Sydney Savion
Vice Chancellor for People, Culture and Belonging Vanderbilt University
Seminars
Thursday 25th June 2026
Discover: Building Internal Mobility from the Ground Up: How Vanderbilt Is Using Skills, Learning, and Talent Marketplaces to Strengthen Career Pathways
9:20 am
- Creating clarity in career progression and reducing uncertainty by launching a university-wide, skills-based job architecture that maps job families, levels, and capabilities, giving every staff member transparency across Vanderbilt.
- Converting skills insight into actionable development by linking the job architecture to targeted learning pathways, shifting development from “take a course” to “build the exact capabilities that unlock the next role.
- Activating internal mobility at scale by operationalizing the talent marketplace to match people, skills, and roles, while using workforce analytics, enabling technology, and responsible AI to run core operations with greater speed, consistency, and control.
Thursday 25th June 2026
Develop: How Can HR Reduce Complexity Without Creating New Risk?
10:00 am
- Where does decision overload show up most clearly in HR operating models today?
- How do unclear ownership, manual work, and fragmented processes increase risk even when costs are reduced?
- What decisions should be standardised, automated, or governed centrally versus deliberately left local?
- How do leaders know when simplification has gone too far?
