I know what you used to say to me and I always loved it. John M. Grogan is responsible for the strategy and performance of the company's insurance businesses. The key is then to figure out, How do you use the experiences that they will experience working for you and the things that they do every day to deliver for you but also deliver for them?, For example, if Im talking to somebody on my team and I know they want to eventually have my job and weve sat down and looked at the experiences that theyre going to need and the gaps that they have then every time we have a conversation, I can direct it to, This is something that you need to work on if youre going to do that someday. Ive never had an HR job. Lets turn it into that. /URI (https://news.northwesternmutual.com/2018-08-21-Northwestern-Mutual-Appoints-Don-Robertson-to-Senior-Vice-President-and-Chief-Human-Resources-Officer) I misread the situation. Im not talking about, I missed the deadline by a couple of days. Im talking about, especially in our function, you completely blew a tough conversation or you got yourself in trouble with somebody and ended up suing the company and you didnt handle it well. Schlifske joined Northwestern Mutual as an investment specialist and later led a variety of the company's investment operations as well as different parts of its business operations. I was too aggressive on that decision when I didnt need to make it for about another two weeks. One of the things I didnt add is the title of this show comes from the book, The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent. It has to be threaded in what you do. Thats what I try to get to, is get people to not give me those pat answers but they have to think from their experiences how they would operate. Youre right. How hard could they be? I remember we were interviewing you for the book and you had some tough questions. I wanted to soften the blow of that failure in my answer. I remember when you had to go present to Mark Hurd, you better be speaking at crisp. Somebody asked me, We talk in general terms about developing talent but do you have any specific tips as to how they would develop that talent? One of the things is we put such an emphasis that you have to develop your talent but many times, they dont see it from great leaders. When you get to work for great leaders, its a real gift in your career, and I certainly got to do that. Its a long story how I got into HR. Don was a huge contributor to that. Northwestern Mutual. 3 0 obj The reason for that question is youve been great at giving back and helping people along. You have to realize that you own a tremendous gift of their career in your hands. Some policies may not receive dividends in a particular year or years even while other policies receive dividends. How do you start getting there? The products and services referenced are offered and sold only by appropriately appointed and licensed entities and financial advisors and representatives. Our whole mantra on Northwestern Mutual is about helping our clients develop a financial plan and then we help them execute against that. Youre assembling A-players, and no doubt I walked into a bunch of A-players with the reputation of Northwestern Mutual. 4 0 obj Reggieyiane Robertson. Oftentimes, managers, frankly, theyve got their team. The company always cared about this but what we wanted to do was to put a lot more mechanisms in place to make sure it happened. Don is a catalyst of change within Northwestern Mutual, bringing a strategic mindset and a unique flair for identifying and developing talent to his role as CHRO. I had come up with a quote and my co-author, Mike, has me saying that at every speech we make that you ought to be treating your human capital with the same rigor, focus and discipline that you do your financial capital. When you now are that business person who knows HR and youre working with the business, especially coming from sales, talent is everything. /Pattern << Youve done all the things to get ready to make a first impression. We changed everything except for our core. I did the offers on both. The one thing I would tell myself at 22 is, Dont try to do it all by yourself. How did we do it? Ultimately, what we have to do as businesses is to get away from requisitions and more instead of creating talent pools. >> I know that much. It requires a level of expertise technologically, subject-matter experts and a number of different things. David Robertson is a Substitute School Bus Driver at Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District based in Jamesville, New York. Don J. Robertson is responsible for the company's employee experience and he leads the Human Resources organization, as well as teams that manage the company's campuses, events and employee digital experience. Life and disability insurance, annuities, and life insurance with long-term care benefits are issued by The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, WI (NM). MILWAUKEE, Aug. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwestern Mutual today announced the appointment of Don Robertson to senior vice president and chief human resources officer. In this role, Sippel leads an organization of more than 1,700 employees that are responsible for the company's technology architecture, infrastructure and cloud services, reliability, service support, and information risk and cybersecurity. Timothy J. Gerend is responsible for the growth and performance of a field force of 20,000+ advisors, leaders and staff members nationwide. Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google, Inc. Expert Adviser - Capital Portfolio Management at Transport for NSW for 11 months. ei(R5@gD)M4jv#UWBDx9{yBYjV'l jM">S]Uf1]5/U6My2}Jbi{\T0jnI1.z6qrHw67,.P\e2;Hu)LE*nZ FJ;fGS8bY;[34o}7nfBOsu;fF0>}j&gSqJ[*R^ Most recently, he headed HR at Apttus, a Silicon Valley start-up firm that provides software solutions for mid-sized and enterprise companies, Sutherland Global Services, and start-up firm TrueCar. What I tell managers all the time is, Your job is to be a talent multiplier. I tell employees, Your job is to own your career. You need to be clear as an employee, what it is you want to accomplish in your career, the path that you want to go down, the skills and capabilities that youre going to need to achieve that but your manager needs to work with you to chart out a path. I spent a number of years in what I would call the finance organizations, GE Capital is the name that most people would recognize, and then Stanford Research Institute, which was one of the great research institutes on tech. I started with them in the 80s. Those are a few of the nuggets in terms of what I might do differently. Give my best to the family. /Rect [34.5000000 120 553.500000 142.500000 ] It isnt just a case where the company gets what it needs from the employee. 8 0 obj If they dont like me and they dont value that and they dont see that Ive learned my lessons, this isnt the right place because theyre not hiring the real George and what I can deliver and what Ive experienced.. I brought too much ego to the table. Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (NM), Milwaukee, WI (life and disability insurance, annuities, and life insurance with long-term care benefits) and its subsidiaries. Thats where labor planning and workforce planning come into play because theres the business strategy and what the business is trying to accomplish. /Subtype /Link I dont think Im on email eighteen hours a day anymore. Dont shortcut how transparent you need to be with your employees about why youre doing what youre doing and as quickly as you can. /Type /Annot Im not going to give you the background on this amazing leader that he is the CHRO. Northwestern Mutual and its subsidiaries offer a comprehensive approach to financial security solutions including: life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability income insurance, annuities,lifeinsurance with long-term care benefits, investment products, and advisory products and services. Get on the phone. We were using BlueJeans at that time and she said exactly that. I love that because when I looked back and I came out as a fresh newly-minted officer, I went to Berlin. Don Robertson EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual 1 settimana Retired Chief Executive Officer MicroTek, Inc. Chairman, President and CEO The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. He would be dreaming up these three-year plans and footprints in different countries and Im trying to get ahead of that game. Two additional senior leadership appointments include: Evamarie Schoenborn was named president. Don Robertson has been working as a Executive VP & Chief Human Resources Officer at Northwestern Mutual for 5 years. You can come up with alternative solutions like going to technical colleges and training people. Weve married up, which was not expected of us. 10 0 obj If they do that, it means the person is performing. I have failed numerous times in my career. One of the big things about the book is you dont realize how valuable that HR can be and how critical it is. Once youve done it after a week or two in that same location, all of a sudden, you start to master it. Were you like me at that moment where theyre talking to you about HR and youre thinking, Did I do something wrong? . 5 0 obj They have more energy than the two of us put together, which is frightening. How can you assure that you have the best talent for your company? Best Talent: We are in a talent war. >> If people were going to tap dance on a question, its usually the weakness question, the failure or whatever form that that comes in. /Contents 12 0 R If you're in the business of constantly having to acquire talent, because you're losing them, you're going to eventually fall behind. There are two sides to this coin. /F6 6 0 R You got to go back and tell Don, 22 years old, after so many years of great wins and failures that you learned from, all of those things. I dont think its that unique. I have two last questions. I was like, I could do that. I got to slide two and I got pummeled. Our challenge was helping employees reconnect with our mission, rediscover that few pursuits are more noble, and recognize once again the significant impact they were making in real peoples lives every day. ES had $22 billion annual revenue and 110,000 employees. Don Robertson is the Chief HR Officer for Northwestern Mutual. Don Robertson EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual 1w #G0,qG0'Pcy Pc9NrQZcZ;Dgg;Q:!~0rrZ\ I was talking to a big client. Im talking about some significant stuff because most people that Im going to be interviewing with have had those kinds of things. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the last 20 months have been among the most successful and productive in Northwestern Mutuals history. /Type /ExtGState Im going to give them both to you in advance because its not a got you. /Filter /FlateDecode You can always hire externally but you also can build internal marketplaces. /URI (http://www.prnewswire.com/) The more of those experiences that youve had, especially unconventionally, the more that I can get confidence in how youre going to think and operate. Where do they want to go? You remember the old days when the company would sell a product and then they would try to bolt on the services as an afterthought. /Rect [34.5000000 465 129 475.500000 ] Ive tried a lot of different techniques over the years. 1 of the 2 of them was incessant. You have to approach the folks that youre privileged to have worked for you. Email . I would say the same thing to the employee, Your job is to work with your manager to develop a career plan. I can show you hypertext from Windows and other things from the 1950s. The gist of it was this was right around the time when the HR function was starting to realize as a function that they needed to have people that understood the business as well as understanding the domain of HR. I was up in Dallas and I said, There are so many people that do approach it as a bolt-on. How would you make it work? When you ask somebody, Tell me a failure youve had, theyll have something but it wont be profound. All right. ,,0 XA`@Z>\8)Uj3OtsFz2'4B bK;X&,= iK"0jDaJPbpMZ6kQ; # One of the reasons that I have the attitude about is because I was fortunate enough to work with one of the great talent multipliers of all time in business, Jack Welch in GE. How much importance do you place on digging into a potential or a candidate who has failed? Don Robertson is an Executive Vice President and the Chief Human Resources Officer of Northwestern Mutual a $30 billion in revenue, Fortune 90 financial services company; the largest U.S. provider of individual life insurance; and manager of more than $290.3 billion in policyholder assets. Tracy taught me a lot about interacting with boards at the board level and those levels. /Type /Annot Copyright 2023 The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, WI. Heres the first thing for leaders to keep in mind: if you want to grow employee engagement and organizational health in a short time, start with a great company and a virtuous vision. Georgia Public Defender Council. *Based on Northwestern Mutual internal data, not applicable exclusively to disability insurance products. Join Facebook to connect with Don Robertson and others you may know. [ 8 0 R 9 0 R 10 0 R ] Unbelievable. You are the only person I knew that viewed it as an ecosystem. /ca 1.0 Previously Don was the Chief People Officer of Apttus. And we launched a new talent navigator tool, enabling our employees to sit down and visualize where they want to go in their careers. Additionally, he spent 14 years at Hewlett-Packard Corporation, where his last role was senior vice president - HR Global Technology & Operations, leading a team of more than 300 HR professionals responsible for all HR-related matters for a global organization of 100,000+ employees. To be able to support as an HR leader for a function that you come from gives you an innate ability to understand the function in a way that, frankly, if you had never been in it, you wouldnt understand. I knew that if we were very intentional about what we were trying to do then we would mechanize all the pieces in place underneath it to make it happen. Subsidiaries includeNorthwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC(NMIS) (securities), broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, member FINRA and SIPC; the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (NMWMC) (fiduciary and fee-based financial planning services), federal savings bank; and Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company (NLTC) (long-term care insurance). 2 Ranking for Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC. One of the most difficult things to help businesses understand is that the faster you can recognize what you need from a talent standpoint and put your talent on that, the faster you can accelerate your priorities. Extremely gratifying to see Northwestern Mutual selected by Forbes as one of America's Best Large Employers. How do you look at that? I try to tell it in a holistic way, Its not just to benefit you now. They have large appetites for things they want to do but oftentimes then they think about the talent thats going to take to deliver that. What do they want to be?, Its not what they want to be when they grow up because its not about a specific job, Do you want to be a senior leader? Youve read it here, guys, definitive proof. Get to know your talent down in the organization because theres an incredible amount of talent down there. Why do you want me in HR? That was my first thought but like Ive said a bunch of times on this show and with the clients that I work with, that was a gift that I didnt see coming when my career turned to HR. Nobody achieves things in life without the help of a number of folks. Its the ultimate compliment. I remember you were telling me about the people that I was going to interview. Aditi Javeri Gokhale holds executive accountabilities for the company's strategy to drive growth, competitiveness, and relevance. Download our app for fast, easy, and secure access to your accounts and moreanytime, anywhere. Were pretty close to the same age, although I stopped counting at 50. I was like, I dont have to worry. John E. Schlifske is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Northwestern Mutual, and is a member of the Board of Trustees. /Creator ( w k h t m l t o p d f 0 . A lot of the ways I test your intellect are the way you answer questions, the vocabulary you use and the way you think because I cant make you smart. Don also serves on the Boards of Directors for the Northwestern Mutual Foundation, Wisconsin Humane Society, and the Milwaukee Public Museum. Before Sutherland he was SVP of HR for HP Enterprise Services. You cannot townhall your way to change management. Robertson joins Northwestern Mutual after serving in human resources leadership roles at companies ranging from Fortune 50s to maturing start-ups. Yes, correct. Let me digress a little bit. We need to figure out a way to get you this experience. The next thing you know, theyre jumping at something when you probably could have had great opportunities for them had you been intentional about it. There are a lot of companies that dont do that, that talent is an afterthought. The people leaders have to be an extension of the leadership teams. There are some underlying things Im looking for. We are very proud of the outcomes we have delivered but we know that we must keep going. Therefore, you become an environment thats known as developing talent. . You must have had an entirely different eye on that talent as compared to your normal recruiting talent acquisition and HR business partner. Your manager's job is to help you achieve that. You can start to build internal processes so you can develop. I was in sales before I went into HR. You are taking five slides to say what you could say in one. It was when Nancy was the Head of Enterprise Services at that time and I was preparing a deck. << Were going to focus on the defense and the offense. /ColorSpace << subsidiaries. Email . Awards Conference & Dinner in NYC - one of the year's premier I had not done HR strategy but I had all the attributes. People arent going to generally tell you, I got fired for X.. I try to get to know the person at an authentic level. Did anybody come to mind who invested in you and your career and giving you good advice? All Rights Reserved. One thing I would tell you is to be a lot more humble and willing to listen to other peoples points of view. Phone . Thats the one advantage of not being with a crazy tech company. Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and its They have their top talent and they dont want to let them go because they cant think of, How am I going to succeed without that top talent? What you have to become is more of a thought about, Your job is not to just deliver on what youre doing now, but to develop people for the future and elevating in the organization.. Did you have to start to change mindsets about how they looked at great people? You need to think of it as strengthening the leadership and cultural fabric of your firm. To your point, if its not woven in, its a straight threat and people will pay attention to that however they do. Executive VP & Chief Human Resources Officer . You can get this kind of exposure because this person is going to be a key decision-maker on whether or not you could do that someday. /SM 0.02 Are there certain things that you hold dear that are in your muscle memory that, If Im developing somebody, these are the things Im going to do?, Its something that a lot of people leaders could benefit from understanding. MILWAUKEE, Aug. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwestern Mutual today announced the appointment of Don Robertson to senior vice president and chief h. I made the wrong call. Oftentimes, companies are simply thinking about the talent they need to deliver for them but if they dont create an environment that allows the employee to benefit from that experience and grow and develop, youre not going to develop and grow your talent. If you become a company thats known to develop and grow talent and create opportunities for talent to develop and grow, youre going to attract more of them. Its interesting that you say that youre a business person doing HR because I dont remember whether it was Tracy Keogh or Meg Whitman. These were some capable people. It has to be threaded in your mainstream of what you do for talent. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance is a financial services company that provides its clients various insurance options and investment opportunities. Believe it or not, I have lost every bit of sanity and Mike Cirelli talked me into a book too, which well probably be talking to you about your sin. Best Talent: If you become a company thats known to develop and grow talent and create opportunities for talent to develop and grow, youre going to attract more of them. I had fewer pointers there. If I get back in the game, Im giving you a call. Legal Assistant . Jonathan Robertson works at SLB, which is an Electricity, Oil & Gas company with an estimated 34755 employees. 3316 Bee Cave Road, Ste DAustin, TX 78746, Copyright talentwargroup.com 2023 | All Rights Reserved. /A << Could you imagine Bill Belichick andy Reid or Bruce Arians who said, Special teams arent important. Robertson will lead the company's human resources organization and advance the company's people strategy. Thats the best intro I could give to somebody who has been a friend, coach, mentor and a hell of a boss. My first thought was to throw my chest out, yell louder and I would lead with ego. Don Robertson is the Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, and a member of the Senior Leadership Team of Northwestern Mutual - a $30+ billion, Fortune 100 financial . Phone . MILWAUKEE, Aug. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwestern Mutual today announced the appointment of Don Robertson to senior vice president and chief human resources officer. If you didnt come from the business, you would better be a student of. Search for specific advisors, products, services, articles, etc. The more window you have that you allow yourself to have to what youre going to need from talent, the faster you can start to deliver on your business strategies. Neal Sample is now chief information officer. endobj I said, Okay. She was like, I want to see this. I gave it to Caroline. /Type /Action The final question before I close out is if you could go back and tell 22-year-old accounting finance, Don Robertson, what to do differently that would have accelerated your career, made your career easier, made it better and allowed you to take care of more people, what would that advice be? What are the strategies? /CreationDate (D:20230418075228-04'00') In addition, she leads teams that oversee more than $570 billion in company and client assets. m+LbPcByzbZ8&@eZre|(wa"A+mc1aDM~_Y#]l$0h+4qm{=9,s}sa^o{{sx]%6\pltk[;:ca$-`\k=O>+Ists:R.xesO{N'Z^5 P`lWwliLi8 7|Oj"4O 0`x >YLAep)^/Y=6P c j.qA\90jV!!`X fx?"$XN Phone . 7) Theres finance on what you can afford and then theres the talent that youre going to need to deliver that. I did this thing and I screwed up. { d[-Xy7bx"zIuQ6MnCFk?0n^t0nV0}P\wT+1p;{nu(Vo,.e+!ajAu \vj3Y'#Tqf$i8wy_mn-gKU>$rY_ lBQ#qz5g:0|v64Ia\q(CA2`m=D^"aDtG)1c/d,XW3j"2 ciQgyIRbJQ)U#K&m2j[va The one thing Ive learned is if you dont give them the information, theyll fill it in with things. Fortunately, Ive had opportunities to resurrect. Robertson is probably best known for his trio of novels featuring Morris Bird III: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread, The Sum and Total of Now, and The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened.A movie adaptation of The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened aired on NBC in 1977, starring . /GSa 3 0 R What is the workforce planning? I remember working with Maneesh. Before Apttus Don was the CHRO for Sutherland Global Services. I have tried to model that from all of the leaders like you and the generals, Tracy, Caroline, Tom and a whole bunch of people that Ive worked with over the years. I know its got to play in how you approach things. Northwestern Mutual and its subsidiaries offer a comprehensive approach to financial security solutions including: life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability income insurance, annuities,lifeinsurance with long-term care benefits, investment products, and advisory products and services. I learned that from going to Mark. The one that Ive landed on that works best is I start the question by describing a failure that Ive had. Youre not going to keep them. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience to help our clients navigate their financial lives every day. If youre in the business of constantly having to acquire talent because youre losing them or youre not attracting them, youre going to eventually fall behind, whether its in how quickly you do things, the quality of what you do or the ideas you come up with. It cannot be a separate thing. The reason why I ask a lot of different questions in a lot of different ways is Im trying to understand your intellect. /S /URI >> Every single person that works for me, every time I interact with them, Im always thinking in the back of my head, She wants that job. The one thing I would tell myself early in my career is to be a lot more willing to get a lot of smart people together to come up with ideas. Ive been asked it in so many different ways. Best Talent: Businesses have large appetites for things they want to do, but oftentimes then they dont think about the talent thats going to take to deliver that. Investment brokerage services provided as a Registered Representative of NMIS . Its not just acquiring the right talent. See Profile. Georgia Public Defender Council. Ive had the great fortune of having some amazing guests. Im going to put you on this project so you can build some of that. One is Im looking for, What difficulty or adversity have you dealt with in your life? I believe if people have dealt with those things, theyre going to be much better equipped to be able to describe how they did it. Not all Northwestern Mutual representatives are advisors. endobj We put in a whole new talent management process and offered coaching for each of our managers on how to have effective career and development conversations with their team members. Sources: Financial Advisor and InvestmentNews, April 2021, Financial Planning, August 2021. /Type /Action Ray also oversees the Northwestern Mutual Foundation and strategic philanthropy efforts. << Do you think I show five slides to Tracy, Meg or whomever? I was like, No, Caroline. Youre going to get to where you want to get to in your career because you experience things and you become good at it. Any company that has the reputation and ability to be a talent engine is going to do a great job of recruiting and developing talent. Its great to be here. Cision Distribution 888-776-0942 /A << /Type /Catalog Thats what I tell leaders. You know how to get to work every day. Get Contact Info for All Departments Northwestern Mutual Org Chart by Seniority Marketing (509) Lee Hurley I like to say that Al Gore did not discover the internet but SRI did. Products and services referenced are offered and sold only by appropriately appointed and licensed entities and financial advisors and professionals. They proceeded me but it was one of the greatest turns. Talent pools are things that youre trying to accomplish. She took me and made me the Head of HR for HR when I had no business. /Producer ( Q t 4 . To learn more about Northwestern Mutual, visit NM.com. Northwestern Mutual Recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Large Employers I dont know if he listened to me. I cant thank you enough for all that youve done for me, helping us with the book and then taking time out of your day-to-day. >> We have a great company driving unprecedented results with exceptional talent who are deeply engaged in our mission. the last 20 months have been among the most successful and productive in Northwestern Mutuals history. The mechanisms to create that in how we promote, retain, acquire and develop are all consistent. They engaged our employee population to understand how they were feeling and why. They dont need an adjective and a title. Raymond J. Manista is responsible for the company's law and public affairs activities including law, compliance/best practices, government relations, governance and board relations. The team that youve got there, I know its Kelly. Im in the gym five days a week. 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