ON DEMAND WEBINAR
Duration: 1 hour​

With AI disruption, economic uncertainty, shifting expectations around flexibility, and rising burnout, employee engagement is a mission-critical issue in organizations today. Teams are being asked to do more amid constant change, and while many organizations are investing in engagement, they’re still seeing “quiet disengagement,” lower discretionary effort, and increased turnover risk.

In this session, we’ll cut through feel-good tactics and focus on what actually moves engagement in 2026—things like people-forward manager behaviors, job design fundamentals, trust-building practices, and measurement that leads to action (not just more surveys). Join us to:

• Identify the biggest drivers of engagement in 2026 and distinguish between “nice-to-have perks” vs. high-impact levers (think: role clarity, growth, recognition, workload sustainability, trust).
• Diagnose the root causes of disengagement using a simple framework that separates culture issues, manager capability gaps, and job/system design problems.
• Design an engagement strategy that’s tailored, not generic, by mapping interventions to specific employee segments and needs.
• Equip managers with practical, engagement-boosting micro-habits that improve motivation quickly.
• Measure engagement in a way that drives action and creates a culture of feedback and accountability.

SPEAKERS

Vandy Densmore
Chief Human Resources Officer, Sage Family of Companies
 

Hari Date, MBA
Principal Consultant, Workhuman
 

Katie Sens
VP of Human Resources, Autobell Car Wash
 

Matt Poepsel, PhD
Vice President and The Godfather of Talent Optimization, The Predictive Index