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Moving Beyond Heroics: Condition Design for Systemic Performance

Capable people can work hard and still get stuck – because the system keeps forcing resets. You see it when decisions reopen, priorities drift, cross-functional work turns into rework, and progress depends on constant intervention to move forward. In those situations, progress comes from condition design. The system quietly defaults to personal heroics: more effort, more meetings, more escalation.

In this session, you’ll learn a simple diagnostic lens for spotting what’s actually driving that pattern at the system level and what to change first. We’ll look across four domains – Signals, Meaning, Structure & Adaptation – to identify the dominant constraint. Practical, discussion-heavy, and built for HR leaders who influence how work gets done. We treat performance as a conditions issue and give you a practical way to consult with leaders using shared language that reduces blame. You’ll leave with a small set of “first moves” you can apply immediately.

Nicole Foti – Founder, Collective Intelligence Studio

Nicole Foti is the founder of Collective Intelligence Studio in Greenville, South Carolina. She helps leadership teams improve performance by redesigning the conditions that shape how work actually moves—so progress doesn’t depend on personal heroics, endless meetings, or constant escalation. In her work, Nicole designs and delivers enterprise talent, learning, and organizational development work at scale inside large, complex organizations. Her work includes creating leader-facing programs and operating systems—talent and performance cycles, leader development experiences, and the governance and routines that make these systems usable in real environments. She specializes in translating messy constraints into self-sustaining mechanisms leaders can implement immediately.

WNCHRA conducts a monthly chapter meeting on the second Wednesday of each month.  Meetings are typically a breakfast meeting but may vary in time to include lunch and afternoon meetings.  

Each meeting members are provided chapter, NCSHRM and SHRM updates in addition to programming that provides SHRM and HRCI credit.