/Annots 15 0 R Mpb4 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. /Type /Action 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. /Type /Page About Northwestern MutualNorthwestern Mutualhas been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for more than 160 years. 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. I should have gathered more data, or whatever it was but I liked that. 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. 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. >> q(G;9)3G2e]PCb# &8.th3geRyLJ* The Northwestern Mutual management team includes Eric Christophersen (Vice President CampusandEvent Experiences), Ann Yeung (CTO WealthandInvestments ManagementandVP Field Experience Engineering), and Lee Hurley (CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER) . You know how to drive the car that youre driving. Let me digress a little bit. 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. Some policies may not receive dividends in a particular year or years even while other policies receive dividends. With its level term life coverage, you can choose between a 10- or 20-year term length. Maybe it might be good to pick their brains for some ideas as well. I look forward to talking to you again soon. 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. Long-term care insurance is issued by Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company, Milwaukee, WI, (NLTC) a subsidiary of NM. 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. Im still doing the heavy insanity workouts. You need to institutionalize the way you do your talent so that diversity is at the forefront of anything you do. Northwestern Mutual Recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Large Employers When we started to put in place a lot of these mechanisms around talent management, talent development and career path, what wonderful talent we had that was down in the organization that we probably didnt know as well as we should have known. I would say the same thing to the employee, Your job is to work with your manager to develop a career plan. Im on my bike on Saturday on the soccer field. Thats the context of the question. Don Robertson is the Chief HR Officer for Northwestern Mutual. MILWAUKEE, Aug. 21, 2018 / PRNewswire / -- Northwestern Mutual today announced the appointment of Don Robertson to senior vice president and chief human resources officer. The faster you get to know them, the faster you can help them accelerate their career and give them exposure. Its a great example. 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? Two additional senior leadership appointments include: Evamarie Schoenborn was named president. Best Talent: We are in a talent war. You were always like this. "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. /Type /Action They have more energy than the two of us put together, which is frightening. I have two last questions. Don Robertson. >> See Profile. endobj My first thought was to throw my chest out, yell louder and I would lead with ego. You are the only person I knew that viewed it as an ecosystem. Northwestern Mutual. I said, Okay. She was like, I want to see this. I gave it to Caroline. I wish I could remember but it was like, They need to see the authentic me. It was when Nancy was the Head of Enterprise Services at that time and I was preparing a deck. 11 0 obj Reggieyiane Robertson. Marcela was somebody who believed in me and Bina Chaurasia on her team. 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. >> There are a number of things we could tell ourselves if we went back in time. Driving and sustaining high employee engagement is essential to recruiting and retaining top talent but achieving that outcome is easier said than done. . Go back to Caroline. It came back 3 or 4 times. I feel like this is debt that I have to pay to people. I had a major pull me aside and he said, Be good, be brief, be gone. That was it. This includes overall leadership of product development and innovation, product line performance, risk selection standards, and underwriting. >> /Border [0 0 0] Investment brokerage services are offered through Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC (NMIS) a subsidiary of NM, broker-dealer, registered investment advisor, and member FINRA and SIPC. I was thinking of the great Caroline Atherton, if you remember her. But this wasn't the case at Northwestern Mutual. x][~s]^}lCHAC~)qH}CpIs9;;;||G]y,ySg7v'_h?,M7u&U)iPO4_jm~nA 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. The third thing is to try to give your employee base as much context as you possibly can. I knew you were like this with me. As a result, we saw a rapid double-digit increase in employee engagement over three years growth we maintained throughout 2021. Nobody achieves things in life without the help of a number of folks. subsidiaries. I interviewed you. $1 .PP]BT~|h}&~MXQ+{f>}edeaV5[f:WJj. You must have had an entirely different eye on that talent as compared to your normal recruiting talent acquisition and HR business partner. 8 0 obj /PCSp 4 0 R 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. To learn more about Northwestern Mutual, visit NM.com. I know its got to play in how you approach things. She believed in me when I was coming out of the business into HR. We reconfigured our leadership structure. Two more things before I finally get to the wrap-up question. >> That was a big support. /SA true Tell me a difficult person. D6T P}] Investment brokerage services provided as a Registered Representative of NMIS . 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. Neal Sample is now chief information officer. One thing I would tell you is to be a lot more humble and willing to listen to other peoples points of view. It has to be threaded in what you do. I like to say that Al Gore did not discover the internet but SRI did. It has to be threaded in your mainstream of what you do for talent. /F7 7 0 R We are very proud of the outcomes we have delivered but we know that we must keep going. Phone Email. How hard could they be? I remember we were interviewing you for the book and you had some tough questions. 1 0 obj 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. When you now are that business person who knows HR and youre working with the business, especially coming from sales, talent is everything. 4 0 obj MILWAUKEE, Aug. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Northwestern Mutual today announced the appointment of Don Robertson to senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Get to know your talent down in the organization because theres an incredible amount of talent down there. Northwestern Mutual Location 720 E Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53202, United States Description Industry Insurance endobj 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. { d[-Xy7bx"zIuQ6MnCFk?0n^t0nV0}P\wT+1p;{nu(Vo,.e+!ajAu \vj3Y'#Tqf$i8wy_mn-gKU>$rY_ lBQ#qz5g:0|v64Ia\q(CA2`m=D^"aDtG)1c/d,XW3j"2 ciQgyIRbJQ)U#K&m2j[va And we strengthened our performance-based culture, ensuring that our high performers are rewarded for the results they achieve. For example, our company here now, weve got significant investments were making in technology, particularly significant investments were making in business initiatives to drive a better client and advisor experience. c&(<0mF*_Ty*V4bR|Ue$(Rb47l$t2Byf&QIGCzRGV)ZCg@=dF _~PBc?+!p=p\ PjdD{V$M.ASC1Fsr;42=7R9#uu>=@ _8VO4tIs^9MgYU@+A.qp|'H_Wm`3aL-UsS0`/Zo^u741X;xX[2 'M)Go-d Legal Assistant . Theres nothing worse than candidates and worst when Ive interviewed executives that tap dance or theyre dancing around it. 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. 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. It can aid individuals and businesses to. >> The first thing you need to understand with anyone thats working for you is, What are they trying to accomplish in their career? 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 . << 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. Best Talent: Youre not going to get to where you want to get to in your career because youre going to get trained. >> /A << Don Robertson is now chief human resources officer. 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 all know that when people go to do interviews, its almost like a first date. Youre playing catch-up to try to change it around. << I had no business being at the level I was at because I came over to a pretty high level but she knew I had the raw attributes. stream Phone Email. For some reason, the more senior I got, it finally clicked in my head. Benefitting from his varied experience as a leader in sales and finance as well as human resources, Dons goal is to continue re-imagining how HR collaborates with other operational leaders to advance the goals of Northwestern Mutual and its workforce. I havent stopped counting yet. 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. We'd love to learn more about you, your team, and your challenges.Talent War Group is ready to help. How would you make it work? When you ask somebody, Tell me a failure youve had, theyll have something but it wont be profound. A member of the company's Senior Leadership Team, he leads the Finance and Risk function responsible for the company's financial management and planning, budgeting, actuarial, investment risk and operations, enterprise risk management and resiliency. Its just leaders are leaders. I was like, I could do that. I got to slide two and I got pummeled. Don Robertson. She took me and made me the Head of HR for HR when I had no business. The failure could be as simple as, I did this decision. You mentioned diversity. Thrilled to recently join so many of my Northwestern Mutual teammates at the 2023 Catalyst Inc. << Lets turn it into that. Before that, three great leadership pearls of wisdom? We refined the way we recruit. First of all, you need to institutionalize the way you do your talent so that diversity is at the forefront of anything you do. Its the ultimate compliment. Don Robertson EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual 3w Extremely gratifying . Copyright 2019 The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, WI. Northwestern Mutual. In other words, its the ability to rapidly use the skills and experiences youve established in your life to new sets of issues but that you draw upon to problem-solve your way through those things. Awards Conference & Dinner in NYC - one of the year's premier We are well-positioned for the days, months, and years to come, in part, because we created and committed to a new people vision and employee value proposition. Hear more talent insights from George and Don by tuning in to this episode. When I made that transition to HR, I had come out of being a consultant in the defense space in KPMG Consulting. Sources: Financial Advisor and InvestmentNews, April 2021, Financial Planning, August 2021. /Font << I like to think of it as our talent management approach has to have the DNI lens pulled through it. 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. Youve had some amazing insights. 5 0 obj 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. %PDF-1.4 You have to be a student of the business. ES had $22 billion annual revenue and 110,000 employees. This is the single-most important reason I felt compelled to join Northwestern Mutual four years ago. /ColorSpace << Im talking about some significant stuff because most people that Im going to be interviewing with have had those kinds of things. 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). It isnt just a case where the company gets what it needs from the employee. Ill put it that way. There were pockets of high engagement here and there, but many employees did not feel they had the same opportunities for growth and career success as others. I was like, I dont have to worry. /Producer ( Q t 4 . I feel its my responsibility to help prepare them for what theyre trying to achieve in their career and create an environment and experiences that give them the opportunity to hone those skills. . 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. People arent going to generally tell you, I got fired for X.. Retired Chief Executive Officer MicroTek, Inc. Chairman, President and CEO The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Grateful for the opportunity to discuss Northwestern Mutual's historic year at the Chicago CHRO Executive Summit last week. 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. 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. What do you say to them where you are now? 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. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com All Rights Reserved. Were in the wealth management business. Its either you have it or you dont. They wanted somebody with that kind of experience. Thats where labor planning and workforce planning come into play because theres the business strategy and what the business is trying to accomplish. 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. >> The company is benefiting but the individual is also benefiting. If I get back in the game, Im giving you a call. You also have to be thinking about it from a development, growth and retention standpoint. 2 Ranking for Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC. 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. 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. 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. 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. /Subtype /Link This is a people business, and I can't think of a | 15 comments on LinkedIn Don Robertson on LinkedIn: Northwestern Mutual Recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Large | 15 comments 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. I dont think its that unique. /Pattern << Aditi Javeri Gokhale holds executive accountabilities for the company's strategy to drive growth, competitiveness, and relevance. Where do they want to go? How do I get there faster, better and easier? What would you tell yourself? 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.. Search for specific advisors, products, services, articles, etc. Weve married up, which was not expected of us. Dont think you have them all yourself. 8 . Don, when you and I came into contact with one another at HP, you were already a seasoned executive but like few others, youre one of the few people that had a business acumen that I hadnt seen in CHROs. There are a lot of different levers you can pull. 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. Were very data-driven. Don Robertson. 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. What would you say to companies that dont put talent first? /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] Unbelievable. Anything else was open for experimentation and enhancement and we went all in. Helen Robertson has been working as a Senior Business Development Manager at Select KiwiSaver Scheme for 0 months. >> Get Contact Info for All Departments Northwestern Mutual Org Chart by Seniority Marketing (509) Lee Hurley What I try to do is get to the 3rd, 4th or 5th day when the person lets their hair down, What are they about? I typically try to ask about experiences that will cause that to go down because Im ultimately trying to look for 3 or 4 things, as I told you guys when I met with you. )~GU(!h@LL):]4oME> L3bfLn("37L[afL`X/pMnp[%n*JJ|1nxBYUoUY511rpboqeM[7)y}u\W1@ ~yE_UO}XeU+PaeT| See Profile. The reason why I ask a lot of different questions in a lot of different ways is Im trying to understand your intellect. Not all products and services are available in all states. Excelling Beyond the Glass Ceiling No Adjectives Needed with Lisa Schreiber and Myrna Soto. Theres nothing that youre going to be trying to take on from a challenge at a business level that is going to go from A to Z in a straight line. 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. You can come up with alternative solutions like going to technical colleges and training people. Yes, correct. I dont know if he listened to me. /Filter /FlateDecode Once youve done it after a week or two in that same location, all of a sudden, you start to master it. Join Facebook to connect with Don Robertson and others you may know. Youre not going to keep them. What happened is I got in it and I realized my business background, my experience and what I had done was advantageous. There are investments the business wants to make. << James Wesland Robertson is an Insurance Agent of NM and NLTC. Did they have to twist your arm or were you like, This is the next new challenge and frontier where I can impact? What was it for you? /A << 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. /Title ( N o r t h w e s t e r n M u t u a l A p p o i n t s D o n R o b e r t s o n t o S e n i o r V i c e P r e s i d e n t a n d C h i e f H u m a n R e s o u r c e s O f f i c e r - A u g 2 1 , 2 0 1 8) She came from the business and then went into HR. Im looking for someone who has a good attitude because nobody wants to work with people that are negative, especially in this day and age. We had pages and pages. You have to mainstream the way you think about diversity. And we launched a new talent navigator tool, enabling our employees to sit down and visualize where they want to go in their careers. I make it okay to talk about a real failure because we all get these questions, Tell me something that didnt work. Lets figure out how to do this better together.. Dont shortcut how transparent you need to be with your employees about why youre doing what youre doing and as quickly as you can. Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google, Inc. Don and George talk about how Don got into the HR space and what hes learned as an HR practitioner. >> 4) What I would tell any company that is not emphasizing that enough is, one of the most powerful things you can do is to become a talent magnet and it becomes momentum-driven. Download pdf of bio Jeff Sippel Executive Vice President Chief Information Officer The mechanisms to create that in how we promote, retain, acquire and develop are all consistent. Without her support, I dont think I would have been there. We set benchmarks and goals for engagement, organizational health, transformation, diversity, and inclusion, and more and we adjusted our bonus structures to reflect these new targets. >> You have to realize that you own a tremendous gift of their career in your hands. [/Pattern /DeviceRGB] Unless theyre right out of college, theyre lying because I dont know anyone that has gone through life and never had a failure. The one thing I will tell you is nobody achieves things in life, and certainly I havent without the help of a number of folks. Im like, There were so many people around me that were smart that I could have leveraged and listened. Its great advice. The company manages more than $125 billion of client assets through its wealth management and investment services. . John E. Schlifske is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Northwestern Mutual, and is a member of the Board of Trustees. >> Phone . 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. Theres nothing on paper that would have said that I should have been the Head of HR for HR. Im going to give them both to you in advance because its not a got you. 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 Ive learned is if you dont give them the information, theyll fill it in with things. 15 0 obj Where you lose most of the time is your 5 to 10-year rock stars who look ahead and they dont see the opportunity and somebody calls them. Don understands how to meet the needs of a diverse workforce while employing strategic thinking to deliver real results for Northwestern Mutual, its workforce, and its clients. Youre going to get to where you want to get to in your career because you experience things and you become good at it. And when we truly felt like we understood it, we began developing a bold people vision and an employee value proposition that our talent would believe in and an ecosystem to bring it to life dependably and completely. I answered the questions, gave my pint of blood and got off the stage right. Christian's accountabilities include shaping and guiding the company's planning philosophy and experience, the digital products that support our customers and field force, and the customer analytics that inform our strategies for improving their experience. /URI (https://news.northwesternmutual.com/2018-08-21-Northwestern-Mutual-Appoints-Don-Robertson-to-Senior-Vice-President-and-Chief-Human-Resources-Officer) /CSpg /DeviceGray Were pretty close to the same age, although I stopped counting at 50. I had not done HR strategy but I had all the attributes. Im not going to give you the background on this amazing leader that he is the CHRO. In the past three years, we sought to modernize. Georgia Public Defender Council. You and I both used to do services business. One of the things that, for those people reading, talent acquisition wasnt at the table in enterprise services until you came along. 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. /CA 1.0 >> There are a number of issues out there that companies are facing. Don Robertson is the Chief HR Officer for Northwestern Mutual. I try to tell it in a holistic way, Its not just to benefit you now. 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. Measured by 2020 revenue. I can teach you a lot of things but I cant teach you intelligence. 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