Sponsorship Prospectus
Coqual
Summit
2026
A senior leadership gathering on the people questions shaping business performance
Date
Friday, December 4, 2026
Location
Cornell Tech | New York City + Virtual
About the Summit
A day for leaders who want
more than inspiration
Coqual Summit brings together senior leaders, member companies, researchers, operators, cultural thinkers, and luminaries to work through the workforce questions companies are facing now.
The questions shaping the day:
- How will AI change judgment, trust, and opportunity?
- How do companies build talent systems that see and move capability?
- What does inclusion need to become inside a changing business environment?
- How do leaders earn trust when employees are skeptical, tired, or uncertain?
- How do organizations design work so more people can contribute at their highest level?
This is a day for leaders who want more than inspiration. It is a working environment for serious conversation, practical insight, and stronger connections across the Coqual community.
Sponsorship
Sponsor Coqual Summit 2026
Show your leadership in the room with the executives shaping how work changes
Companies sponsor Coqual Summit because they want to be visible in a trusted room with senior leaders working through the workforce issues that matter to business now.
Sponsors gain a credible way to:
- Reach senior HR, talent, inclusion, transformation, AI, and business leaders.
- Associate their brand with practical, research-backed thinking.
- Support a respected community of companies shaping the future of work.
- Connect with leaders making decisions about people, technology, trust, and performance.
- Bring useful insights back to internal teams, clients, or executive stakeholders.
22+ years of research. A trusted member community. Conversations leaders cannot have everywhere.
For more than two decades, Coqual has helped companies understand the talent dynamics that shape business performance: belonging, sponsorship, bias, leadership, advancement, identity, trust, inclusion, and employee voice.
Our members come to Coqual for research they can trust, conversations they cannot have everywhere, and a peer community willing to work through difficult questions with candor and care.
The Summit builds on that foundation.
It brings together the people shaping how work changes inside major organizations — and gives sponsors a credible place to stand with them.
Audience
Who will be in the room
A senior, thoughtful audience working on real business questions
Coqual Summit is designed for leaders responsible for how work changes inside organizations.
Expected participants include:
CHROs and chief people officers
Heads of talent, learning, culture, inclusion, and HR transformation
Business leaders shaping workforce strategy
AI, digital, and responsible innovation leaders
B/ERG leaders and executive sponsors
Researchers, luminaries, and cultural thinkers
Coqual members and partner organizations
Virtual participants from global teams
This audience is looking for useful ideas, strong peers, credible partners, and practical ways to bring insight back into the business.
Program
What the day will include
Research, candor, peer exchange, and practical takeaways
The Summit experience will include:
Main Stage
Main-stage conversations with senior leaders, luminaries, and issue experts.
Keynotes
Keynotes that bring fresh perspective to urgent business questions.
Breakouts
Breakout working sessions on specific leadership and workforce challenges.
Virtual Brain Dates
Virtual Brain Dates for peer-led conversations across regions.
Luminary Table
A pre-Summit Luminary Table for select sponsors and contributors.
Connection
Connection moments designed to build trust, not just exchange business cards.
Insights Brief
A post-Summit Insights Brief capturing the questions, themes, and practical ideas surfaced across the day.
The goal is to help leaders leave with sharper questions, better language, useful ideas, and stronger relationships.
Theme Areas
Theme areas sponsors can support
AI, judgment, and accountability
What should remain human as AI becomes part of more decisions?
Talent mobility and sponsorship
How do companies find and move talent when traditional career paths are changing?
Trust and leadership credibility
What do employees need from leaders when confidence is low and change is constant?
B/ERGs and employee voice
How can employee communities help leaders understand what is happening inside the organization?
Neuroinclusion and adaptive work
How should work change so more people can contribute at their highest level?
Demographic change and workforce planning
How should companies prepare for longer lives, caregiving demands, aging workforces, and shifting generations?
Inclusion and business performance
How does inclusion become part of leadership, talent, risk, and performance?
Leadership in uncertainty
How do leaders create clarity when the path is changing?
Sponsorship Levels
Choose the level of support
that fits your goals
Presenting Sponsor
$50,000
Lead supporter of Coqual Summit 2026
For companies that want the strongest visibility across the full Summit experience.
Supports: The full in-person and virtual Summit experience.
- →Top-level recognition across Summit materials
- →Reserved seats for senior executives
- →Recognition from the main stage
- →Participation in the sponsor planning conversation
- →Access to the pre-Summit Luminary Table
- →Early access to the Summit Insights Brief
- →Private post-Summit readout for internal leaders
General Session Sponsor
$25,000
Support a main-stage conversation
For companies that want visibility around one of the central conversations of the day.
Supports: A keynote, panel, interview, or main-stage dialogue with senior leaders, luminaries, or issue experts.
- →Recognition connected to the session
- →Reserved seats for senior leaders
- →Optional executive introduction or framing moment, where appropriate
- →Session takeaways included in the post-Summit readout
Working Session Sponsor
$15,000
Support a conversation where leaders work through a practical question
For companies that want more focused engagement with senior leaders.
Supports: A facilitated breakout or peer working session.
- →Recognition tied to the session
- →Reserved seats in the session
- →Input into the working question
- →Captured takeaways from the conversation
- →Opportunity to nominate a sponsor executive participant, where appropriate
Brain Date Sponsor
$15,000
Support global, virtual peer conversations
Brain Dates give virtual participants a way to host or join small-group conversations around the questions most relevant to their work.
Topics may include AI and human judgment, B/ERG leadership, neuroinclusion, trust, talent mobility, global inclusion, manager capability, leadership in uncertainty, and sponsorship.
- →Recognition in the virtual experience
- →Input into Brain Date prompt categories
- →Seats for global colleagues or clients
- →Summary of common topics and questions from virtual conversations
Luminary Exchange Sponsor
$15,000
Join the pre-Summit conversation that sharpens the day
For companies that want a closer role in shaping the ideas and questions explored at Summit.
Supports: A curated pre-Summit conversation with Coqual leaders, select luminaries, and sponsor participants.
- →Seat at the Luminary Table
- →Input into one question or theme
- →Reserved Summit seats
- →Recognition connected to the Luminary Table
- →Post-Summit takeaways connected to the discussion
Reception or Connection Sponsor
$10,000
Support the moments where relationships form
For companies that want to support the human connection that makes the Summit valuable.
Supports: Breakfast, lunch, reception, curated networking, Big Talk, or other relationship-building moments.
- →Recognition connected to the experience
- →Reserved seats
- →Optional welcome moment, where appropriate
- →Visibility in event materials and onsite signage
Summit Insights Sponsor
$5,000
Support the executive readout from the day
For companies that want the Summit to create something impactful after the Summit.
Supports: A concise Coqual-written executive brief capturing what leaders discussed, questioned, and prioritized.
- →Recognition on the brief
- →Early access to the brief
- →Private readout for internal leaders
- →Reserved Summit seats
- →Opportunity to suggest one question for Coqual to listen for across the day
Sponsor Benefits
What sponsors receive
Visibility, participation, useful takeaways, and a credible room
Sponsor benefits vary by level, but may include:
Recognition across Summit web, email, onsite, and virtual materials
Reserved seats for senior executives
Main-stage or session recognition
Input into a guiding question connected to the sponsored theme or session
Participation in the pre-Summit Luminary Table
Recognition in the Summit Insights Brief
Early access to post-Summit takeaways
Private readout for internal leaders
Opportunities to join relevant sessions, Brain Dates, and peer conversations
Connection with Coqual members, luminaries, and senior leaders
Coqual maintains editorial direction for the Summit agenda and content. Sponsors help shape useful questions. Coqual designs and facilitates the room.
Enterprise Sponsors
For Fortune 500 sponsors
A credible platform for workforce leadership
Coqual Summit gives large enterprises a credible platform to show leadership on the workforce issues already on their executive agenda.
Sponsorship can support:
Employer brand
Executive visibility
Peer connection
Internal learning
Thought leadership
Talent, inclusion, AI, and transformation priorities
A visible commitment to practical, human-centered leadership
Executive visibility
Peer connection
Internal learning
Thought leadership
Talent, inclusion, AI, and transformation priorities
A visible commitment to practical, human-centered leadership
For major companies, the value is clear: stand with a trusted community working through the workforce decisions that will shape the year ahead.
Why It Matters
What sponsorship makes possible
A stronger room and a more useful day. Sponsors help Coqual create:
A senior room for practical workforce conversations
Access for in-person and virtual participants
High-quality main-stage and breakout experiences
Thoughtful peer exchange through Brain Dates and working sessions
Useful post-Summit takeaways leaders can bring back to their organizations
A trusted environment where leaders can ask better questions and compare what they are learning
Sponsors make the Summit stronger. They also gain a credible place to show what they stand for.
Join us at Cornell Tech
December 4, 2026 | New York City + Virtual
The companies shaping work need better places to think together. Coqual Summit gives senior leaders that place.
Sponsors help make the room possible — and gain a credible way to show what they stand for, meet the leaders they want to reach, and understand the workforce questions shaping the year ahead.