Previous Business Culture Events
Your business culture underpins how strategically aligned, engaged and productive your colleagues are on a daily basis, and whether they choose to stay with you over your competitors. It’s one of the top drivers for the right talent to join you, and it’s the differentiator in how you deliver your products or services to your customers.
Through Business Culture Connected & Awards events, winning organisations articulate the value in the brand experience being joined up externally and internally and share their exceptional approach through peer-to-peer learning.
Webinar: People and Culture: The New Operating Model for HR and Leadership
Explore the rapid transformation of traditional HR into a forward-thinking, people and culture function. It's more than a rebranding. It's a comprehensive reimagining of how businesses operate to foster purpose, values alignment, and employee-centred growth....
Awards Night 2024
An unmissable evening of celebration and laughter for 110+ forward-thinking UK & International organisations who have taken notable steps to creating a stand-out business culture. Hosted by top-class compere Jo Caulfield...
Executive Breakfast: How to inspire a change-ready culture
Expert practitioners Corporate Punk and Invesco facilitated a debate on the theme “How to inspire a change-ready culture”. Our session leaders are Business Culture Award Winners and their insights help you think through a clear and practical framework to ensure that your own organisation is change ready...
Webinar: The wellbeing paradox: Balancing benefits and the bottom line
Supporting people’s health and wellbeing sits at the heart of positive and productive workplace cultures and has become critical as employees grapple with pressures both in and outside of work: navigating change, learning new skills, or managing complex financial situations...
Webinar: Managing for growth: How to equip your managers to drive business success
The importance of line managers in creating more engaged and higher-performing teams is commonly accepted. But their influence is arguably even more far-reaching in fast-growth businesses, SMEs and challenger brands...
Webinar: UK Workplace Culture Study 2024
This is the largest ever study of UK Corporate Culture, with a comprehensive exploration of perspectives, engaging with over 6,400 individuals from diverse backgrounds across the UK. Spanning over 30 industries and encompassing all age groups, the study captures a panoramic view of the nation's sentiments and insights...
Webinar: Values-Driven Cultures
Values-driven cultures are the heart of building safe, inclusive and purpose-driven businesses that make a positive contribution to people and the planet. More than that, they are critical to driving high performance, attracting top talent, building trust and protecting reputation...
Conference, May 2024
Speakers from BT Group, AXA Health, TFL, British Heart Foundation, Standard Chartered Bank, SAGA and more, shared stories of speak-up culture, talent attraction and retention, creating & sustaining a vibrant culture and changing mindsets in readiness for the future of work.
Webinar: Delivering Successful Change
Change is tough and can sometimes even be unwelcome. Mindsets and behaviours need to be changed and it’s a gradual process which needs to take into account different segments of the workforce with different needs.
Webinar: Stress Management & Wellbeing
Our greatest assets are our people. So how do we take a proactive approach to deal with the problem rather than the symptoms of stress which are affecting output and ultimately business performance in many organisations today, alongside existing mental health interventions?
Awards Night 2023
Multi-national businesses, to start-ups, to non-profits, rubbed shoulders to celebrate the strides taken in purpose, performance, inclusion, wellbeing, learning and how this has evolved their workplace culture for the better. We invite you to join these forward-thinking organisations in 2024.
Conference, November 2023
Speakers from Swiss Re, Civil Service, Mitie, The Savoy, Metro Bank, Oracle and more, shared stories of business transformation, behaviour change, talent attraction and retention and how best to engage employees across complex organisations and a VUCA world.
Conference, June 2023
30+ speakers including some of the best and most innovative minds in HR and business today from Openreach, AECOM, Sage, and Lloyds Banking Group shed light on the different approaches these companies have taken to create and sustain a high-performance culture.
Awards Night 2022
HR and other business leaders from more than 110 different organisations attended on the night, including the 90+ outstanding organisations who were shortlisted. It was an evening of celebration and laughter for all the teams involved to reflect on their hard work and achievements.
Business Culture Connected Virtual Conference
With 35+ speakers including business leaders from Barclays, Sanofi, NHS, Reckitt Benckiser and Civil Service, insight was shared on culture during change, purpose, values & behaviours and aligning culture with strategy to accelerate performance.
Event at Dr. Marten's London HQ
An event focused on building exceptional culture during times of change, with speakers from Dr. Marten's, innocent drinks, both Business Culture Award Winners, and Event Partner CultureIQ; followed by networking drinks at Dr. Marten's iconic Camden HQ.
D&I Webinar: Financial Times
Learn how the FT achieved gender parity throughout the organisation and evolved their D&I strategy to diversify their customer base. Hear from speakers Priscilla Baffour, Global Head of D&I, FT and Fiona Young, Content Director and Head of D&I, Hive Learning.
Event hosted by Metro Bank
With presentations from 4 top brands on their approaches to culture and engagement. Hosted by speaker Danny Harmer, CPO at Metro Bank, with Amber Kelly, People & Culture Director at Post Office, and the chance to see first-hand the unique culture at Metro Bank.
Event hosted by IBM, with Overall Winners XPO Logistics
Hosted by IBM on London's Southbank, in conjunction with Lead Partners KellyOCG, we heard how XPO's people and business strategies were aligned during a period of complex change and transformation. 2019 Finalists were also announced Live at the event.
Awards Night
This took place in the magnificent Grand Hall at the DeVere Grand Connaught Rooms, in London's West End, to celebrate organisations prioritising their culture. To ensure we could be as inclusive as possible, during Covid-19, a virtual event took place alongside.
D&I Webinar: Civil Service
The Civil Service Fast Stream and Ambitious about Autism share how they have armed neurodiverse employees and interns with confidence, knowledge and tools to thrive at work. With key speaker Phil Wilson, Chief Psychologist & Chief Assessor, Civil Service Fast Stream.
Virtual Round Tables
We hosted a number of invite-only virtual roundtables for CPO's and HRD's to enable networking and learning from each other's challenges and responses in the face of Covid-19, including wellbeing, remote and flexible working, leading organisational momentum during crisis.
Virtual Awards Event
Alongside interviews with our Judges and previous winners and a cocktail/mocktail making masterclass, we unveiled the latest Business Culture Awards Winners at two virtual events.
Webinar with tech company intY
Addressing a historic “command and control” culture, intY’s CEO Craig Joseph and CPO Becky Hunt worked to transform the ways of working and the physical workspace at intY. Discover the approach they took and the impact on company performance and results.
Event hosted by Kellogg
The event held at Kellogg's HQ, Media City UK, focussed on Invigorating Business Culture & Growth through Agility & Innovation. As well as presentations from the Agility Power Team at Kellogg, we heard the inspirational story of one of our Overall Business Culture Award Winners, gunnercooke.
Event hosted by Leathwaite
An after-work learning and networking event about how to create exceptional workplaces and empowered people with Business Culture Award winning speakers from Happy, Ela World, plus our event Partner Aegis.
Summer Party with myHRcareers
The Business Culture Awards teamed up with myHRcareers & CultureIQ for an Summer evening's informal networking. Head of Learning & Talent at Pernod Ricard, Ashley Wickham-Byrne shared her experience of working within complex global organisations.
Awards Night
The Awards Dinner took place at the 5 Star Royal Garden Hotel, London, attended by HR and other business leaders from over 110 organisations, including Finalists, Judges and Partners. The evening was hosted by actor, writer and producer, Sally Phillips, with entertainment provided by the Mariachis.
Event with John West & Home Office
Hosted by Kate-Griffiths- Lambeth at Charles Stanley, herself a Business Culture Award Winner, case study presentations from John West, Home Office and KellyOCG focused on building diverse and inclusive cultures and aligning people with strategy.
Webinar on Building a Culture of Innovation
Michael Britt, VP of the Energy Innovation Centre at Southern Company, a market leader in the US energy sector, explains how the company engaged over half its 30,000 employees in developing innovations over a relatively short period and how these ideas were brought to fruition.
Awards Night
An evening of celebration and laughter for all the organisations present to reflect on their achievements; and for our Finalists, Judges and Event Partners to connect with like-minded professionals. The evening was hosted by the award-winning stand-up comedian, corporate speaker, screenwriter and executive coach Deborah Frances-White.
See earlier events here: Breakfast Event with Arm, Mencap & the Culture Builders, Breakfast Event with Financial Times & Dimensions, Event with Overall Winners Lindt & Sprungli and XPO Logistics, Event hosted by AECOM with TfL and Home Office, Event with Vodafone, Next Jump & Coventry University London, Breakfast Event with Charles Stanley, RHP & Revium Group