HR keynote speaker
Algorithms can sort résumés. Only people build a place others choose to stay.
Real rooms. Real people. Real change.
Everyone now has the same AI, the same data and the same tools.
The only difference left is your people.
Your people teams now run AI screening, skills platforms and engagement analytics, while also handling burnout, return-to-office debates and managers who were never trained to manage.
The technology is the easy part. Keeping people who could leave tomorrow is not.
Candidates apply with AI-written résumés and get screened by AI-driven systems. Somewhere in the middle, both sides forget there is a person on the other end.
Every tough conversation lands on the HR business partner’s desk. HR cannot be the only human side of the company.
Employees judge your culture by their first day, their first one-on-one and the way bad news is delivered. Policies don’t create those moments; people do.
HR and people teams that trusted me, among others
One is about their own profession. The other is about the people they serve.
Will a machine do my job?
The better the machines get, the more your people will set you apart.
Why it lands with HR audiences: HR is often the first function asked to roll out AI and the last one allowed to forget it serves humans. Forever Human gives people leaders the language to champion technology while protecting what only humans can do in hiring, coaching and culture.
Why does someone else get chosen?
What your people know rarely gets them chosen. What others see in them does.
Why it lands with HR audiences: every candidate, employee and manager is constantly deciding whom to trust and whether to stay. The Power of Choice helps HR professionals, and the managers they support, become the people others choose to work for.
I worked in HR and led a corporate management academy long before I gave a keynote. I know the budget fights, the restructuring announcements and the feeling of being the conscience of the company.
I booked speakers for my own programs, so I know what an HR team needs from one: easy preparation, no surprises and content managers still use a month later.
Together with your team, I map what your HR leaders face before the event, from retention and hiring to AI adoption or whatever keeps them up at night, and build the keynote around it.
I can open a SHRM state or chapter conference, close an HR leadership summit or pair a keynote with a workshop at your HR team retreat, in person or virtual. For the people leaders’ offsite that should still be discussed at the next talent review, I bring the 3D immersive version.
HR audiences are tough critics because they hear a lot of speakers. They want substance they can take back to the business.
No slides, no pre-recorded hologram beamed in from somewhere else.
I stay live in the room while your leaders, sponsors and theme step into the story.
How clients describe it, in their own words.
How clients make it their own.
I know this room from the inside, because for nearly twenty years it was my room.
I’m Sylvie di Giusto. Before I became a speaker, I spent nearly two decades in HR and leadership development, last as educator and head of the management academy of Europe’s largest retail and tourism group. I hired, trained, developed people and, yes, booked the speakers. Today I’m a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame keynote speaker, and HR rooms feel like coming home. Among others, SHRM, IPMA-HR, NYC Human Resources or Adecco trusted me with their people. I know HR professionals rarely get a session that is about them rather than their next compliance update. I make sure this one is.
In their words, not ours.
To date, Sylvie was the highest-rated speaker and attendees still talk about her and how they can further connect with her.
Her enthusiasm and passion along with her experience in the industry will be a benefit to your organization and employees.
Sylvie is highly knowledgeable in her area of expertise, personable, and engaging. The amount of positive feedback I received after the presentation was incredible! To top it off, Sylvie was flexible with our scheduling demands which made it all the more pleasant to work with her.
Sylvie was a pleasure to work with from the very start. She was responsive, well priced and accommodating to come into the office and meet with our team a few times. She exemplifies the characteristics that she teaches.
I have seen other speakers who weren’t quite able to rise to the very challenging occasion of speaking to a crowd of CFS employees after their long night of celebration, and you absolutely knocked it out of the park. It was such an energizing, engaging, and memorable way to wrap up this year’s annual meeting.
Sylvie was absolutely delightful as she embraced, engaged and empowered the AutoZone team during her International Women’s Week keynote presentation. She developed an instant connection and kept her audience captivated. She was responsive, well-organized and took the time to prepare well in advance, which included visiting an AutoZone store! We would highly recommend Sylvie; she has set the bar high.
My keynote The Power of Choice is based on The Image of Leadership, which explains how people decide in seconds whom to trust, hire, follow and stay with. For HR, that is the daily reality of recruiting and retention.
Its five dimensions (appearance, behavior, communication, digital presence and environment) translate easily into onboarding, manager development and employer branding. Clients sometimes give a copy to every attendee so their HR teams can build on it.
HR is asked to roll out AI screening, chatbots and analytics while protecting the humans those tools affect. Forever Human gives people leaders a clear line between what the system can sort and what a person must decide.
Readers take away language for hiring, coaching and culture conversations that keeps judgment and fairness in human hands. Many HR conferences give every attendee a copy, so the ideas shape the next hiring decision and the next coaching conversation.
Sylvie di Giusto is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame keynote speaker who spent nearly two decades in HR and leadership development before she started speaking. SHRM, IPMA-HR or NYC Human Resources trusted her, among others, and she speaks to HR audiences about AI, trust and retention.
Forever Human fits HR events focused on AI in hiring, automation and the future of the HR role. The Power of Choice fits events focused on retention, culture, employer brand and manager effectiveness. Both are customized to your HR community.
Yes. Sylvie di Giusto spent nearly two decades in corporate HR and leadership development, including leading the management academy of Europe’s largest retail and tourism group. Her keynotes draw on that inside experience rather than on HR seen from the outside.
Yes. Sylvie’s Forever Human keynote looks at where AI helps HR (screening, scheduling, analytics) and where human judgment must stay in charge, such as hiring decisions, difficult conversations and culture.
Yes. Public sector HR organizations such as IPMA-HR, NYC Human Resources or AASPA trusted her, among others. She adapts her examples to government workplaces, civil service realities and public trust.
Often it can, depending on your event. Recertification credit is typically applied for by the event organizer, and Sylvie’s team can provide learning objectives and a session description to support your application.
Yes. Both keynotes are available virtual or hybrid, which works well for HR networks spread across regions, and in person, including the 3D immersive keynote.
I also serve audiences in future of work, leadership and government. See every audience I speak to.
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