Making the Case: How HR Leaders Can Secure Strategic Investments for Their Teams
HR leaders play a crucial role in shaping workplace culture, employee experience, and organizational success. However, securing executive buy-in for strategic HR investments—whether it’s technology, training, or talent initiatives—can be a challenge.
There are proven approaches to help HR professionals build compelling business cases, align HR needs with agency and departmental goals, and effectively communicate ROI to key decision-makers. Providing C-suite executives with tangible examples of benefits, from attracting more – and more qualified – applicants to demonstrating how learning and development can save your agency money and retain the strongest employees, gives them the information they need to decide to invest.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the ways to align your investment requirements with the mission of the agency
- Build a framework to map investment and benefits against current costs and outcomes
- Identify the most important metrics that can show agency decision-makers quantifiable outcomes and benefits
Speaker Details

Dr. Ronald Sanders
Senior Fellow,
CEPL,
The George Washington University

Samantha Ross
Account Director, State & Local Government,
North East,

Michael Kennedy
Contributing Editor,
FedInsider
Event Topic
Employee Training & Development, Technology, Human ResourcesRelevant Audiences
All State and Local Government, All Federal Government, National Guard, Air Force, Coast Guard, Navy, City Government, County Government, Municipalities, State Government, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Interior, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of State, Department of Transportation, Department of the Treasury, Environmental Protection Agency, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, Food and Drug Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, General Services Administration, Government Accountability Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institute of Health, National Security Agency, U.S. Agency of International Development, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, U.S. Postal Service, Veterans AffairsOther Agency
Office of the President (includes OMB), Other Federal Agencies, Judicial Branch Agencies, Foreign Governments/Agencies