Masterclass Leader: Stan Slap, CEO – SLAP
MASTERCLASS OVERVIEW
Stan Slap is the founder and CEO of the global consulting company called SLAP (by a remarkable coincidence) and NYT best selling author of Under the Hood: Fire Up and Fine-Tune Your Employee Culture.
SLAP is renowned for maximizing the commitment of manager, employee, and customer cultures. They are widely acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on the business impact of culture.
For over 30 years, in 44 countries, SLAP has directly influenced billions of dollars of performance improvement for many of the world’s most successful, demanding companies.
Each of these companies faced unique challenges and opportunities, were populated by unique cultures, and were led by unique people. Yet regardless of their special complex dynamics, every one of them asked these four questions, as companies continue to do today:
In Stan Slap’s exclusive Masterclass for HR World Summit 2026, he will answer these questions for you.
He’ll provide very new thinking and impart proven proprietary steps to help you answer them in your own circumstances. Plus, he’ll save some time for other questions, so bring some with you.
Masterclass Leader: Amanda Austin, Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University
Overview:
When organisations feel stuck, collaboration often collapses into competition. This masterclass blends improvisation principles with organisational psychology to help teams break rigid patterns, rebuild psychological safety, and move forward together. Drawing on real-world experience across global organisations, the session is highly practical and experiential. It is not about performance or entertainment — it is about giving leaders concrete tools to unlock trust, creativity, and momentum when progress feels blocked.
Key takeaways
Masterclass Leader: Samir Chabane, Global Head of Employee Experience & Culture – ASTEMO
Overview:
At Astemo, Employee Experience (EX) is the foundation for attracting and retaining top talent. A strong EX signals that our company values people, creating a brand that stands out as a best place to work. This is an immersive, interactive masterclass led by Samir Chabane, Head of EX & Culture at Astemo, to explore our 4 EX drivers to improve Engagement.
Walk through 4 activity stations representing each EX driver:
Key Takeaways:
Speakers:
Max Hunter – Co-Founder, MOTIVATORS@WORK,
Judith Raymakers – Co-Founder, Motivators@Work
AI can optimise processes, analyse data, and even mimic communication but it cannot create great teams & truly motivate people. That remains the leader’s unique role.
In this interactive, fun and engaging masterclass, Motivators@Work show how leaders can create the conditions where people feel truly connected, trusted and inspired to perform at their best. And from here how to create the most effective teams possible.
The session combines their Roots and Fruits framework to decode how to have motivated individuals in your team, and their Togethership methodology on how to create effective collaborative teams.
Do you want to:
* Reduce attrition
* Get rid of silo thinking
* Increase ownership
* Drive effective collaboration?
* Then this Masterclass is for you and your organisation.
Key Takeaways:
1. Simple to understand frameworks to take back to your organisation
One framework to simplify ‚how to motivate individuals’ and one on ‘how to create cohesive, resilient and effective teams’. Easy to implement the next week.
2. Bespoke solutions to your organisation’s issues
Interactive and co-creative, you will have time to work on YOUR specific issue to take back and implement immediately.
3. Strong connections with like-minded professionals
By experiencing Togethership live in the Masterclass, you will also take away strong bonds with other Masterclass participants that will help you in your role/ career
Masterclass Leader: Stan Slap, Founder & CEO, Slap Company
Overview:
Sometimes you’ve got to have rock star expertise. But there’s no assurance that these people are capable of recreating their success, are willing to sacrifice for the greater good, or will nurture and credit others. Acquiring top-rated talent can be impossible given the massive bankrolls you may be competing against. Even if you can fund it, anything won on price is easily lost to some other company’s price.
There’s only one solution: If you can’t always hire rock stars, you’ve got to build a great garage band culture. Can your company build a culture that breeds this level instead of buying it? Where the sum of the many outweighs the impact of the few? You can, but as with all things cultural, there are many wrong ways to attempt it and a right way to achieve it.
In Stan Slap’s exclusive masterclass, you’ll learn key steps to building a garage band culture that is:
Masterclass Leader: Alfonso Merino, Global Chief HR Officer, Grupo Alonso
Overview:
Change is no longer episodic — it is the permanent operating system of modern organisations. This masterclass reframes change management as a core leadership capability, combining behavioural science, agentic AI, and geopolitical readiness. Participants will explore how leading organisations reduce change failure, decentralise change ownership, and build resilience without burning out their people. The session moves beyond classic change models to show how transformation can become regenerative, not destructive.
Key takeaways
Masterclass Leader: Amanda Austin, Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University
Overview:
When organisations feel stuck, collaboration often collapses into competition. This masterclass blends improvisation principles with organisational psychology to help teams break rigid patterns, rebuild psychological safety, and move forward together. Drawing on real-world experience across global organisations, the session is highly practical and experiential. It is not about performance or entertainment — it is about giving leaders concrete tools to unlock trust, creativity, and momentum when progress feels blocked.
Key takeaways
Masterclass Leader: Samir Chabane, Global Head of Employee Experience & Culture – ASTEMO
Overview:
At Astemo, Employee Experience (EX) is the foundation for attracting and retaining top talent. A strong EX signals that our company values people, creating a brand that stands out as a best place to work. This is an immersive, interactive masterclass led by Samir Chabane, Head of EX & Culture at Astemo, to explore our 4 EX drivers to improve Engagement.
Walk through 4 activity stations representing each EX driver:
Key Takeaways:
