CEO+HR Roundtable Cluj-Napoca
Companies across every sector are under pressure to do more with less. Leaner teams, tighter budgets, unchanged targets. But there's a cost to the cost-cutting that it's not always visible on a spreadsheet.
This roundtable brings together CEOs and HR leaders to ask the harder question: how far can you optimize before you hollow out the very thing that makes growth possible?
AGENDA
The Optimization Trap: How Do Leaders Bring Costs Down While Keeping Employee Morale Up?
10:45 – 11:15 Welcome coffee & Networking
11:15 – 11:20 Intro - Adelina Mihai, Journalist, Revista CARIERE
11:20 - 12:45 Debate. The Optimization Trap: How Do Leaders Bring Costs Down While Keeping Employee Morale Up?
Discussion topics:
How do companies redefine success when targets remain ambitious, but people and budgets are shrinking?
What actually brings joy to employees at work — and how do leaders protect or nurture it during periods of cost pressure?
How do companies stay relevant to your people when you reduce benefits, teams, or roles in the name of optimization?
What should be cut first without compromising the future: headcount, benefits, training, projects, or layers of management?
Where does efficiency end, and where does burnout begin?
What have CEOs and HR leaders learned from previous waves of restructuring?
What is the role of the CEO + HR partnership in times of pressure? Who leads change: the business or the organizational culture?
What are Cluj companies actually planning for 2026 - and is HR ready for it?
Speakers:
Gorkem Oran, Director General, Edenred România
Victoria Constantinescu, CFO, Edenred România
Katalin Karadi, Executive Vice President Finance&Operations, msg România
Iulian Foca, HR Manager, msg România
Bogdan Purcherea, Managing Director and Business Development, Envipco
Ioana Câmpeanu, HR Manager, Envipco
Claudiu Campan, HR Manager, Pehart Grup
Iulia Sbiera Florea, CFO, Pehart Grup
Georgiana Andrei – Muntean, Director Comercial Divizia de Abonamente, Regina Maria
Moderator: Adelina Mihai, jurnalistă, Revista CARIERE
12:45 – 13:15 Q&A Session
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch & Networking