Welcome to The Cost of Leadership Conference Registration Page!
The participation package of 65,000 AMD includes:
- 4 keynote speeches
- 3 panel discussions of your choice
- meals throughout the day
- group activities and networking
- dinner
* If you are a 2 or 3 STAR member of the Armenian HR Association, please, contact us to receive your discount promo code.
KEYNOTE SPEECHES
KEYNOTE SPEECHES
Get acquainted with the 3 keynote speeches
Language: English
Companies treat talent attraction as a cost center and hand it to agencies, signaling weakness. They automate with algorithms that spam top profiles while missing the best people on page 500. The real value sits in strategy, networking, knowing the market, and building community. Best people don’t apply, they get found.
After this session, attendees will:
- Recognize the hidden costs of outsourcing recruitment beyond agency fees (lost market insight, weak strategy, missed top talent)
- Understand why algorithms and automation can never find the best candidates, and what actually works instead
- Be able to identify and invest in internal talent attractors as a strategic asset, not a junior recruiter role
Language: English
Digital transformation has become a strategic priority for organizations across industries. Yet despite significant investments in technology, platforms, and digital initiatives, many transformation efforts fail to deliver their intended impact. The challenge is rarely technological —it is fundamentally organizational. At the core of successful transformation lies leadership: the ability to align vision, drive cultural change, and navigate complexity while keeping people at the center of the journey.
Key Objectives of the Session:
- Assess organizational readiness for digital transformation
- Understand the human and organizational cost of change
- Redefine digital transformation through a leadership lens
Language: English
In today’s increasingly complex business environment, leaders are constantly confronted with disruption, uncertainty, and high expectations. The organizations that thrive are often led by individuals who remain resilient under pressure, keep calm during difficult moments, and never lose sight of the people behind the business results. During this session, Erik will share practical insights and real-life experiences on how leaders can strengthen their personal resilience, lead with composure, and create lasting impact through a people-first approach.
After this session, attendees will:
- Resilience | Understand how you can build personal and organizational resilience to navigate uncertainty, setbacks, and continuous change.
- Keep Calm | Learn how you remain composed under pressure, make better decisions during crises, and create stability for their teams.
- Do It for the People | Discover why success ultimately depends on people, and how you can foster trust, engagement, well-being, and commitment through authentic leadership.
Language: English
Over the last decade, 15 European countries, including the Baltics and Western Balkans, have introduced different modalities and combinations of dual VET. Their policy designs have moved between 2 poles: full-time school-based vocational training and dual apprenticeship systems dominated by company training.
Success has depended on social consensus between ministries, schools and industry, motivation policies, and financial considerations.
Latvia introduced work-based learning in 2017. They use this term deliberately: it is not work-based training, but an option for work-based learning. With Latvia’s 80-year tradition of school-based VET, a complete shift to apprenticeship-based VET was never realistic.
Mixed systems offering duality are realistic and valuable for developing qualified talent and strengthening industry. After 30 years of building modern school-based VET in Latvia, Dita believes in company-based VET’s long-term impact.
Dita will share Latvia’s lessons, achievements, regrets, and insights from Estonia and Lithuania – and explore how past knowledge can shape VET’s future.
PANEL
PARALLEL PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Explore the parallel panel discussions in advance.
No advance selection is required. During the conference, you will be able to choose which panel to attend in each round.
Examining the investment organizations make in learning, leadership development, succession, and building future capabilities.
Exploring the financial, operational, and strategic costs of attracting, hiring, and securing the right talent.
A discussion between employers, educational institutions, and policymakers on preparing future talent and sharing responsibility for workforce readiness.
Exploring how HR policies, people management practices, and workforce decisions influence employees, business performance, retention, wellbeing, and long-term organizational sustainability.
Exploring the hidden costs of leadership decisions, balancing speed, risk, uncertainty, accountability, and their long-term impact on people and business.
Examining the organizational, financial, and human costs of digital transformation, and why technology alone is not enough to deliver lasting change.
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