Business culture is a powerful enabler and never is this more apparent than right now. The way we lead, communicate, support and collaborate has a critical bearing on how successfully our organisations are able to pivot to our "new normal".
Over the course of 2 afternoons, our speakers, who include some of the best and most innovative minds in HR and business today from major UK and international companies, will share how they are dialing up purpose to keep stakeholders engaged; supporting employee wellbeing and learning; maintaining a focus on D&I at a time of significant challenge and reorienting their talent approach.
Keynote Speaker: Author & Workplace Culture Expert, Bruce Daisley
Work Rebooted: Reconstructing work culture after the shock of 2020. How can we create resilient, creative cultures that achieve breakthrough performance.
About the Speaker: Bruce was responsible for the development of Twitter in three continents and previously ran YouTube UK at Google. He is now an author on better working published in Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Wired, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and more.
He runs the top business podcast, Eat Sleep Work Repeat. His first book - about improving work & work culture - was a Sunday Times #1 bestseller and has been translated into 14 languages. His second book The Joy of Work: 30 Ways to Fix Your Work Culture and Fall in Love with Your Job Again was published in Jan 2020 and is now the No. 1 Sunday Times Business Bestseller.
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Key Themes & Insights
Join other business leaders to share in ground-breaking insights from today's major business trends:
1. The transformation of culture at speed and scale
2. A new approach to leadership
3. Putting wellbeing and compassion at the heart of business
4. Building community and evolving approaches to employee listening
5. Digital transformation and the impact of remote working
6. Talent strategies for the new normal
7. HR’s evolving role in the C-Suite
8. Maintaining our commitment to diversity and inclusion
9. Dialling up purpose & being authentically led by our values
10. Reorienting to shifting needs in personal/team learning & development
Conference Programme
13.00-13.10
Welcome: Tim Pointer, Founder, Business Culture Awards
13.10-13.40
Keynote session: “Work Rebooted: Reconstructing work culture after the shock of 2020. How can we create resilient, creative cultures that achieve breakthrough performance.”
Speaker: Bruce Daisley, Author & Business Culture Expert
13.40-14.00
Case Study Interview:
“The New Culture of Leadership”
Speaker: Eugenio Pirri, Chief People and Culture Officer - Global Diversity Champion, Dorchester Collection (Winner Leadership)
Session Themes: Leadership, Values & Behaviours, Inclusion
13.40-14.00
Case Study Interview: “The transformative power of our “People Promise” and how it’s been stress-tested in 2020”
Speaker: Helen Kelley, Internal Communications & Engagement Director, Inmarsat (Winner Employer Brand)
Session Themes: Transformation, Values & Behaviours, Leadership
14.20-14.40
Networking break
14.40-15.20
Panel Discussion: “How are we Making Inclusive Decisions Today?”
Speakers:
Philip Wilson, Chief Psychologist & Chief Assessor, Civil Service Fast Stream (Winner D&I)
Tali Shlomo, Head of Inclusion and Wellbeing, Shearman & Sterling LLP (Judge)
Aggie Mutuma, Group People Director, Argent Foods (Judge)
Session Chair: Fiona Young, Content Director and Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Hive Learning
Session Themes: Diversity & Inclusion, Behaviours, Talent
15.20-16.00
Purpose Masterclass (Live Workshop Discussion): “Your purpose probably isn’t good enough for our new reality”
Atif Sheikh, CEO, businessfourzero
Session Themes: Transformation, Leadership, Leading Change
16.00-16.40
Panel Discussion: "Putting Wellbeing and Compassion at the Heart of How we do Business"
Speakers:
Linda Mountford, Northern Europe Commercial HR Director, Thai Union Group Europe incl. John West Foods (Judge & Winner)
Stephanie Neuvirth, Global Vice President, People and Organization, Mars Veterinary Health, a division of Mars (Judge & Winner)
Ali Mohammed, Executive Director of HR & OD, South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (Judge & Previous Winner)
Session Themes: Wellbeing, Behaviour Change
16.40-16.55
Networking break
16.55-17.35
Panel Discussion: “Creating a Culture of Innovation to Disrupt a Sector”
Speakers:
Darryl Cooke, Executive Chairman, gunnercooke llp. 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 and Managing Director, Wharton Business Consulting (Leadership Winner)
Alastair Barlow, Founder & Chief Dreamer, flinder
Session Themes: Disruption, Innovation, Leading Change, Leadership
17.35-17.55
Case study Interview: “A Cultural Shift to Everyday Learning & Collaboration”
Speaker: John Shurmer, Head of Digital Learning, Barclays (Winner Learning)
Session Themes: Digital Learning, Behaviour Change, Transformation
17.55-18.00
Closing comments, Tim Pointer, Founder, Business Culture Awards
From 18:00
Networking & drinks
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