Connection, Direction, Action: Transforming Winning Cultures

15th November, 09.00-16.00
DeVere Grand Connaught Rooms, London

Followed by the 8th Annual Awards Dinner & Winners' Announcement 18.45 - 01.00 GMT

Or View 1-Day Conference on 14th June | "From Hybrid to Connected: Evolving Business Culture"

Our purpose is to enable better working lives and our mission is to celebrate and share outstanding business culture insights that accelerate organisational performance. Join us for a day of learning and connection, alongside HR and other business leaders, and focus on how to create and sustain a positive and purposeful culture in your organisation.

This is followed, for those who wish, by an evening celebration of the best company culture initiatives from UK and multi-national organisations.

Keynote Speaker: Award-Winning Leadership & Management Expert, Wayne Clarke

Session Title & Outline: “Culture Custodians: the critical impact of Managers on shaping your positive, productive culture"
Culture is the sum total of everyday behaviours and actions and managers are tasked with embodying the values you need to see embedded across your teams and organisation. When the daily demands of their roles are more challenging than ever, how can we ensure these lynchpins of our collective success act as positive cultural enablers of trust, empowerment, consistency and mentorship?

About the Speaker: Wayne is the founding partner of the Global Growth Institute, with offices located in the UK, Netherlands, Turkey, Bahrain and Mongolia. With over 20 years’ experience of improving the performance of organisations through enhanced people engagement, he has been recognised 5 times by HR Magazine as one of the ‘Most Influential Thinkers in HR’ globally and works with organisations including the UN, FA and the BBC. The GGI have developed over 30,000 managers in over 30 countries us and Wayne has personally advised over 700 CEOs and leadership teams globally. His first book "World Class Managers" launches in March.

Session Speakers

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Conference Themes

Join other business leaders to share in ground-breaking insights from today's major business trends:

1. Transformation - Equipping leaders and teams to transform culture at speed and/or at scale
2. Values & Behaviours - Disruptive and immersive techniques for sustainable behaviour change to create a cultural shift
3. Working Environments & Practices - Reimagining employee experience and reengaging people in today's workplace
4. Leadership - Embracing new approaches to a support positive, productive culture
5. Wellbeing - Rethinking our strategies post-pandemic
6. Talent - Bold and innovative approaches to attract and empower exceptional people and teams
7. Leading With Purpose - Defining and embedding purpose to engage teams and support business strategy
8. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Building diversity and promoting inclusion organisation-wide
9. Employee Listening - Evolving approaches to listening and acting on data insight
10. The Future of Work - Maximising uniquely human skills for success in a digital world

Conference Programme

8-8.30am
Breakfast & Registration

8.30-8.35am
Welcome, Cath Longfield, Co-Founder, Business Culture Awards

8.35-9.05am
Case study: "Transforming How Current and Future Talent Connect with our Brand"
Speaker: Helen Kelley, Internal Communications & Engagement Director, Inmarsat (Winner Employer Brand)
Session Themes: Talent Attraction & Retention, Employer Brand, EVP

9.05-9.50am
Keynote Session "Why should Anyone Work Here? How to create a culture people want to belong to”
Speaker: Gareth Jones, Author (Harvard Business Review); Professor, London Business School; Visiting Professor, IE Business School, Madrid; Fellow, Centre for Management Development

9.50-10.20am
Case study: "Creating a Culture of Innovation to Engage Front-Line Teams"
Speaker: Elvin Eldic, Global Director, People & Performance Innovation, Travelex (Winner Innovation)
Session Themes: Innovation, Engagement

10.20-10.40am
Coffee & Networking

10.40-11.10am
Overall Winner 2020 Case study: "Our journey from worst to best-performing NHS Trusts with Go Engage"
Speakers: Patti Turfrey, Senior Organisational Psychologist & Helen Roberts, Business Development & Marketing Manager, Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (Overall Winner, Business Culture Awards)
Session Themes: Engagement, Technology & Analytics

11.10-11.40am
Case study [Transformation Stream]: "How Xellia transformed its business culture into a competitive advantage"
Speaker: Bjørn Thonvold, Corporate Vice President People & Organization, Xellia Pharmaceuticals (Winner International)
Session Themes: Transformation, Purpose, Values, Behaviour Change

11.10-11.40am
Case study [Transformation Stream]: "Behavioural Experiments"
Speaker: Catherine Dineley, Head of Group Culture, Lloyds Banking Group (Winner Transformation)
Session Themes: Transformation, Behaviour Change, Customer-centricity

11.40-12.10pm
Panel Discussion: "How to Create Diverse Workplaces & Inclusive Cultures"
Speakers:
Philip Wilson, Chief Psychologist & Chief Assessor, Civil Service Fast Stream (Winner D&I)
Tali Shlomo, Head of Inclusion and Wellbeing, Shearman & Sterling LLP
James Haq-Myles, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Travelex (Winner Innovation)
Session Chair: Fiona Young, Content Director and Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Hive Learning
Session Themes: Diversity & Inclusion, Behaviours, Talent

12.10-1pm
Lunch

1.00-1.30pm
Case study: "A Cultural Shift to Everyday Learning & Collaboration"
Speaker: John Shurmer, Head of Digital Learning, Barclays (Winner Learning)
Session Themes: Learning, Behaviour Change, Transformation

1.30-2pm
Interview [Transformation Stream]: "Creating the case for change when sh*t isn't hitting the fan"
Speakers: Lucinda Pullinger, Global Head of HR, The Instant Group & Kirsty Osborne, Director, businessfourzero (Highly Commended)
Session Themes: Transformation, Agility

1.30-2pm
Interview [Engagement Stream]: "How RB built a Connected Centre of Excellence"
Speakers: Bruce Charlesworth, Chief Medical Officer - Relief, Hygiene and Wellness, Reckitt Benckiser & Jenny Perkins, Head of Engagement, Cirrus (Winner Business Culture Team)
Session Themes: Participative Change, Talent Attraction & Retention, Engagement

2.00-2.30pm
Workshop break-out [Talent Stream]: “How do you engage the People you Need to Move Your Business Forward?” facilitated by Sam Smith, Vice President, Global Solutions, KellyOCG
Session Themes: Talent, Engagement, Innovation

2.30-2.50pm
Coffee & Networking

2.00-2.30pm
Workshop break-out [Transformation Stream]: “How to elevate the role of HR” Kirsty Osborne, Director, businessfourzero
Session Themes: Transformation, Leadership, Leading Change

3.20-3.50pm
Panel Discussion [Engagement Stream]: "Aligning the Organisation to Deliver Customer Excellence"
Speakers:
Steven Cochran, UK Culture Lead, Allied Irish Bank (Highly Commended)
Liz Pannaman, Organisational Development Specialist, Transport for London (Previous Winner)
Paul O'Nions, Head of Business Operations & Support, Sanofi UK (Highly Commended)
Chloe Marsh, Head of Communications, RHP (Previous Winner)
Session Themes: Behaviours, Customer-centricity, Engagement

3.20-3.50pm
Panel Discussion [Innovation Stream]: "Creating a Culture of Innovation to Disrupt a Sector"
Speakers:
Darryl Cooke, Executive Chairman, gunercooke llp, Law. Author of "To Innovate or Not to Innovate? A Blueprint for the Law Firm of the Future" (Business Culture Awards Overall Winner)
Natalie Wharton, Founder & Managing Director, Wharton Business Consulting, Management Consultancy (Winner Leadership)
Alastair Barlow, Founder & Chief Dreamer, flinder (Accounting, Consulting & Data Analytics)
Session Themes: Innovation, Leading Change, Leaderdship

3.50-4.20pm
Panel Discussion [Talent Stream]: “Engaging & Progressing Emerging Talent”
Speakers:
Lena Tailor, Europe Head of People, innocent drinks (Judge & Previous Winner)
Katherine Sale, Director of Operations, Croud (Highly Commended)
Laura Sutherland, HR Business Partner, Volkswagen Group
Session Themes: Talent, Learning, Leadership

3.50-4.20pm
Panel Discussion [Engagement Stream]: "Driving Purpose & Engagement through CSR"
Speakers:
Ali Stripling, Senior Manager, Community and Inclusion ARM (Previous Winner)
Roxy Erickson, Director, Sunbeam Studios (Winner CSR)
Session Themes: Purpose & Meaning, Engagement, Ethics

4.20-4.30pm
Wrap Up – Tim Pointer, Chair of Judges, Business Culture Awards

4.30-5.00pm
“Behind the Scenes” Tour of Lord’s Cricket Ground

5.00-6.00pm
Drinks & Networking at Lord’s Tavern

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"Businesses forget about culture and ultimately they suffer for it because you can’t have good service from unhappy employees.”

Keynote Speaker: Wayne Clarke

Session Title & Outline: “5 Workplace Trends - and How Great Cultures Will Adapt to Them"
Three years into hybrid working, the changes impacting work keep on coming - from greater flexibility to the latest AI tool. Thinking of how we adapt to this change will help us shape winning workplace cultures for the future, Bruce Daisley gives a survival guide.

About the Speaker: Bruce Daisley is a best selling author and technology leader from the UK. He has become regarded as one the most respected thought leaders on the subject of workplace culture and the future of work. His prior business career saw him spend 12 years running Twitter in Europe and previously YouTube in the UK. He left Twitter as its most senior leader outside of the US.

In 2022 his second book, Fortitude, became a smash top 5 bestseller in the Sunday Times charts, following the remarkable success of his debut title, The Joy of Work, also a Sunday Times No. 1 business bestseller.

"Thank you to you and everyone who helped organise the Business Culture Conference – it was simply brilliant! I have taken away a few high quality ideas to consider for our organisation.”

General Manager, Catalina
"I am writing to congratulate you on running such a successful event– I am very impressed that, from a standing start in March, you managed to organise everything so smoothly and provide such high quality sessions.”

Partner, Blake Morgan
"Thanks a lot to the whole Business Culture Connected team for organizing such an awesome event despite all the difficulties!”

Global Program Manager–Office of Values & Culture, UST
"Thanks for the wonderful two days packed with industry insights and wanted to say a massive congratulations to you for organising the event. Great line-up of speakers and topics with slick and to the point discussions... Fab work!”

Key Details

Date - Wednesday 15th November, 2023

Conference - 09:00 - 16:00, showcasing more than 15 unmissable Case Study presentations & discussions featuring senior practitioners.

Plus, opt to attend the evening Awards Dinner - 18:45 - 01:00, celebrating the forward-thinking organisations who are judged the 2023 Winners. (More details available shortly).

Venue - Cornwall & Crown Suites (Day Conference) & Grand Hall & Balmoral Suites (Evening Awards Dinner), DeVere Grand Connaught Rooms, 61-65 Great Queen St, London WC2B 5DA.

How to get there - DeVere Grand Connaught Rooms is 5 minutes from Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line) and Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines) tube stations. a 30 minute walk or short taxi ride from Kings Cross, St Pancras & Euston train stations

View DeVere Grand Connaught Rooms on map here

Conference Agenda

8:45-9:00 Registration

9:00 - 9:15 xxx Tim Pointer, Chair of Judges

9:15 - 9:45 Keynote from current Overall Winner, xxx, Dr Carly Telford, Senior Organisational Psychologist & Helen Roberts, Business Development & Marketing Manager (Go Engage), Wrightington Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (Overall Winner, Winner Technology & Analytics and Winner Public/Not-For-Profit 2020) Engagement, Technology

9:45-10:45 xxx, Elvin Eldic, Global Director, People & Performance Innovation (Winner Innovation) Engagement, Innovation

10:45-11:15 xxx, Helen Constantine, Talent Delivery Manager & Anthony Walker, Director, Sainsbury's + t-three (Winner Next Generation 2020) Next Generation

11:15-11:35 Coffee & Networking

11:35-12:05 xxx, Catherine Dineley, Head of Group Culture, Lloyds Banking Group - Group Culture (Winner Transformation 2020) Transformation

12:05-12:35 xxx, Eugenio Pirri, Dorchester Collection (Joint Winner Leadership 2020) Leadership, Purpose & Values

12:35-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Break out session 1 - XXX, Sheridan Orr, Chief Marketing Officer, CultureIQ TBC

2:00-2:30 xxx, Helen Kelley, Internal Communications & Engagement Director, Inmarsat (Winner Employer Brand & Values 2020) Purpose & Values

2:30-3:00 xxx, Linda Mountford, Northern Europe Commercial HR Director, John West Foods (Winner Learning 2019) Learning

3:00-3:30 xxx, Bjørn Thonvold, VP Human Resources, Xellia Pharmaceuticals (Winner International) Transformation

3:30-4:00 xxx, Sarah Elsy, Content Curation & Campaign Lead & Fiona Young, Content Director and Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Barclays + Hive Learning (Winner Learning 2020) Learning, Technology

4:00-4:30 xxx, Alexandra Pierce & Theo Keane, Domestic & General + businessfourzero (Highly Commended Team 2020)

4:30-6:00 Networking Drinks

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Awards Dinner Tickets - Option for all Conference Guests

£350 Individual
£225 Individual Non-Profit
£3,400 Standard Table of 10
£3,895 Premium Table of 10
(Prices exclude VAT, applicable for UK bookings)

Individual or group tickets, or whole tables, for the Awards Dinner
Sparkling wine or fresh juice drinks reception
Exquisite three course dinner
Drinks at the table - half bottle of wine, or 2 soft drinks, or 2 bottles of beer per person
Evening entertainment and networking
Quieter networking and prayer spaces available
Live band and disco until 1am
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