Chief Human Resource Officer Forum - 2025 Healthcare Human Resources Conference
November 19-21, 2025
Carlsbad, CA
Engage Directly with Health System Leaders
The Health Management Academy’s Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) Forum brings together system-level HR leaders from Leading Health Systems and select industry executives in an intimate, retreat-style setting. The program centers on member-led discussions of workforce evolution, leadership development, care model innovation, and emerging technologies.
With a strict 1:1 health system-to-industry ratio, the Forum fosters candid exchange, collaborative problem-solving, and trusted relationships, without crowded vendor halls or transactional meetings.
Health System Forum Members
What Sets CHRO Forum Apart
Member-Driven Content, Curated for Human Resource Executives: All our meetings are built around the priorities that matter most to today’s healthcare philanthropy executives. Members shape forum content to reflect their top priorities, such as labor relations, organizational stability, and merger strategies.
The Right People, in the Right Room: Attendees include health system human resource executives from organizations like Emory Healthcare, Mass General Brigham, and Intermountain, alongside key industry leaders - typically CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and product and strategy executives. All participants are hand-selected based on their ability to contribute meaningfully to the conversation.
A Forum Built for Relationships: Reception-style dinners and informal social gatherings welcome friends and family and facilitate long-term relationship building.
True Partnership: This is a peer-to-peer forum. The industry executives who attend want to listen, contribute insights, and build lasting connections with healthcare human resource executives facing similar challenges.
The THMA Difference Lies in Access, Intentional Design, and a Strict Focus on Community
The CHRO Forum creates a purpose-built space for executive-level engagement. Every session, social setting, and touchpoint is curated to foster meaningful, candid dialogue between fellow health system Chief Human Resource Officers and select industry innovators, most commonly CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and strategic product leaders.
Industry Forum Members
Topics include:
Guiding the Transition: The CHRO’s Role in CEO and Executive Succession: Leadership transitions can be inflection points for a health system’s culture, performance, and strategy. This session delves into the role the CHRO should play in shaping successful CEO onboarding, and how HR leaders are managing succession planning at the highest levels while maintaining trust and momentum across the organization.
Accelerating Growth: HR Leadership in M&A and System Integration: HR plays a critical role in ensuring cultural alignment, workforce integration, and operational continuity. We will discuss the challenges of integrating talent structures across legacy organizations and shaping post-merger strategies that reflect both people and performance goals.
Looking Beyond Healthcare: Cross-Industry Lessons in People Strategy: In today’s dynamic labor environment, CHROs are looking outside healthcare for fresh thinking and innovative practices. What can health system HR leaders learn from their peers in other industries about workforce agility, employee experience, and leadership development?
The Chief Human Resource Officer Forum Experience
Each CHRO Forum is a 2-day immersive experience with member-led sessions focusing on real-time challenges and forward-looking strategies. The Health Management Academy’s Fall 2025 Chief Human Resource Officer provides original insights and analysis of today’s challenges.
Our Convening Experiences
Upcoming Event Dates and Locations
The CHRO Forum is hosted twice a year in thoughtfully selected locations across the country. Each event is timed to align with evolving industry priorities, providing a fresh opportunity to reconnect with peers, gain new insights, and advance your healthcare financial strategy.
Extending Value Beyond the HR Conference
Members gain access to a year-round ecosystem of insights and engagement through THMA’s Executive Insights Hub. This digital platform discusses trends and challenges unique to strategic planning, as well as trending CXO priorities, from large health systems across the country.
Our other year-round resources include:
Quarterly Trend Reports: Digestible insights and follow-ups from live briefings and proprietary research.
Executive Edge: A Sunday evening digest with quick-read summaries of industry-impacting events.
Post-Forum Debriefs: Key takeaways and insights from our Forums - useful even for teammates who did not attend.
Healthcare Bootcamp: A library of short videos and modules to onboard new team members or sharpen your team’s healthcare knowledge.
About The Health Management Academy
Since 1998, The Health Management Academy has cultivated the premier membership-based community of healthcare’s most influential CXOs from top U.S. health systems, as well as decision makers from innovative industry companies.
We cultivate exceptional peer groups, providing original market insights, world-class leadership development programs, and novel member alliances to more than 2,000 health system senior executives and 200 industry organizations.
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