A global space for HR professionals and curious minds — built on real experience, not corporate noise.
The formats through which the community lives, learns, and works together.
Gabriela Roşca
Founder SMART HR Community
Twice a month, open to all members. Real dilemmas from the world of people management, discussed live — without the filter of hierarchy or corporate politics.
Quarterly, dedicated sessions for middle managers and for high-level managers. Structured peer exchange with professionals at your level, from different countries and industries.
Small-group format (5–10 participants), guided by an experienced coach or senior leader. A new group starts every month, running 5 sessions per cohort — deep, confidential work on the tensions people managers actually live with.
Quarterly exchanges among senior peers from comparable regional contexts — because a challenge in one market often has an answer in another.
Three times a year, in person. Legal issues, experience exchange, and the human connection that online can't fully replace.
Our flagship Event: international speakers, debate tracks, and the community coming together around the biggest questions in people management. Members receive exclusive discounts.
A rotating board of senior members (6-month mandates) who shape the community's direction — because SMART HR is built with its members, not just for them.
Recordings of debates and sessions, keynote videos, event presentations, practice guides (psychological safety, feedback), and community survey reports (pay transparency and more).
Cum a transformat Banca Transilvania wellbeing-ul dintr-un "nice to have"" într-un avantaj competitiv prin abordarea holistică a wellbeing-ului și cei patru piloni ai săi. Aflăm de la Alina Luca, Employer Branding Lead, Banca Transilvania.
Ce vei afla în acest webinar
Parcurgem datele din raportul global Return on Wellbeing 2026 - 1.515 lideri de HR, 10 piețe - și le punem față în față cu ce funcționează deja la Banca Transilvania, timp de o oră, cu Q&A live.
Cum ascultă BT nevoile reale ale oamenilor și cum transformă răspunsurile în programe.
Cum măsoară angajamentul de două ori pe an și cum se implică leadership-ul în ce urmează.
Cum ajunge beneficiul efectiv la angajați: canale interne, evenimente, comunicare.
Cum construiesc un pachet care atrage oameni buni și îi reține, inclusiv după pensionare.
We write faster than we ever have — Slack messages, quick emails, one-line replies between meetings. But speed comes at a cost: tone gets flattened, intent gets guessed at, and a message meant as neutral can land as cold, blunt, or even hostile. Are we accidentally manufacturing conflict with every message we send?
In this panel, we'll dig into how digital communication quietly reshapes workplace relationships. Why does the same sentence read as "efficient" from one person and "rude" from another? How much of workplace tension actually starts not with what was said, but with how it was read? And what can teams and leaders do to communicate clearly without spending half their day adding emojis and disclaimers just to soften a message?
Microshifting — breaking the workday into short bursts spread across hours instead of one continuous block — is being sold as the ultimate flexibility hack. But is it actually freeing us, or just rebranding the always-on culture we've been trying to escape?
In this panel, we'll unpack what microshifting really means for employees and employers alike: Does it boost focus and autonomy, or does it quietly erase the boundary between work and personal time? Can teams stay aligned and collaborative when everyone's "on" at different moments of the day? And what does this shift demand from managers who now have to lead without a shared clock?
But what happens when organizations start asking a different question — not "what is your title?" but "what can you do?"
The shift toward skills-based models is already reshaping how companies hire, develop, and promote their people. On paper, it sounds like progress — more meritocratic, more flexible, more focused on real capability. But in practice, it raises some uncomfortable questions. If titles no longer define career progression, how do people know they're moving forward? What happens to the structures that gave employees a sense of direction, stability, and professional identity? Are we opening doors — or quietly removing the signposts that help people navigate?
Are we empowering people, or creating a new kind of uncertainty about professional growth?
SMART HR 13 — We Lead The Change — is the 13th edition of Romania's only festival fully dedicated to those who lead and develop people. Three days of applied learning, meaningful connection, and conversations that actually move things forward.
If you're part of this community, you already know: this isn't just a conference. It's a space where the future of work gets shaped — one conversation, one insight, one decision at a time.
SMART HR 13 unfolds over three thematic days, each designed to go deep on one of the most pressing challenges facing leaders and organizations today.
Join us for a live chat conversation on one of the most talked-about workplace shifts of 2026: microshifting. 65% of workers say they want to break their workday into short, focused bursts — working around their life, not the other way around. Some are already doing it quietly, without telling their manager. And organizations are split: some are embracing it as the future of flexible work, others are watching it erode collaboration and accountability.
But what happens when organizations start asking a different question — not "what is your title?" but "what can you do?" The shift toward skills-based models is already reshaping how companies hire, develop, and promote their people. On paper, it sounds like progress — more meritocratic, more flexible, more focused on real capability.
Guest Speakers: Mariano Alonso González, Eveliene Witjes, Louise Dornan Thompson, Leonard Rizoiu
Legea transparenței salariale este aici. Dar cum o aplicăm în realitate?
SMART HR Community te invită la o sesiune de dezbatere cu oamenii care contează — specialiști HR și Legal de top, alături de reprezentanți ai Comisiei pentru muncă, familie și protecție socială din Senatul României.
Locurile fizice s-au ocupat deja. Dar poți fi parte din această conversație importantă online, în timp real.
Irina Străjescu - People & Communication @ Director Moldcell Foundation
Delia brings more than 20 years of HR leadership built from the ground up — from Recruiter to Country HR Director — across some of Romania's most complex international manufacturing environments. She has led HR organizations at Delphi and Aptiv, and today leads the HR function for Valeo Romania, partnering with executive leadership on business transformation, workforce strategy and organizational effectiveness across multiple manufacturing sites.
Her experience reaches well beyond Romania's borders: she has contributed to major Greenfield projects in Serbia (Novi Sad and Leskovac) and Ukraine (Cherkasy), building local HR capabilities and developing operational teams from the ground up as new plants came online.
Her focus spans HR strategy and operations, workforce planning, industrial relations, leadership development and employee experience — an approach rooted in pairing business understanding with operational excellence and a genuine, practical care for people.
Welcome aboard, Delia — we can't wait to see the perspective and energy you bring to SMART HR!
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🛈 Whenever you're ready to go deeper — with working groups, small-group supporting cohorts, and a full resource library of recordings, guides, and reports — Innovate and Activate Memberships are there to take you further.
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● Online Debate Groups — twice a month, open to all members — real dilemmas discussed without the filter of hierarchy or corporate politics.
● Curated Content — news on the hottest topics and trends in HR and people management, so you stay current without having to chase it yourself.
● Community Open Days — meet and interact with other members, share ideas, and discuss the topics that matter to you, via the community portal.
● Direct Chat — reach out to any member of the community one-on-one, whenever a conversation would help.
€180 +VAT/ Year
● Online Debate Groups — international discussions on the topics that shape people management today.
● Online Working Groups — collaborative sessions where professionals tackle shared challenges together.
● Community Open Days — all-member open dialogue spaces, available via the community portal.
● In-person and hybrid events — including the flagship SMART HR conference series.
● Access to SMART HR guides, survey reports, and event recordings.
● Peer mentoring pairs and skill-building micro-workshops (upcoming).
€600 +VAT/ Year
● Online Debate Groups — structured international discussions on the topics shaping people management today.
● Online Working Groups — collaborative sessions where senior professionals tackle shared challenges and build joint resources.
● Share Experience Sessions — peer exchange on real leadership situations, in a closed, trusted format.
● Community Open Days — all-member open dialogue spaces, available via the community portal.
● In-person and hybrid events — including the flagship SMART HR conference series.
● Advisory Board — Activate members are eligible to apply for the SMART HR Advisory Board, advising on community direction, events, and speakers.
● Full access to the SMART HR resource library — guides, survey reports, event recordings, and working documents.
● Peer mentoring pairs and international project teams (upcoming).
● Executive Roundtables — high-level, closed-format dialogue sessions for senior leaders(upcoming).