Good morning!
Love them or hate them, New Year’s resolutions offer a chance for anyone to start the year with a clean slate and define their ambitions for the coming months. Business leaders are certainly no exception.
I reached out to the CHROs from 10 companies, including Estée Lauder, Papa Johns, and Walmart, asking them to share their hopes for 2024, and what they plan to focus their energies on.
Their answers ran the gamut, from providing better support for middle managers, to concentrating on retaining talent. Several themes echoed across resolutions as a whole, including better investment into AI, emphasizing employee wellbeing, and improving employee learning and skills development.
Cori Davis, the chief people officer at biotechnology company Genentech, took a big picture approach to her resolution, and noted that the last several years have been difficult for everyone. Her goal is to “bring more joy and energy into the workplace.”
Others like Colleen McKeown, the CHRO at real estate investment trust company Prologis, drilled down into more specifics. She said her resolution was to work with the CTO to build an AI-focused team to execute the company’s AI strategy. She also plans to focus on succession planning, and “ensuring that all very senior roles have two identified successors and all successors have a development plan.”
You can read our list of responses from CHROs here.
Paige McGlauflin
paige.mcglauflin@fortune.com
@paidion
