Best of Spark TALENT 2025
Spark TALENT 2025 delivered a jolt of necessary energy, tackling the biggest workforce challenges head on, including AI and talent acquisition. This year, our sessions didn’t just discuss trends, they provided playbooks for strategic action, offering HR leaders clear direction on topics from mastering AI integration to redefining high-performance culture.
We’ve gathered the best of Spark TALENT 2025 content so you can access actionable strategies and essential speaker takeaways that will shape your HR decisions for the year to come. Consider this your cheat sheet for navigating the future of work.
HR Works Podcast: Behind the Scenes of SPARK Talent with Staples VP
Bertrand Dussert, VP of Talent Acquisition at Staples, detailed in his Spark TALENT 2025 session exactly who HR needs to fill and drive these roles being transformed by technology: Talent Outliers. These are the people who don’t just work within the system; they change and reframe it. After his presentation, Dussert gave HR Daily Advisor a behind-the-scenes look at what he considers is the most important changes HR leaders need to be aware of.
Know Before You Go: HR Experts to Break Down AI at SPARK Talent
In a year where AI has seen both monumental growth in capabilities and dismal return on investments for many companies, it’s more important than ever that HR professionals know exactly how they should be using AI. Thankfully, SPARK speakers have just the advice for their HR peers.
SPARK TALENT Day 2: HR’s 3-Part Playbook for AI, Outlier Sourcing & CX
Our keynotes from Ross Sparkman, Bertrand Dussert, and Blair Bennett’s hot session, didn’t just talk theory; they handed us a three-part playbook for the AI and outlier era: First, know exactly what work needs to change. Second, know who can lead the change. Third, design the experience that attracts them.
Know Before You Go: HR Experts to Break Down AI at SPARK Talent (Pt. 2)
In part two of this three-part series, take a look at just a few quotes from our full interviews and see who you should be listening to as Spark TALENT sets off this October.
Infographic: The 3 Great HR Shifts from SPARK TALENT 2025
The 3 Great Shifts of HR are a must for HR professionals to know, and Spark TALENT 2025 conference has everything you need to know about them. The conference delivered a unified mandate to HR and Talent Acquisition (TA) leaders: the reactive, service-provider model is obsolete. Success requires you to stop being an “order-taker” and become an “architect of the workforce.”
Know Before You Go: Best People Strategy Practices at SPARK TALENT
In part three of this three-part series, take a look at just a few quotes from our full interviews about best people strategy practices and see who you should be listening to as Spark TALENT sets off this October.
Day One of the Spark TALENT 2025 conference delivered a unified mandate to HR and Talent Acquisition (TA) leaders: the reactive, service-provider model is obsolete. Success requires you to stop being an “order-taker” and become an “architect of the workforce.” Three powerful sessions defined the essential shifts necessary to make that change.
Infographic: The New HR Playbook from SPARK TALENT 2025
If Spark TALENT gave us one clear takeaway, it’s that the future of HR is less about managing processes and more about becoming architects of organizational change and talent scouting. Check out some of the speaker’s rules for HR in our infographic below!
On this special episode of HR Works, HR Daily Advisor editor Griffin Cobb sat down with Peter Lynch, Chief People Officer at Cardinal Group Companies and speaker at Spark TALENT, to discuss the “Human Advantage” and how AI is helping the workplace be more human, not less.
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