OneHR 2026

Leading with Purpose, Serving with Impact

May 7, 2026

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Welcome to
OneHR 2026

Conference Overview >>

The OneHR Conference provides professional development to human resources professionals from the public and private sectors. This event is the premier human resource conference for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This event averages 800 attendees in person from entry-level HR professionals to senior leaders.
Our 2026 theme — “Leading with Purpose, Serving with Impact” — underscores HR’s vital role in strengthening and supporting the workforce.
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Overview

Leading with purpose

Leading with purpose 

Means being clear about why we work and choosing actions that align with our shared public-service mission.

Serving with impact

Serving with impact 

Means delivering real, positive results for employees, agencies, and the communities we support. 

This theme invites us to share ideas, build new skills, and improve how we work together so HR can continue to make a meaningful, measurable difference each day.

2026 OneHR Tracks

Track 1

From Silos to Systems:

The purpose of this track is to share ways the different HR functions can work together to better serve the agencies by improving communication and connecting strategies to get better results across the Commonwealth.
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Sessions could include:
  • Collaboration across HR functions or agencies
  • Teamwork and communication strategies
  • Aligning HR work with agency or organizational goals
  • Building partnerships to improve outcomes
  • Examples of working together to solve problems

Track 2

 Leading Through Influence:

In this track, employees will explore skills and strategies for guiding others, building trust, and inspiring change – even when you don’t have formal authority.
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Sessions could include:
  • Building trust and credibility
  • Communicating effectively with different audiences
  • Influencing decisions without direct authority
  • Partnering to drive change
  • Practical leadership skills for any level

Track 3

Human-Centered by Design: 

This track is intended to show how HR programs, policies, or services can be shaped around real employee needs to create fair, supportive, and effective workplaces.

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Sessions could include:
  • Practices that improve the employee experience
  • Approaches to inclusion, fairness, and equity
  • Making HR services or processes easier to use
  • Collecting and using feedback to make improvements
  • Building supportive workplace cultures

Track 4

Learning, Growing, Succeeding:

This track is intended to present ideas for helping employees and HR professionals build skills, learn in new ways, and grow through training, mentoring, or development opportunities. 

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Sessions could include:
  • Supporting professional and leadership growth
  • Identifying and addressing workforce learning needs
  • Creative approaches to employee development
  • Sharing strategies for training, coaching, or mentoring
  • Exploring ways to measure the success of growth efforts
  • New ideas for building skills across the workforce

Track 5

Turning Ideas into Action:  

This track highlights creative problem-solving, using everyday tools in imaginative ways and sharing fresh HR practices that make a real difference. 
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Sessions could include:
 Using tools or technology to improve HR work
 Strategies for solving problems in new ways
 Practical examples of making processes easier
 Applicable examples of improvements in government HR
 Sharing lessons learned from innovation

Track 6

Virtual Track:

This is an opportunity for you to present your presentation to a virtual audience, and interact with them directly. You may present to both an in-person and then again to the virtual audience. Or, there will be limited opportunities for exceptional proposals to present purely to the virtual audience. Your presentation should still fit into Tracks 1-5, even if you are only proposing to present virtually alone.
Thank you to the

2025 OneHR Sponsors

Titanium

Deloitte
KPMG
Servicenow | Carasoft

Platinum

Ansel

Presenting

HRP of CPA
CAPHRA
Commonwealth of PA
Harrisburg University