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Meeting Details

Key Topics Discussed

  • Turn Well-Being into a Performance Advantage. PhRMA takes well-being beyond programs and benefits by addressing the workplace conditions that shape employee energy and performance. Greater clarity and trust help employees spend less energy navigating ambiguity and more energy delivering results.
  • Create a Clear Line of Sight from Strategy to Contribution. PhRMA’s Results-Driven Talent Management approach connects organizational priorities, role expectations, and talent practices so employees understand what they are accountable for and how their work contributes to business outcomes.
  • Make Role Clarity Accessible to Everyone. Through the PhRMA Accountability Matrix (PAM) and supporting job and competency frameworks, PhRMA gives employees and managers a shared language for expectations, contribution, and performance.
  • Build Trust Through Better Performance Conversations. Milestone Connect replaces the traditional mid-year review with more flexible, meaningful conversations designed to strengthen alignment and trust between managers and employees.
  • Listen for the Signals Behind the Data. Iyer encouraged HR leaders to pair employee survey data with observation, listening, and pattern recognition to identify where ambiguity, friction, or trust issues may be affecting the employee experience and organizational effectiveness.

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Next Practices Weekly welcomed Renuka Iyer, EVP and Chief People & Culture Officer, and Kylie Jameson, Deputy Vice President, People & Culture at PhRMA, for a timely executive conversation on a growing business imperative: creating stronger alignment between workforce strategy, employee well-being, and organizational performance. Iyer and Jameson shared how PhRMA is building a results-driven culture around three critical conditions for performance - well-being, clarity, and trust - and embedding those principles into the organization’s talent practices.

Moderated by i4cp’s Amber Burton and Tom Stone, the conversation offered senior HR leaders a practical look at how PhRMA connects business priorities to roles, expectations, performance, and employee experience. Through its Results-Driven Talent Management approach, PhRMA Accountability Matrix (PAM), and Milestone Connect conversations, the organization is reducing ambiguity, strengthening manager-employee relationships, and giving employees a clearer line of sight between their individual contributions and enterprise priorities.

For Human Capital leaders navigating rapid transformation, this session offers a compelling perspective on why workforce alignment and well-being can no longer be treated as separate priorities. Watch the recording to explore how PhRMA is creating the conditions for stronger performance - and why clarity, trust, and human capability will become even more valuable as AI continues to reshape work.

To ensure open discussion, this event was exclusively for HR practitioners. Vendors and consultants were not permitted to attend.