The pandemic crisis has accelerated the fact that organizations are facing widespread uncertainty, ambiguity and transformation as we shift toward a more global and digital world. At the same time, we want to enable employees to keep pace with the evolving workplace, adopt new technologies, co-develop and adapt to new processes, try out innovative solutions to given challenges, and all this while staying engaged and productive. With the employee experience at the center, the way organizations lead and manage in this new normal is critical to business performance and their ability to remain competitive and relevant.

We will learn how certain organizations have tackled with the overnight changes and we will hear from some regional cases and share our own experience.

The online session will be held in a form of a discussion, where we envisage interaction and active participant engagement. 

»This is a part of a Series of Online Sessions to replace CEF Coordinators Meeting 2020«. More information about the series is available on this link. The online meeting will be carried out on September 30, 2020 at 10:30 — 12:00.

Who should attend?

The online session is designed for employees working in the area of organizational culture, leadership, inclusion, diversity, wellbeing and implementing changes and may be working in human resources departments or other parts of ministries, central banks and other public sector institutions.

Your contributions to the event will be needed and welcomed, so please expect our preparatory questions in advance, upon your confirmation of attendance.

Welcome address

• Mugur Isărescu, Governor, National Bank of Romania & CEF Governing Board Chair
• Jana Repanšek, Director, Center of Excellence in Finance

Faculty

• Siska D'hoore, Head of Human Resources Management, National Bank of Belgium: Siska D’hoore joined the National Bank of Belgium in 2018, with a focus to adapt the Bank to today’s challenges. Previously, she held various positions in the IT sector, often involved in large scale outsourcing and organizational design projects, before moving to HR. She was over 6 years HR Director for West & Central Europe at Getronics, a worldwide IT player. She has a large international experience in various sectors (finance, public sector, service industry) across different European countries and India. She holds an International MBA from Vlerick Management School and is a certified ProSci Change Manager.
   
• Sanja Pregl, Senior Advisor, Bank of Slovenia: Sanja has for the last ten years been a Senior Advisor in the field of training and development. Previously she was the Head of the Publication Division at the Bank of Slovenia, Prior to this, she was advisor in the Department for Culture in the City of Ljubljana and publisher and editor in a small private publishing house. She is interested in learning, communications and is curious about everything that brings the best out of people. She has certificates in training and coaching for helping individuals grow to realize their full potential. She believes in and practices the on-going process of constant development, especially concerning topics such as innovative learning and development practices, employee engagement, flexibility, thinking and mindfulness. She has international experience in training development and delivery, facilitation, public speaking, writing and change management and sees each new challenge as a welcome opportunity.
   
• Boryana Yankova-Sharkova, National Revenue Agency, Bulgaria: Boryana has been working for the National Revenue Agency of Bulgaria for 15 years. She started her professional path at the Strategic planning unit back in 2005 and then, at the end of 2006, she joined the International affairs department. Since then, she has been engaged with various activities related to management and coordination of EU programs and coordination of NRA activities in relation to Bulgaria's membership in the EU. In 2018, she was appointed a project manager of the NRA project dedicated to the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of EU. She is passionate about learning and knowledge sharing and has experience in development and delivery of internal training for the NRA. Boryana believes in people-oriented culture and enjoys building strong relations with colleagues and trainees.
   
• Natalia Zabolotnii, National Bank of Moldova: Natalia has been working for National Bank of Moldova since 2005 as part of internal audit and budget, finance and accounting. Last 6 years, as a Director of Strategy, Organization and, recently, HR Department, she is responsible for the organization of strategic planning process, deployment of the strategy by project management office, business process management and optimization within the bank and human resources management. All these functions aim to consolidate the bank governance and institutional capacity. She is very interested in governance issues like people and process management and communication and believes that good governance based on sound standards adapted to concrete culture is key to a performant and social responsible central bank.
   
• Ana Frangež Kerševan, Senior Partnership Officer, CEF: Ana is an economist by education and she joined CEF 14 years ago, when she gained experience in running international projects in SE Europe as well as design and lead numerous learning sessions in all thematic areas of CEF program. She focusses on supporting localization activities and advising on project management aspects, while being responsible for methodological design and delivery of trainings of tutors, conferences, CEF governance and high level events and CEF outreach program in Slovenia and the region. She is driven by how learning works and what environment inspires learning. She believes in the power of experiential learning and her passion is exploring new ways to powerfully present ideas to different groups of audience.

Partners

This learning initiative was supported by: