The 2026 HR Leadership Collective is built around one question: what if talent was your primary driver of business growth, not just a cost to be managed?

This year's theme is ROI 2.0: Revenue on Investment. It's a new model for how HR leaders connect hiring decisions, internal mobility, and workforce intelligence to measurable revenue outcomes, using Applied AI to make that connection real and repeatable.

Most companies still measure HR impact by what it saves. ROI 2.0 measures what it generates. That opportunity extends well beyond sales: the roles that build pipelines, retain customers, and accelerate delivery all have revenue consequences that rarely get counted.

Every dollar of waste has already been found. The organizations pulling ahead aren't squeezing more from less. They're converting talent investments into measurable business growth. That requires a different kind of HR leader: not a cost operator, but an architect of acceleration.

Hear from organizations already making this shift. Phenom experts will provide frameworks to link your talent strategy directly to business outcomes.

The baseline of efficiency was never the finish line. The leaders who recognize that first will define what comes next.