Harini Chellappa

Senior Director, People Operations and Digital Solutions Okta

Main Day One: Tuesday, December 9, 2025

9:00 AM Skills-Based Reality Check: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Worth Doing Anyway

If you’re skeptical about the skills-based organization model—you’re not alone. This session strips away the buzzwords and gets real about what it actually takes to build skills into HR Shared Services. You’ll hear how organizations are capturing skills (with mixed results), what they’re doing with that data (when they can), and how it’s playing out in day-to-day HRSS workflows. 

We’ll explore: 

  • Why getting employees to input skills is harder than it looks 
  • What to do with skills data once you have it (beyond a nice dashboard) 
  • Where HRSS can apply a skills-based lens—routing, career pathing, upskilling—and where it falls flat 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Harini.

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