Veronica B. Chase Co.

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Your role is changing faster than the job descriptions you write.

Talks and working sessions for HR and L&D leaders, and the executive teams they work with, on what people leadership becomes when AI redesigns the work. From an advisor running that redesign right now.

28 years in organizational effectiveness. A decade inside a Fortune Global 500, five years as Senior Director of Performance and OE, accountable for 16,000+ managers. CPLP.

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Veronica B. Chase, senior leadership advisor.

I'm talking about this from inside the work.

Most AI talks for HR audiences walk through tools. Mine start from the work itself: the review cycle, the development plan, the job description, and who decides what.

For a decade I ran performance and organizational effectiveness at a Fortune Global 500 services company. In the Senior Director seat I was accountable for performance management across 16,000+ managers and a $12M+ annual budget.

Right now I'm redesigning three processes with AI in the loop: the annual performance review, development planning, and the strategic planning cycle. What I bring to a room comes from that work, this year.

Redesign the work, not the tools.

Talks

Every talk is tailored to the audience in the room. These are the four I'm asked about most.

For HR and L&D audiences

What HR and L&D Leadership Becomes When AI Redesigns the Work

Your role is changing faster than the job descriptions you write.

AI got into people work before anyone redesigned the work. Managers are drafting reviews with it. Recruiters are screening with it. IT owns the tools and HR inherits what happens next. This talk is about the seat HR and L&D leaders can take now: alongside IT, organized around how the work actually gets done.

Your audience leaves with:

  • A clear read on where AI is already inside your people processes
  • The decisions that have to stay human, and why
  • A first move you can make in your own organization this quarter

Best for: HR and L&D conferences, CHRO and CLO forums, association chapter meetings.

For HR and L&D audiences

The Wrong Processes, Faster

Most organizations are using AI to make the wrong processes faster.

Speed up a performance review that never worked and you get bad reviews sooner. Using the annual review as the worked example, I break down how to decide what a process is for before deciding what AI does inside it.

Your audience leaves with:

  • A filter for which processes are worth redesigning first
  • A worked example of a performance review redesigned with AI in the loop
  • The handoffs between AI and people, mapped

Best for: HR, L&D and operations audiences, and leadership offsites.

For HR and L&D audiences

Managers Are Already Using AI on People. Nobody Designed How.

One manager, one prompt, one review at a time.

Ask managers how they wrote this year's reviews and some will tell you they pasted a paragraph into a personal AI account. Nobody gave them a better way. This talk covers what managers need to lead inside redesigned work: what good performance looks like now, what they still own, and where their judgment can't be handed off.

Your audience leaves with:

  • What manager capability looks like once AI is in the process
  • Where manager judgment can't be delegated
  • How to set expectations before everyday usage sets them for you

Best for: HR and L&D audiences and leadership teams.

For executive audiences

Redesign the Work. Not the Tools.

For CEOs, COOs, Heads of IT and the senior teams around them.

Plenty of mid-market companies have an AI strategy. Far fewer have a workforce redesigned to carry it. This talk is about the gap between the two: the roles, evaluation and capability that decide whether an AI rollout lands or stalls.

Your audience leaves with:

  • Why AI strategies stall at the people layer
  • Where IT and HR leadership have to meet
  • What to redesign before the next rollout

Best for: executive forums, CEO peer groups, senior team offsites.

Formats

Keynote

30 to 45 minutes. One idea, worked through with real examples from the inside.

Working session

60 to 120 minutes, in person or virtual. Your audience applies the method to one process they own and leaves with a first draft.

Panel or fireside

For panels that need someone who has run the system at scale.

In-house session

For your senior team or HR function, built around your own processes.

In person across the Northeast corridor (New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC). Virtual anywhere.

How booking works

  1. A 30-minute call

    You tell me who's in the room and what they need to walk out with.

  2. A tailored talk

    I shape the talk to your audience's industry, seat and current questions.

  3. Speaker materials

    Bio, headshot and session description, ready for your program.

  4. A practical next step

    Every talk ends with a practical next step your attendees can take back to their own organization.

Speaker bio

For event programs and introductions. Copy it as is.

Veronica B. Chase is a senior leadership advisor in organizational effectiveness and the founder of Veronica B. Chase Co. For a decade she ran performance and organizational effectiveness at a Fortune Global 500 services company, the last five years as Senior Director, accountable for performance management across 16,000+ managers and a $12M+ annual budget. She now works with senior HR and L&D leaders, and with mid-market senior teams, redesigning the work for the AI era. She is currently leading three AI-assisted process redesigns: the annual performance review, development planning, and strategic planning. She holds the CPLP from ATD, an MS in Instructional Technology from Lehigh University, and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Moravian University.

Want to apply this to your own process? The Re:Work Lab is a three-hour working session for five senior HR and L&D leaders. Explore the Lab →

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