Dis­ruptHR is com­ing to T&T.

The event, which al­lows in­dus­try pro­fes­sion­als to dis­cuss a wide range of top­ics on im­prov­ing the work­place, will be host­ed in Trinidad on June 28 from 6 pm-9 pm at the Sound Forge, 1 Christo­pher Samuel Dri­ve, St James.  

 Or­gan­is­er of Dis­ruptHR Caribbean (Bar­ba­dos, Trinidad & Ja­maica) and own­er of HR@Heart Con­sult­ing Inc Julie Tur­ney said the con­cept of the event was built on the be­lief that the tra­di­tion­al meth­ods of man­ag­ing peo­ple and tal­ent are no longer suf­fi­cient; thus, Dis­ruptHR sought to bring to­geth­er thought lead­ers and change­mak­ers to share their in­sights and ideas in a dy­nam­ic and in­ter­ac­tive set­ting.  

“Dis­ruptHR events fea­ture fast-paced pre­sen­ta­tions from a di­verse range of speak­ers who are giv­en just five min­utes to share their in­no­v­a­tive ideas on var­i­ous top­ics re­lat­ed to peo­ple re­la­tions. These bite-sized talks are de­signed to chal­lenge and in­spire and will leave you with plen­ty of food for thought,” she said. 

This year the speak­ers are Deb­bie Jol­lie, Akeisha Mc Don­ald, Cindy Wil­son, Ja­son Jack, Nicole Fish­er, Dr Rochelle Haynes, Leah De Souza, Kim­ber­ly Chan, Stacey Ram­samooj, Keron Rose, Char­lene Pe­dro, Natasha Nunez and Julie Tur­ney and Sun­ny Bling is host­ing the event.  

Tur­ney said peo­ple should pre­pare to ex­pect awe­some pre­sen­ta­tions from the 13 speak­ers, who are all bring­ing their A-game on June 28.  

“Get ready to rock and roll be­cause our speak­er line­up is pure dy­na­mite! We have not one, not two, but 13 rock­star speak­ers ready to take the stage and share their ideas on mak­ing the world of work a bet­ter place for every­one.

“But wait, there’s more! Each speak­er is giv­en just 20 slides, with on­ly 15 sec­onds on each slide be­fore it ro­tates. That’s right, they’ve just got five min­utes to de­liv­er their mes­sage and ig­nite your pas­sion for change.

“The speak­ers will dis­cuss var­i­ous top­ics, from re­cruit­ment to men­tal health in the work­place, from in­no­v­a­tive hu­man re­source prac­tices to the pow­er of sto­ry­telling in em­ploy­ee en­gage­ment. So, get ready for a whirl­wind of ideas, in­sights, and in­spi­ra­tion,” she said.  

 Dis­rupt HR has be­come the go-to event for in­dus­try ex­perts and busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als in Bar­ba­dos for the past four years. Re­flect­ing on the jour­ney, she said that she was pleased that de­spite start­ing Dis­rupt HR at the be­gin­ning of the pan­dem­ic that she and her team have been able to con­tin­ue to pro­vide the space for pro­fes­sion­als to shine.  

“We start­ed at the be­gin­ning of the pan­dem­ic, and we could on­ly host one face-to-face event be­fore the lock­down. Af­ter that, we had to take the events vir­tu­al, which came with its own set of chal­lenges be­cause the orig­i­na­tors of the event se­ries did not want or­gan­is­ers to use the same for­mat that is used in the face-to-face set­ting, so the team and I had to get cre­ative. We were able to host pan­el dis­cus­sions on thought-pro­vok­ing top­ics re­lat­ed to nav­i­gat­ing the pan­dem­ic, and they were very well at­tend­ed. 

Our biggest chal­lenge has been ac­quir­ing spon­sor­ship, but it has not stopped us from mov­ing for­ward. Our vi­sion is clear, and we will suc­ceed no mat­ter the ob­sta­cle. 

This year not on­ly will Dis­rupt HR be host­ed in Bar­ba­dos, but it will al­so be held in T&T and Ja­maica.

“We are in­cred­i­bly priv­i­leged to have the es­teemed part­ner­ship of The Hu­man Re­source Man­age­ment As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (HRMATT) for this sig­nif­i­cant oc­ca­sion. The sup­port and col­lab­o­ra­tion of the HR as­so­ci­a­tion in the coun­try is in­valu­able to our suc­cess, and HRMATT has shown un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to en­sur­ing the suc­cess of this event,” she ex­pressed. 

“We are pleased al­so to wel­come Sun­ny Bling as our host for Dis­ruptHR Trinidad, and we look for­ward to work­ing with him to build the event se­ries here. It is al­ways our en­deav­our to have a di­verse mix of lo­cal, re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al speak­ers for these events as we see this as a great way to share di­verse thoughts on im­prov­ing the work­place,” she said.  

 The HR pro­fes­sion­al and busi­ness­woman said that Dis­rupt HR Trinidad 1.0 will en­cour­age mem­bers of the au­di­ence to par­tic­i­pate as well as they could walk away with prizes from their spon­sors.  

To this end, Tur­ney wished to thank her spon­sors and team for their ded­i­ca­tion to en­sur­ing that Dis­rupt HR Trinidad 1.0 is suc­cess­ful.  

 “I would like to say a heart­felt thank you to our spon­sors, Caribbean­jobs.com, Payce Dig­i­tal, Gildan SRL, HR@Heart­Con­sult­ing Inc, LFR Ed­u­ca­tion­al and Con­sult­ing Ser­vices Ltd and The Caribbean So­ci­ety for HR Pro­fes­sion­als. More im­por­tant­ly I would like to thank our team Ka­t­ri­na How­ell-Thomas, Maria Rowe, An­dre Rock, Au­ra Tel­man, Rachel Reid, Christal-Ann Downes, Ker­ri-Anne Brath­waite, Tiffany Jones, Jas­min Tur­ney, Gaynelle Mar­shall, Dr Rochelle Haynes, and Gale Wi­ethers.” 

The Hu­man Re­source Man­age­ment As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad & To­ba­go (HRMATT) is the lead­ing voice of the Hu­man Re­source Pro­fes­sion lo­cal­ly. HRMATT Says is a col­umn meant to ad­dress is­sues and con­cerns of pro­fes­sion­als and the gen­er­al pub­lic fo­cused on Hu­man Cap­i­tal De­vel­op­ment. To­day’s ar­ti­cle is writ­ten by Dis­rupt HR. Learn more about HRMATT by vis­it­ing all our web­site: www.hrmatt.com. Fol­low us on Face­book, LinkedIn, In­sta­gram and Twit­ter. Con­tact us at: 687-5523 or via email: sec­re­tari­at@hrmatt.com