HR guru Adrian Furnham on talent strategy measurement

Among the experts who will steer this year’s conversation on HR strategy at Talent Management Asia is Adrian Furnham, professor of Psychology at University College London. In his keynote presentation, Furnham will explore how HR leaders and talent executives can incorporate talent management strategy into business strategic planning.

Talent Management Asia, the region’s biggest human capital strategy conference, is a two-day conference happening in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong in March 2017. The annual event is attended by senior HR professionals and corporate leaders from the biggest companies in Asia.

“Talent Management Asia 2017 will bring together the most respected HR gurus and widely acclaimed speakers in the industry,” said Aditi Sharma Kalra, regional editor of Human Resources magazine. “Delegates can expect substantial insights, proven strategies, and eye-opening exchanges from the stage.”

Talent Management Asia will explore the most pressing issues organisations and HR practitioners are currently facing today, such as global talent management outlook, compensation & benefits strategies, employee retention, and organisational effectiveness.

Adrian Furnham will give a presentation on measuring talent strategy success and linking the metrics to the organisation’s goals and financial results.

Furnham is the author of over 50 books on management, workforce behaviour, and leadership, including Management Intelligence, The People Business and The Elephant in the Boardroom: The Psychology of Leadership Derailment. He graduated with a degree in Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics and completed his doctorate at Oxford University.

A sought-after speaker, Furnham has delivered lectures abroad and held scholarships and visiting professorships at various institutions, such as the University of New South Wales, the University of the West Indies, the University of Hong Kong and the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

He also works as a consultant to major international companies, with particular interests in top team development, management change performance management systems, psychometric testing and leadership derailment.

Previous Talent Management Asia participants were Fortune 500 companies and major employers across the region, such as CapitaLand, Coca-Cola, Facebook, Fox International, MasterCard, Mitsubishi, Singapore Airlines, Standard & Poor’s, The Nielsen Company, and Unilever. All presenters & panellists, such as Angeline Oh, VP for group talent management and development at SingTel, were director or vice president level HR professionals with regional responsibility.

Held in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in March 2017, Talent Management Asia is Asia’s biggest conference on talent management and human capital strategy. The two-day annual event is focused on global best practice HR strategy, featuring an agenda dominated by case studies and global thought leadership, and attracts a large audience of senior HR generalists and specialists as well as and CEOs, CFOs and COOs closely involved in their companies’ HR strategy.

To review the topics & agenda, check out the stellar speaker list and reserve your seat, visit www.talentmanagement.asia before it’s sold out. For more information please contact:

- For Singapore: Renamel Torres, renamelt@humanresourcesonline.net, +65 6423 0329- For Kuala Lumpur: Adrian Ray, adrianr@humanresourcesonline.net, +65 6423 0329- For Hong Kong: Kenneth To, kennetht@humanresourcesonline.net,+852 2861 1882