foluso brings an enterprise-wide perspective on the connection between people, workforce capability and organisational value. He will share insights on what makes HR truly strategic moving beyond functional responsibilities to understand how workforce decisions create, enable, protect and sustain value for the organisation.
Commercial Director, East Africa, Workforce Africa
Cynthia brings a regional perspective on the workforce priorities shaping organisations across East Africa. She will guide the conversation, exploring how HR leaders can strengthen their strategic influence and create greater value through the decisions that shape people, capability and organisational performance.
Compliance remains fundamental to HR. But strategic HR is defined by what happens beyond compliance how HR creates value, enables organisational performance, protects what matters and sustains the capabilities required for long-term success. The question is not whether HR has a role to play in organisational value creation.
