Speaking

Performance Management

Stop Managing Performance.
Start Enabling It.

Let's be honest: performance management isn't working. Despite decades of effort, it remains a frustrating, compliance-driven process that few people find valuable, and even fewer see as a driver of performance.

So why are we still doing it?

In this fast-paced session, Edie Goldberg, Ph.D., challenges the status quo and offers a better way forward. Based on research from her book Performance Enablement, she introduces a fundamentally different approach. One that shifts the focus from managing employees to enabling them.

Instead of ratings, reviews, and rigid cycles, performance enablement emphasizes clarity, alignment, support, and continuous development; what people actually need to perform at their best.

This session isn't about tweaking performance management, it's about replacing it. You'll leave with a clear understanding of the shift, why it matters now, and a practical tool to assess where your organization stands.

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In this session, participants will learn:

  • Why traditional performance management is not just broken but misaligned with how work gets done today.

  • The critical shift from coercive control to enabling control and how it fundamentally changes how organizations drive performance.

  • What performance enablement looks like in practice and how to assess where your organization stands today.

  • "One of the best presentations I've attended on this topic. Love the research and background information as well. Thanks!"

  • "This was the best presentation on how to make the change and mostly helpful about how to give the power back to the managers about distribution of salary increase monies to top performers when it isn't clearly based on perf ratings."

  • "This is one of the best webinars I have attended. Timely topic and effective presenter."

Speaking Engagements

2026

Goldberg, E. (June, 2026). How Performance Management is Killing Performance. Philadelphia Society of People & Strategy, Philadelphia, PA.

2026

Goldberg, E. & Colquitt, A. (March 2026).  Why Performance Management Is Broken. The Future of HR Podcast, with J. P. Elliott

2016

Continuous Employee Performance Management: How to Flip the Switch (June, 2016). HR.Com Webinar.

2015

Rethinking Performance Reviews. (October, 2015), San Diego HR Forum, San Diego, CA.

2015

Building a Cycle of Engagement and Development with Re-Calibrated Performance Management (September, 2015). HCI Webinar.

2015

Reimagining Your Approach to Performance Management: New Processes for the Contemporary Workplace (December, 2015). TLNT Webinar.

2015

Reclaim Performance Management. (September, 2015) EmPerform Webinar.

2015

Performance Management for the 21st Century Organization (2015). Presentation at the SHRM Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV.