Overview
Finance and Human Resources decisions are no longer separate conversations; they are deeply connected drivers of organizational performance, workforce stability, compliance, growth, and risk.
This practical 2-hour virtual seminar helps participants understand how compensation, staffing, budgeting, benefits, productivity, retention, workforce planning, and policy decisions intersect - and how those intersections affect the bottom line, employee experience, and leadership strategy.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of the key finance and HR implications their organization must address now, along with concrete ideas for making more informed, coordinated, and forward-looking decisions.
By participating, you will:
- Understand how finance and HR decisions influence one another across hiring, compensation, retention, productivity, and organizational planning
- Recognize the financial implications of common HR decisions, including turnover, absenteeism, engagement, staffing levels, training, and benefits design
- Identify the HR implications of financial decisions such as budget reductions, growth initiatives, compensation constraints, restructuring, and resource allocation
- Learn how to evaluate workforce-related costs more strategically, including direct costs, hidden costs, and long-term organizational impact
- Explore practical ways finance and HR can collaborate more effectively to support business goals, manage risk, and improve decision quality
- Gain a framework for discussing people-related investments with leadership in a way that connects culture, capability, compliance, and business performance
Why should you Attend
Would you like to understand how finance and HR decisions influence one another across hiring, compensation, retention, productivity, and organizational planning?
What about learning how to evaluate workforce-related costs more strategically, including direct costs, hidden costs, and long-term organizational impact.
Could gaining a framework for discussing people-related investments with leadership in a way that connects culture, capability, compliance, and business performance be helpful?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany helps us improve performance!
Areas Covered in the Session
- The Finance-HR Connection
- Why finance and HR must be aligned in today's organization
- Where misalignment creates cost, risk, inefficiency, or talent problems
- How workforce decisions shape organizational results
- Workforce Costs Beyond Payroll
- The true cost of turnover, vacancies, burnout, absenteeism, and low engagement
- Direct versus hidden people costs
- Why replacement cost and productivity loss matter
- Compensation, Benefits, and Total Rewards
- How pay, incentives, and benefits affect recruitment, retention, and budget pressure
- Balancing competitiveness with affordability
- Evaluating reward strategies through both a people lens and a financial lens
- Staffing, Headcount, and Workforce Planning
- Hiring decisions, labor planning, and role prioritization
- When to add staff, restructure work, automate, outsource, or redesign roles
- Aligning workforce planning with operating and strategic plans
- Performance, Productivity, and Managerial Accountability
- How performance management affects cost control and organizational capacity
- The role of managers in driving accountability, retention, and results
- Connecting HR practices to measurable operational performance
- Risk, Compliance, and Decision Quality
- Legal, financial, and reputational risks tied to HR and finance decisions
- Policy, documentation, and governance considerations
- Making better cross-functional decisions under pressure
- Building a Stronger Partnership Between Finance and HR
- What productive collaboration looks like
- Questions leaders should ask before making major people or cost decisions
- Practical takeaways for stronger alignment going forward
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
