Overview
HR leaders are under growing pressure to do more with fewer resources-while improving compliance, employee experience, and strategic impact. In this fast-paced, practical session, you’ll discover how to automate and streamline HR workflows to eliminate repetitive manual tasks, reduce errors, increase visibility, and free your team for higher-value strategic work.
From onboarding and performance management to compliance tracking and employee communications, we’ll explore how smart automation tools-powered by AI and modern HR technology-can transform your HR function into a more agile, data-driven, and proactive business partner. Walk away with actionable strategies, workflow examples, and a clear roadmap to begin modernizing your HR processes immediately.
Why should you Attend
By participating, you will:
- Understand what HR workflow automation is-and what it is not
- Identify high-impact HR processes that are ideal candidates for automation
- Learn how automation improves compliance, accuracy, and documentation
- Discover how AI can enhance decision-making and reduce administrative workload
- Gain insight into integrating automation with existing HRIS, payroll, and performance systems
- Explore risk mitigation strategies and governance considerations
- Develop a practical action plan to begin automating HR workflows within 30 days
Would you like to understand what HR workflow automation is-and what it is not?
How about discovering how AI can enhance decision-making and reduce administrative workload?
Could it help to develop a practical action plan to begin automating HR workflows within 30 days?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany help us, our team and our organization improve performance!
Areas Covered in the Session
- The Business Case for HR Workflow Automation
- Mapping Current HR Processes: Identifying Bottlenecks and Redundancies
- Automating Core HR Functions: Recruiting, Onboarding, Benefits, and Payroll Coordination
- Performance Management and Goal Tracking Automation
- Compliance Monitoring and Documentation Workflows
- Employee Self-Service and Digital Communication Tools
- Using AI to Enhance HR Analytics and Reporting
- Integration with HRIS, ATS, Payroll, and Collaboration Platforms
- Data Privacy, Security, and Ethical Considerations
- Building a 90-Day HR Automation Implementation Roadmap
Who Will Benefit
Speaker Profile
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.
He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.
He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
Instructor
Chris DeVany
