Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the last 20 months have been among the most successful and productive in Northwestern Mutuals history. 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. Dont think you have them all yourself. How much importance do you place on digging into a potential or a candidate who has failed? What are some of the things you wish you would have knocked out of your head much earlier on that you would share with people who look at you, look at me and look at a lot of the people on your team and my team and say, I want to rise to that level at some point. Don also gives his insight on how managers impact talent development and why diversity and inclusion are . Don Robertson EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual 1 semana Before Apttus Don was the CHRO for Sutherland Global Services. The reason why I ask a lot of different questions in a lot of different ways is Im trying to understand your intellect. 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. It isnt just a case where the company gets what it needs from the employee. We want to get you the right exposure., What I like to call it is career conversations with an intention. Reggieyiane Robertson. Ive had the great fortune of having some amazing guests. Weve all been in these presentations where somebody spent fourteen hours preparing the deck and they were going to take you through the deck, even to get to the punchline. Its a skill Ive developed now but it wasnt one I had in most of my career and it would have benefited me tremendously. /Subtype /Link I was thinking of the great Caroline Atherton, if you remember her. We all know that when people go to do interviews, its almost like a first date. I was too aggressive on that decision when I didnt need to make it for about another two weeks. Here at Northwestern Mutual, we built and now consistently maintain 80%+ employee engagement levels across all our business units, across genders, across race, across tenure and more. >> endobj /GSa 3 0 R >> 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. All of those things that youre crystallizing are all the things that you gave to me when I was in my role. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. The people leaders have to be an extension of the leadership teams. I understood organizations org design and how to deliver to the business. /XObject << Don Robertson EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual Published Jan 26, 2022 + Follow During this "Great Reshuffling" era marked by workforce shortages across industries, it's never. You think youve got it all figured out. Build those key relationships early.. Outside of the talent acquisition space and creating talent pools, what do you say to the up-and-coming managers or the newly-minted managers or supervisors, people that are now in charge of developing others? 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. /URI (http://www.prnewswire.com/) "Don is a seasoned business leader who has delivered strong results at both digital and blue-chip companies," said John Schlifske, chairman and CEO, Northwestern Mutual. See Profile. 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. Its no coincidence that the best talent generally works for the best companies and best leaders. Thank you for your leadership, Don! Best Talent: Youre not going to get to where you want to get to in your career because youre going to get trained. As a result of that, we need to do a lot of technological builds and other things client-wise. Now that companies are allowing much more flexibility and remote capabilities, youre going to have a challenge that anyone anywhere in the world can recruit your talent. Phone . I love it when my son tells me, Do you dont understand, dad? Im like, I dont. There are a lot of things you can learn by getting together people. When I was working with you, talent was always on my brain, How are we doing it? There are the talent strategies in between those two of how youre going to address it. We need to figure out a way to get you this experience. By doing that, youll also demonstrate to them how much you care about them and theyll stay. Youre playing catch-up to try to change it around. >> Don Robertson, Vice President, Human Resources | Master Problem Solver, Status Quo Disruptor, Fearless Challenge Defier, Resilient Change Leader. 1 2 . 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. Driving and sustaining high employee engagement is essential to recruiting and retaining top talent but achieving that outcome is easier said than done. Tracy taught me a lot about interacting with boards at the board level and those levels. I hit 60, believe it or not, in June 2021. /S /URI /Rect [171.750000 684 226.500000 694.500000 ] My first thought was to throw my chest out, yell louder and I would lead with ego. /A << Weve married up, which was not expected of us. You need to institutionalize the way you do your talent so that diversity is at the forefront of anything you do. Neal Sample is now chief information officer. Its either you have it or you dont. She believed in me when I was coming out of the business into HR. /F6 6 0 R Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach, we empower our clients to make the most of every single day and plan for important moments in their future. The biggest thing when I think about diversity is it cant be a bolt-on. Its incredible to me how often companies dont think about that and how often they dont spend time with their people managers, helping their people managers understand what theyre expected to do, what they need to do and spend time talking to them. Give my best to the family. Unless theyre right out of college, theyre lying because I dont know anyone that has gone through life and never had a failure. We had pages and pages. Phone . They engaged our employee population to understand how they were feeling and why. Im looking for somebody who has good energy because what we do is not easy and you need to have the energy, resilience and perseverance. She makes me leave the phone in another room when were sleeping. Extremely gratifying to see Northwestern Mutual selected by Forbes as one of America's Best Large Employers. To learn more about Northwestern Mutual, visit NM.com. This goes without saying, Whoever has the best talent is generally going to win. We are in a talent war. Do you want to be in this area? Every conversation I have with that person is to help them achieve that. We changed the way we interview. Email . One of the statistics we came up with is that CHROs are paid 1/3 less than their C-Suite counterparts. Im going to give her that feedback. When she is making this presentation to me, I know its a good presentation for her level but if she wants to be at my level, she is going to get questions asked this way or that way. With $265.0 billionin assets, $28.1 billionin revenues, and $1.8 trillionworth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to 4.5 million people who rely on us for life, disabilityincomeand long-term care insurance, annuities, brokerage and advisory services, trust services, and discretionary portfolio management solutions. I had fewer pointers there. Don Robertson is the Chief HR Officer for Northwestern Mutual. One of the things when I came here, I was good at what I did but when I got here, I realized that there are still probably some smart people here. Its a long story how I got into HR. If I never got off of it, that was fine. It brought me crossing paths with you and Tracy Keogh. We changed everything except for our core. Jeff Sippel is executive vice president and Chief Information Officer of Northwestern Mutual. But this wasn't the case at Northwestern Mutual. I have two last questions. I wanted to soften the blow of that failure in my answer. /Type /Action /Type /Action Ive tried a lot of different techniques over the years. They proceeded me but it was one of the greatest turns. You must have had an entirely different eye on that talent as compared to your normal recruiting talent acquisition and HR business partner. I remember you were telling me about the people that I was going to interview. 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. Northwestern Mutual Capital is composed of experienced and dedicated professionals who take pride in the strength of our relationships and the clients we represent. See Profile. With Karen Clark, #039: Interviewing Candidates Without A Resume. Its interesting that you say that youre a business person doing HR because I dont remember whether it was Tracy Keogh or Meg Whitman. It wasnt my first exposure to HR. Were very data-driven. Ill give you due credit and make sure that you share your own first. "Don is a seasoned business leader who has delivered strong results at . How do I get there faster, better and easier? What would you tell yourself? 3 0 obj It cannot be a separate thing. Jonathan Robertson works at SLB, which is an Electricity, Oil & Gas company with an estimated 34755 employees. Get to know your talent down in the organization because theres an incredible amount of talent down there. Aditi Javeri Gokhale holds executive accountabilities for the company's strategy to drive growth, competitiveness, and relevance. Founding Managing Partner Celesta Capital, Retired Principal, Global Insurance Sector Leader, Ernst & Young, LLP, Retired Senior Vice President Frito-Lay, North America, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, General Mills, Chief Executive Officer Groupware Technologies. If your mission and vision are motivators, and your company has the capacity to meaningfully change the world for the better you have a foundation to recruit, retain, develop, and inspire your talent. David Robertson is a Substitute School Bus Driver at Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District based in Jamesville, New York. There are some underlying things Im looking for. Were pretty close to the same age, although I stopped counting at 50. Northwestern Mutual ranks 104 on the 2018 FORTUNE 500 and is recognized by FORTUNE as one of the "World's Most Admired" life insurance companies in 2018. Email . The products and services referenced are offered and sold only by appropriately appointed and licensed entities and financial advisors and representatives. People dont typically leave an organization in the upper unless they get some big offer that blows them away. /A << It has to be threaded in what you do. 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. This is a people business, and I can't think of a | 17 comments on LinkedIn Don Robertson on LinkedIn: Northwestern Mutual Recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Large | 17 comments Theres finance on what you can afford and then theres the talent that youre going to need to deliver that. >> If you allow yourself as a company to be vulnerable, honest, open and transparent with your employees, they will be much more willing to work with you and wait for you. Best Talent: Diversity and inclusion cannot be a hobby. 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. >> Anything else was open for experimentation and enhancement and we went all in. /SA true /Filter /FlateDecode The reason for that question is youve been great at giving back and helping people along. People arent going to generally tell you, I got fired for X.. Phone . Did you have to start to change mindsets about how they looked at great people? Thats true but I dont ever remember sending you an email or a text that wasnt instantaneously received and I was anywhere on the globe at that time. . << Not all Northwestern Mutual representatives are advisors. 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. Not all products and services are available in all states. Retired Senior Vice President Chief Information and Digital Officer, Eli Lilly and Company. I remember that one of the things that imprinted on me early in my career was they used to evaluate senior leaders not just by the business performance but also by how many people are now in leadership positions across the organization that used to work for that person. Don Robertson EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual 1w Myrna brought up this point about diversity that she wanted to coach leaders on, which was to be deliberate about diversity. As we refined our culture and our offerings to align with our new employee value proposition, we also started measuring in a much more thoughtful and thorough way. Did anybody come to mind who invested in you and your career and giving you good advice? I could give you the standard things with leadership, Be honest and humble, but I thought I would try to give you things that were a little bit unique, maybe to some of the experiences. endobj Northwestern Mutual. "Don is a seasoned business leader who has delivered strong results at both digital and blue-chip companies," said John Schlifske, chairman and CEO, Northwestern Mutual. Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and its We reconfigured our leadership structure. /Length 13 0 R Im going to put you on this project so you can build some of that. I can teach you a lot of things but I cant teach you intelligence. When you get to work for great leaders, its a real gift in your career, and I certainly got to do that. I like to think of it as our talent management approach has to have the DNI lens pulled through it. endobj Retired Chief Executive Officer MicroTek, Inc. Chairman, President and CEO The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. I survived to fight another day, as they say. I got my CPA with Deloitte way back. In this episode, George Randle sits down for an insightful interview with EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual, Don Robertson. It has got to be in the right location. 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. /Resources 14 0 R Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and its subsidiaries. Businesses live and die on the quality of their talent. I was up in Dallas and I said, There are so many people that do approach it as a bolt-on. When I was in finance roles, a few times, I had HR reporting to me. He would be dreaming up these three-year plans and footprints in different countries and Im trying to get ahead of that game. >> Marcela was somebody who believed in me and Bina Chaurasia on her team. You have to realize that you own a tremendous gift of their career in your hands. Maybe it might be good to pick their brains for some ideas as well. Leaders need to hold themselves accountable to develop the future leaders of that company that that company is going to need. I dont think Im on email eighteen hours a day anymore. 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. Email . $1 .PP]BT~|h}&~MXQ+{f>}edeaV5[f:WJj. I advised him to do the same. I owe her a tremendous amount. What would you recommend to the small to medium business that wants to be a Northwestern Mutual and the A-player on the block and leading the industry? 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. Don also serves on the Boards of Directors for the Northwestern Mutual Foundation, Wisconsin Humane Society, and the Milwaukee Public Museum. Anytime were doing slating or talent management, its got to have that DNI lens then and there, not afterward and you dont like the outcomes and you try to go back and reconstruct something. /Contents 12 0 R Don G Robinson Financial Representative . Sources: Financial Advisor and InvestmentNews, April 2021, Financial Planning, August 2021. x][~s]^}lCHAC~)qH}CpIs9;;;||G]y,ySg7v'_h?,M7u&U)iPO4_jm~nA You and I both used to do services business. Nothing fuels business more that highly engaged people who support it. To me, if you dont have your people managers on board with what youre trying to do, if youre in any kind of company where youve got a large organization, youre not going to communicate effectively to the people on the ground. Two additional senior leadership appointments include: Evamarie Schoenborn was named president. Whats your particular view? Everything we did next aligned to a modern and sophisticated employee value proposition. You know the route you take but if I took you and dropped you in the middle of the Amazon with a car on the other side of the road and told you to go to X, you still know how to drive a car and read a map but youre not going to be as good at it. 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. All right. I dont know at what point. I make it okay to talk about a real failure because we all get these questions, Tell me something that didnt work. << #G0,qG0'Pcy Pc9NrQZcZ;Dgg;Q:!~0rrZ\ endobj We changed the way we communicate with our employee population. If you didnt come from the business, you would better be a student of. Youve read it here, guys, definitive proof. There was nothing about the companys mission helping Americans make smart financial choices so their goals arent left to chance that needed to be fixed. On the contrary, a strong foundation was already in place one built over the companys storied 164-year history. Legal Assistant . /Type /Catalog /A << We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience to help our clients navigate their financial lives every day. Theres nothing on paper that would have said that I should have been the Head of HR for HR. 3316 Bee Cave Road, Ste DAustin, TX 78746, Copyright talentwargroup.com 2023 | All Rights Reserved. How would you make it work? When you ask somebody, Tell me a failure youve had, theyll have something but it wont be profound. 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 remember when you had to go present to Mark Hurd, you better be speaking at crisp. I had a major pull me aside and he said, Be good, be brief, be gone. That was it. /CreationDate (D:20230418075228-04'00') I have failed numerous times in my career. /Type /Page When they first approached me on it, it was predominantly because HP at that time was having some challenges in how they were doing sales, sales development, learning new development and Cisco was cleaning their clock. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance is a financial services company that provides its clients various insurance options and investment opportunities. They think thats an ego-based statement but Im like, If you saw where I came from, you would know how true of a statement that is. I dont know if I got married out of love or sympathy but it worked out in my favor. /F7 7 0 R What would you say to companies that dont put talent first? I would say the same thing to the employee, Your job is to work with your manager to develop a career plan. I like to say that Al Gore did not discover the internet but SRI did. { 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 If you learn early in your career how to influence those kinds of people or at least how to understand them better so you can speak a common language, its a very powerful thing. 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). 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. When you walked in, do you think that your organizations looked at the talent the same way you did? The best piece of advice I ever got was when you go to present to a CEO or a board, put the most important stuff on the first slide because you may not get off of that slide. Its just leaders are leaders. I had the good fortune to work with you and for you twice. A key strategic advisor to the CEO, Mike is chair of the company's Senior Leadership Team and has oversight of the enterprise Quarterly Business Review (QBR) and Sustained Funding process. I wish I could remember but it was like, They need to see the authentic me. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience to help our clients navigate their financial lives every day. I was always picking up something good. John M. Grogan is responsible for the strategy and performance of the company's insurance businesses. In this episode of Redefining HR, I spoke with Northwestern Mutual Executive Vice President and Chief HR Officer Don Robertson. MILWAUKEE, Aug. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwestern Mutual today announced the appointment of Don Robertson to senior vice president and chief h. Dont shortcut how transparent you need to be with your employees about why youre doing what youre doing and as quickly as you can. Before that, three great leadership pearls of wisdom? People Also . 8 . Business leaders, John Hinshaw, Mike Nefkens, Meg and Mark Hurd. 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. Don Robertson (March 21, 1929 - March 21, 1999) was an American novelist. Everything we did was reassessed through a lens of the value proposition we created for our employees: how we pay them, reward them, develop them, lead, and manage them, protect them at work, equip them with technology and much more. One of the first things I did when I got here was put in place metrics that we would put in our bonus programs to make sure we achieve our diversity goals. /URI (https://news.northwesternmutual.com/2018-08-21-Northwestern-Mutual-Appoints-Don-Robertson-to-Senior-Vice-President-and-Chief-Human-Resources-Officer) We have a great company driving unprecedented results with exceptional talent who are deeply engaged in our mission. Your managers job is to help you achieve that., Managers are the guides to their employees to achieve their career growth. You have your best personality on and your right smile. Its oftentimes not what you want them to fill it in with. I know what you used to say to me and I always loved it. Measured by 2020 revenue. I started in finance accounting. Theres nothing worse than candidates and worst when Ive interviewed executives that tap dance or theyre dancing around it. I interviewed you. Weve all had failures. Extremely gratifying to see Northwestern Mutual selected by Forbes as one of America's Best Large Employers. atOkQmxyd :Itmx?`>Eq}0-#\~ px|_?=-rhKhOPb4|,y/_wKugLRMb+uReO+K26d*q[+E/\Rqz+_quZ``N[I|)`~^ ~ij|'g/{/XQ5AIp6WV2k9i)RYIeh.X6$|~O ~0A^y;ssn 6C z16kLp1gL0:kb^o8 xHiPp>uot During this Great Reshuffling era marked by workforce shortages across industries, its never been more important for leaders to deliver on their companys employee value proposition. Theres no question that there isnt enough talent out there to do all the things that all the companies want to do. Let me know. /CA 1.0 Don Robertson EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual 1 settimana If you have never carried a bag as a sales leader and had a quota and held those kinds of things, youre not going to talk to those salespeople the way that I could because I understood the language, challenges and what they were going through. Therefore, its things like enabling your employees to have a career and achieve their lifetime dreams. Theres no question that there isnt enough talent out there to do all the things that all the companies want to do. This button displays the currently selected search type. I should have gathered more data, or whatever it was but I liked that. I can show you hypertext from Windows and other things from the 1950s. Thats what I tell leaders. 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). >> I tell my team all the time, Tell me the punchline and if I have questions but dont take me through the pain. That was a big one. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. 12 0 obj 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. /ColorSpace << Youre going to get to where you want to get to in your career because you experience things and you become good at it. What weve accomplished here is remarkable. 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. Youre not going to keep them. If I get back in the game, Im giving you a call. Email . 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. 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. Before Sutherland he was SVP of HR for HP Enterprise Services. Its going to be much more applicable to whats going to be difficult at work. << Ive never had an HR job. Don was a huge contributor to that. /Type /Annot It gave me more credibility with them in terms of the ability to build that trusting relationship so I could have more of an impact as an HR leader. You mentioned diversity. /Type /Action She took me and made me the Head of HR for HR when I had no business. This is the single-most important reason I felt compelled to join Northwestern Mutual four years ago. You can always hire externally but you also can build internal marketplaces. Copyright 2023 The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, WI. They wanted somebody with that kind of experience. endobj Its the ultimate compliment. First of all, you need to institutionalize the way you do your talent so that diversity is at the forefront of anything you do. That was a big support. 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. Prior to his role at Northwestern Mutual, Don developed workforces across the world at Hewlett-Packard Corporation, GE Capital, Stanford Research Institute, Apttus, and Sutherland Global Services, among others. /ca 1.0 Phone . He works with enterprise partners to maintain a healthy and strong field system delivering comprehensive plans that combine life insurance and investment solutions in support of clients' financial goals. They dont need an adjective and a title. 7) Before Sutherland he was SVP of HR for HP Enterprise Services. Ive been asked it in so many different ways. 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. Just a case where the company 's Insurance businesses business partner name for best... 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