/URI (https://news.northwesternmutual.com/2018-08-21-Northwestern-Mutual-Appoints-Don-Robertson-to-Senior-Vice-President-and-Chief-Human-Resources-Officer) Don Robertson is now chief human resources officer. They were like, Do you know what we do? I said, Yes, I used to do what you did. Investment advisory and trust services are offered through Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (NMWMC), Milwaukee, WI, a subsidiary of NM and a federal savings bank. q(G;9)3G2e]PCb# &8.th3geRyLJ* Its a long story how I got into HR. She is also accountable for NM Future Ventures along with digital disruptor, Wyshbox. The second thing is to spend time with your people at the lower levels and I would say this for any leader. Any company that has the reputation and ability to be a talent engine is going to do a great job of recruiting and developing talent. I remember I was a young officer. Thats true but I dont ever remember sending you an email or a text that wasnt instantaneously received and I was anywhere on the globe at that time. Heres the first thing for leaders to keep in mind: if you want to grow employee engagement and organizational health in a short time, start with a great company and a virtuous vision. /Border [0 0 0] Northwestern Mutual. For whatever reason, all of my seniors that were supposed to present to the generals were absent that day when I had to brief a three-star general. I remember you were telling me about the people that I was going to interview. >> Raymond J. Manista is responsible for the company's law and public affairs activities including law, compliance/best practices, government relations, governance and board relations. Your job is to develop the next generation of not just leaders but of talent.. "He understands the importance of the employee experience to our company strategy as we work to transform the financial planning experience for our clients.". Extremely gratifying to see Northwestern Mutual selected by Forbes as one of America's Best Large Employers. Its a great example. >> In the previous episode to this, I had Lisa Schreiber on who is the Chief Customer Success Officer at BlackLine and Myrna Soto. . Its okay that youve had those kinds but what did you learn from it? Legal Assistant . Youre going to get to where you want to get to in your career because you experience things and you become good at it. Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and its Robertson joins Northwestern Mutual after serving in human resources leadership roles at companies ranging from Fortune 50s to maturing start-ups. I tell people Im getting better every year. Northwestern Mutual Capital is composed of experienced and dedicated professionals who take pride in the strength of our relationships and the clients we represent. /Filter /FlateDecode 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.. 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 Northwestern Mutual. Products and services referenced are offered and sold only by appropriately appointed and licensed entities and financial advisors and professionals. Legal Assistant . Let me know. RTS Financial. Jonathan Robertson works at SLB, which is an Electricity, Oil & Gas company with an estimated 34755 employees. 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. I had a major pull me aside and he said, Be good, be brief, be gone. That was it. You were always like this. /GSa 3 0 R 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. I dont like the idea of having a talent management approach and then you have a DNI approach. 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. 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. He works with enterprise partners to maintain a healthy and strong field system delivering comprehensive plans that combine life insurance and investment solutions in support of clients' financial goals. There are the talent strategies in between those two of how youre going to address it. To learn more about Northwestern Mutual, visit NM.com. ,,0 XA`@Z>\8)Uj3OtsFz2'4B bK;X&,= iK"0jDaJPbpMZ6kQ; # Best Talent: Businesses have large appetites for things they want to do, but oftentimes then they dont think about the talent thats going to take to deliver that. You have to approach the folks that youre privileged to have worked for you. Who do you count as people other than Jack Welch? Download our app for fast, easy, and secure access to your accounts and moreanytime, anywhere. All Rights Reserved. /AIS false About Northwestern MutualNorthwestern Mutualhas been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for more than 160 years. 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. What are some of the things you wish you would have knocked out of your head much earlier on that you would share with people who look at you, look at me and look at a lot of the people on your team and my team and say, I want to rise to that level at some point. Phone . Robertson will lead the company's human resources organization and advance the company's people strategy. I wanted to soften the blow of that failure in my answer. The people leaders have to be an extension of the leadership teams. I dont think its that unique. It cannot be a separate thing. I was fortunate that I was turned around to be a resource manager and HR leader for the very same segment that I came from. Nothing fuels business more that highly engaged people who support it. 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. Robertson is probably best known for his trio of novels featuring Morris Bird III: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread, The Sum and Total of Now, and The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened.A movie adaptation of The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened aired on NBC in 1977, starring . It wasnt my first exposure to HR. I know that much. 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. Mike Carter is the Chief of Staff to the CEO. 10 0 obj Career Journey Coach | Development Enabler | Talent Management | Learning and Development at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Senior Business Development Manager. Im in the gym five days a week. We had pages and pages. Thank you for your leadership, Don! I look forward to talking to you again soon. You can always hire externally but you also can build internal marketplaces. /Parent 2 0 R One of the most difficult things to help businesses understand is that the faster you can recognize what you need from a talent standpoint and put your talent on that, the faster you can accelerate your priorities. The one thing I would tell myself at 22 is, Dont try to do it all by yourself. Don was a huge contributor to that. Don is a catalyst of change within Northwestern Mutual, bringing a strategic mindset and a unique flair for identifying and developing talent to his role as CHRO. I had come up with a quote and my co-author, Mike, has me saying that at every speech we make that you ought to be treating your human capital with the same rigor, focus and discipline that you do your financial capital. /Resources 14 0 R 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. Im looking for somebody who has good energy because what we do is not easy and you need to have the energy, resilience and perseverance. 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. You mentioned diversity. Phone . Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and its subsidiaries. In addition, she leads teams that oversee more than $570 billion in company and client assets. /Length 13 0 R 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. Todd M. Jones is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO). 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 EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual 1w It came back with changes, Make those changes. She goes, Im not looking at this again. I know your schedule is busy. Investment brokerage services provided as a Registered Representative of NMIS . Expert Adviser - Capital Portfolio Management at Transport for NSW for 11 months. Reggieyiane Robertson. >> 1 0 obj It was when Nancy was the Head of Enterprise Services at that time and I was preparing a deck. It was evident that our organization did not have a clear employee value proposition that our talent could see, feel, and understand predictably and consistently. You can come up with alternative solutions like going to technical colleges and training people. << Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. Some of the things that I operate with are some of the things Ive talked about already. /XObject << 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. In this episode, George Randle sits down for an insightful interview with EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual, Don Robertson. We have worked together across varying market cycles, and our experience across industries and asset classes helps us be responsive to our partners. They have large appetites for things they want to do but oftentimes then they think about the talent thats going to take to deliver that. << People arent going to generally tell you, I got fired for X.. Do you think I show five slides to Tracy, Meg or whomever? I was like, No, Caroline. Email . Outside of the talent acquisition space and creating talent pools, what do you say to the up-and-coming managers or the newly-minted managers or supervisors, people that are now in charge of developing others? Unless theyre right out of college, theyre lying because I dont know anyone that has gone through life and never had a failure. /Rect [34.5000000 465 129 475.500000 ] >> I try to get to know the person at an authentic level. The failure could be as simple as, I did this decision. I survived to fight another day, as they say. 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. They used to track that and give a lot of credit for that. Phone . 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 in the wealth management business. Before Sutherland he was SVP of HR for HP Enterprise Services. They wanted somebody with that kind of experience. Don Robertson is on Facebook. /Type /Catalog 9 0 obj "He understands the importance of the employee experience to our company strategy as we work to transform the financial planning experience for our clients.". Congratulations on this impressive achievement, Don. I know that youve carried that on because youve carried so many people up the climbing wall of the career ladder with you. << I had not done HR strategy but I had all the attributes. Those are a few of the nuggets in terms of what I might do differently. Executive VP & Chief Human Resources Officer . x][~s]^}lCHAC~)qH}CpIs9;;;||G]y,ySg7v'_h?,M7u&U)iPO4_jm~nA Unbelievable. Im going to start teaching that. >> I tell my team all the time, Tell me the punchline and if I have questions but dont take me through the pain. That was a big one. Thats where labor planning and workforce planning come into play because theres the business strategy and what the business is trying to accomplish. Ive used the analogy for those people that are pro-football or soccer but there are not too many soccer fans, except Mike Cirelli, who reminds me all the time. from 8 AM - 9 PM ET. See Profile. The company manages more than $125 billion of client assets through its wealth management and investment services. Youre assembling A-players, and no doubt I walked into a bunch of A-players with the reputation of Northwestern Mutual. 2 Ranking for Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC. It has got to be in the right location. What weve accomplished here is remarkable. 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? /Subtype /Link Tracy taught me a lot about interacting with boards at the board level and those levels. ES had $22 billion annual revenue and 110,000 employees. /URI (https://www.northwesternmutual.com/) /Border [0 0 0] Cameron Robertson has been working as a A and Executive Director. >> I have two last questions. When we talk about leaders, one of the things that Ive shared with companies or is an example that you give and many others have given, which is investing in your time and growing current leaders. Retired Senior Vice President Chief Information and Digital Officer, Eli Lilly and Company. The biggest lesson I would tell you is to get to know the people that think differently than you and that disagree with you often. Two more things before I finally get to the wrap-up question. >> The reason why I ask a lot of different questions in a lot of different ways is Im trying to understand your intellect. Theres nothing worse than candidates and worst when Ive interviewed executives that tap dance or theyre dancing around it. It has to be threaded in what you do. Tell me a difficult person. A-players do not want to work for B-players.. Im so proud to be part of such a phenomenal company. You have to mainstream the way you think about diversity. I know its got to play in how you approach things. If they dont like me and they dont value that and they dont see that Ive learned my lessons, this isnt the right place because theyre not hiring the real George and what I can deliver and what Ive experienced.. She came from the business and then went into HR. endobj I understood organizations org design and how to deliver to the business. Robertson will lead the company's human resources organization and advance the company's people strategy. Did anybody come to mind who invested in you and your career and giving you good advice? I remember that one of the things that imprinted on me early in my career was they used to evaluate senior leaders not just by the business performance but also by how many people are now in leadership positions across the organization that used to work for that person. When I first went in, it was more of theyre loaning me into the function for a period of time to help grow and develop the sales organization. %PDF-1.4 Before that, three great leadership pearls of wisdom? $1 .PP]BT~|h}&~MXQ+{f>}edeaV5[f:WJj. Don Robertson, welcome to the show. /S /URI You think youve got it all figured out. Im still doing the heavy insanity workouts. You are the only person I knew that viewed it as an ecosystem. When I was working with you, talent was always on my brain, How are we doing it? Executive VP & Chief Human Resources Officer . Best Talent: The more that weve had experiences in life that allow us to master certain types of skills, the faster youre going to be able to assimilate to whatever new environment youre in. 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. /F7 7 0 R If you're in the business of constantly having to acquire talent, because you're losing them, you're going to eventually fall behind. John E. Schlifske is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Northwestern Mutual, and is a member of the Board of Trustees. >> I was too aggressive on that decision when I didnt need to make it for about another two weeks. >> Somebody asked me, We talk in general terms about developing talent but do you have any specific tips as to how they would develop that talent? One of the things is we put such an emphasis that you have to develop your talent but many times, they dont see it from great leaders. >> 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. In the past three years, we sought to modernize. She took me and made me the Head of HR for HR when I had no business. I have failed numerous times in my career. /Pages 2 0 R You cannot townhall your way to change management. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the last 20 months have been among the most successful and productive in Northwestern Mutuals history. See Profile. Its amazing to me. 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. Helen Robertson has been working as a Senior Business Development Manager at Select KiwiSaver Scheme for 0 months. Robertson earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from California State University, Fresno where he currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Craig School of Business. Managing Director and Director of Asset Management Robert W. Baird & Co. Arbitrator, Mediator & Advisor Weber Advising, LLC, Global Co-Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer K2 Integrity. I didnt get to work with some of those leaders that you mentioned. Don J. Robertson is responsible for the company's employee experience and he leads the Human Resources organization, as well as teams that manage the company's campuses, events and employee digital experience. To me, if you dont have your people managers on board with what youre trying to do, if youre in any kind of company where youve got a large organization, youre not going to communicate effectively to the people on the ground. Don Robertson. Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Don Robertson. Its the ultimate compliment. 4) She recognized that I had a strong affinity for HR but also had the business and what I would call agility that she needed to help her transform the HR function at HP. One of the reasons that I have the attitude about is because I was fortunate enough to work with one of the great talent multipliers of all time in business, Jack Welch in GE. Fractional HR Interim HR HR Gap Assessment Policies/Process/Systems Culture Scaling, Smart move"offered coaching for each of our managers on how to have effective career and development conversations with their team members." Two additional senior leadership appointments include: Evamarie Schoenborn was named president. I was like, I could do that. I got to slide two and I got pummeled. I owe her a tremendous amount. endobj "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. 4 Northwestern Mutual continues to have the highest financial strength ratings awarded to any U.S. life insurer by all four of the major rating agencies: A.M. Best Company, A++ (highest), May 2021; Fitch Ratings, AAA (highest), December 2021; Moody's Investors Service, Aaa (highest), December 2021; S . 7) >> Leaders need to hold themselves accountable to develop the future leaders of that company that that company is going to need. How do you look at that? #006: How Can We Bring People Back into The Office? Subsidiaries includeNorthwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC(NMIS) (securities), broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, member FINRA and SIPC; the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (NMWMC) (fiduciary and fee-based financial planning services), federal savings bank; and Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company (NLTC) (long-term care insurance). Marcela was somebody who believed in me and Bina Chaurasia on her team. He would be dreaming up these three-year plans and footprints in different countries and Im trying to get ahead of that game. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience to help our clients navigate their financial lives every day. Driving and sustaining high employee engagement is essential to recruiting and retaining top talent but achieving that outcome is easier said than done. 11 0 obj I got an Accounting and Finance degree. Northwestern Mutual sells two types of term life policies: Annual renewable term life and level term life. /Type /Action Thats the context of the question. endobj One of the things I didnt add is the title of this show comes from the book, The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent. Weve all had failures. One thing I would tell you is to be a lot more humble and willing to listen to other peoples points of view. Theyve been in many times resigned to compliance or overhead. Fortunately, Ive had opportunities to resurrect. I got my CPA with Deloitte way back. You wear your best clothes. *Based on Northwestern Mutual internal data, not applicable exclusively to disability insurance products. 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. When I made that transition to HR, I had come out of being a consultant in the defense space in KPMG Consulting. . Hear more talent insights from George and Don by tuning in to this episode. Could you imagine Bill Belichick andy Reid or Bruce Arians who said, Special teams arent important. Don Robertson has been working as a Executive VP & Chief Human Resources Officer at Northwestern Mutual for 5 years. Many of us have kids that think they know. The more that we can anticipate when were going to need those skills and how many, the faster we can start to build programs to put in place. Email . If you could become good at understanding different perspectives, peoples points of view and approaches, its going to make you more effective later on in life. I try to tell it in a holistic way, Its not just to benefit you now. In this episode, I have a guy who has led by example and set the example for me that I had the great fortune to work with at HP. Neal Sample is now chief information officer. These were some capable people. I answered the questions, gave my pint of blood and got off the stage right. What would you recommend to the small to medium business that wants to be a Northwestern Mutual and the A-player on the block and leading the industry? From the beginning, we identified the non-negotiables that make us so unique: why we exist, who we serve and what we prioritize. 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 . They proceeded me but it was one of the greatest turns. Give my best to the family. MILWAUKEE, Aug. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwestern Mutual today announced the appointment of Don Robertson to senior vice president and chief human resources officer. I made the wrong call. You know how to drive the car that youre driving. Previously Don was the Chief People Officer of Apttus. Tracy was that way. 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. Do you want to be in this area? Every conversation I have with that person is to help them achieve that. I dont know at what point. 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. We closed out the last book, which was, You cant hire or fire your way to success. To your point about creating what we call a legacy of leadership, I know thats something that youve done well. There are investments the business wants to make. /PCSp 4 0 R 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. My first thought was to throw my chest out, yell louder and I would lead with ego. Ill give you due credit and make sure that you share your own first. Im looking for somebody that has got good energy that they can overcome the obstacles that are going to come at them. /Rect [34.5000000 120 553.500000 142.500000 ] And we strengthened our performance-based culture, ensuring that our high performers are rewarded for the results they achieve. Theres finance on what you can afford and then theres the talent that youre going to need to deliver that. I recruited them both. Executive VP & Chief Human Resources Officer . The one that Ive landed on that works best is I start the question by describing a failure that Ive had. Whatever happens with special teams, well just deal with. Its about the ecosystem and the full team that you put together. It has to be threaded in your mainstream of what you do for talent. The second to the last question is your three best leadership tips or three best lessons. There are a number of issues out there that companies are facing. Its just leaders are leaders. I love it when my son tells me, Do you dont understand, dad? Im like, I dont. There are a lot of things you can learn by getting together people. . One of the things that, for those people reading, talent acquisition wasnt at the table in enterprise services until you came along. Talent pools are things that youre trying to accomplish. Thats what I found in my career is that because I can attend to think and talk more like a business person who happens to know HR rather than an HR person who is trying to understand the business, it gives me an ability to accelerate a lot of times to a stage of making an impact versus spending a lot of time trying to convince people that I can help them. /Type /Action I advised him to do the same. Im not going to give you the background on this amazing leader that he is the CHRO. This includes overall leadership of product development and innovation, product line performance, risk selection standards, and underwriting. Don Robertson EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual 1 semana Robertson will. Ive had the great fortune of having some amazing guests. During Women's History Month at Northwestern Mutual, we're celebrating women and the power of bold: of moving from realization to action. I completely over-rotated on that conversation. Im going to put you on this project so you can build some of that. For some reason, the more senior I got, it finally clicked in my head. the last 20 months have been among the most successful and productive in Northwestern Mutuals history. /Type /Page I had fewer pointers there. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] I havent stopped counting yet. /SM 0.02 Our challenge was helping employees reconnect with our mission, rediscover that few pursuits are more noble, and recognize once again the significant impact they were making in real peoples lives every day. [/Pattern /DeviceRGB] 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. << Ive tried a lot of different techniques over the years. Youre right. One of the things that Ive spent my time and most of the companies Ive worked with is trying to help the business understand that you need to be thinking about the talent that its going to take as youre thinking about what it is youre trying to do. First and foremost, make sure that you spend a lot of time with the people that manage your people. /Annots 15 0 R I had the good fortune to work with you and for you twice. Im on my bike on Saturday on the soccer field. subsidiaries. Best Talent: We are in a talent war. 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