WorkBuzz Live 2024

Why should you attend WorkBuzz Live! 2024?

Explore HR’s biggest employee engagement challenges moving into 2025.
Hear best practice advice from HR experts.
Learn more about the future of employee engagement platforms with a reveal of how WorkBuzz is developing a platform to address future workforce requirements.
Deep dive into our new State of Employee Engagement 2024/25 research with insights from over 600 HR professionals.
Network with industry experts and your peers.
After-show drinks reception with a special guest speaker.

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The Future of Real-World Insights
to inspire the Everyday Heroes workforce

2024 has brought another tsunami of challenges and opportunities for the future of work. Organizations face continuing socio-economic uncertainty, acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI), and greater competitive intensity, all underpinned by a prolonged struggle to retain and attract talent.

For organizations with a significant number of deskless employees, obtaining a clear understanding of what is really happening in these critical ‘Everyday Hero’ employee experiences bring their own set of challenges. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Over the next five years, the power of real-world insights will become increasingly nuanced as workforce dynamics shift. The potent combination of increased age diversity and a heavy AI footprint will disproportionately affect deskless workers. Why? Of the approximately 3.32 billion workers worldwide, 81% have deskless or frontline roles. This will be more complex as five to six generations of employees are expected to work side-by-side in the next decade. So, how will organizations stay one step ahead?

Employee insights from the real world will be the difference.

Traditional employee listening and engagement strategies need to evolve as the impact of workforce changes is already hitting the bottom line. According to Business Leadership Today, the cost is already estimated at half a billion per year and compounding for those who don’t listen, engage, and take positive action. HR professionals now have the power to reveal real-world insights and share those insights across their organization, enabling leaders and their managers to act with clarity on the areas that matter now and proactively address potential future impact.

Join us for WorkBuzz Live! 2024 and learn from HR experts and peers to discover how they are already harnessing The Future of Real-World Employee Insights.

Agenda

11:30 - 12:00	Arrival
12:00 - 12:30	Networking with Lunch
12:30 - 12:45	Welcome and Introduction
12:45 - 13:45	The Future of Real-World Insights Steven Frost, CEO and Founder, WorkBuzz & Lewis North, Chief Technology Officer, WorkBuzz Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now mainstream and there is a golden opportunity to get to real-world employee insights faster over the coming years. With HR teams at full capacity and People Leaders having less time to analyse and digest survey results, this double-sided problem is already impacting the bottom line. AI can solve this. It starts by placing valuable insights into the hands of all People Leaders in a way that works for them. A way that creates time, so they can prioritise with purpose. A way that doesn’t need yet another dashboard of scores and statistics. This session will demonstrate how AI will revolutionize employee engagement and you will see it here, first.
13:45 - 14:30	The State of Employee Engagement 2024/25: Customer Panel with Q&A With panel members from San Carlo, Reconomy and Constellation Cold Logistics, this session will be facilitated by Melisaan Foster, Chief Experience Officer, WorkBuzz Our fifth edition of The State of Employee Engagement report is live and offers insights into the priorities of more than 600 HR professionals. In this panel discussion, HR leaders from our client base will be sharing their thoughts on the report, putting the results into real-world perspective, and sharing their experiences with our audience.
14:30 - 16:15	HR Power Workshop Facilitated by Perry Timms, Founder & Chief Energy Officer, PTHR
16:15 - 16:45	Keynote: Five Generations at Work: How we win together, for good Rebecca Robins; leading advisor, changemaker and expert at the intersection of brand, culture, and leadership. For the first time in history, five generations are working together. That diversity is a powerful force multiplier – if we know how to unlock it. At WorkBuzz Live! 2024, we are thrilled Rebecca Robins, a renowned advisor and expert, will be joining us as our keynote speaker. Rebecca will delve into insights from her latest book, co-authored with Patrick Dunne OBE, which shares the same title as her session. Rebecca will spotlight compelling case studies from various industries around the world, revealing how to leverage generational diversity to create a more collaborative and competitive organization. Her session cuts right through the stereotyped discourse and gets to the heart of actionable strategies and sustainable solutions that will benefit everyone in the room. What’s more, attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Rebecca and Patrick’s book during the Networking Session from 17:00 - 19:00 as the conversation continues into the evening!
16:45 - 17:00	Wrap up and final questions
17:00 - 19:00	Drinks Reception and Networking
17:20 - 17:45	Bonus Session: Why has Employee Well-being become the Number One HR Priority? Ben Moss, Senior Business Psychologist and Director, Business Wellbeing Expert Limited, in conversation with Ryan Tahmassebi, People Science Director, WorkBuzz Employee well-being is now cited as the foremost HR priority. In the post-pandemic landscape, workers are seeking employers who prioritize their physical, mental, and emotional health. Robust well-being initiatives, from comprehensive healthcare benefits to mental health support and work-life balance programs, are increasingly popular for retaining (and for that matter, attracting) talent. But there are some paradoxes to consider related to generational needs and the new world of work with AI becoming increasingly woven into everyday employee life. Join us for this interactive session to explore the 'why' behind this recent phenomenon over your drink of choice and a bite to eat.

Rebecca Robins

Organizational Changemaker working at the intersection of brand, culture and leadership.

Rebecca has over 20 years of experience across the world, with leading global businesses (including brands such as AstraZeneca, JLR, LEGO, and LVMH) and founders and family businesses. Five Generations at Work is her third book, including the best-selling Meta-luxury: Brands and the Culture of Excellence. Her transformative work on culture, change and the five-generation workplace has led to her work with business schools and in executive education, including collaboration with programmes at Cambridge University, Oxford University and The St Gallen Symposium. She is also an advisor to Quilt.Ai, (heralded by The Economist as a leading AI for good company). Education is at the heart of Rebecca’s non-profit and wider commitments, including on the advisory of The Chartered Management Institute, and serving as Board Trustee of The EY Foundation. Rebecca holds two degrees from Cambridge University.

Perry Timms

Founder & Chief Energy Officer, PTHR

Perry is a 5x nominated HR Most Influential Thinker, ranking number 1 in 2022. His mission is to see more people flourish through their work and help shift organizations into a force for societal good (not just profit machines). He is a Chartered Member of the CIPD, published author, global speaker, adviser and conference chair on the Future of Work and HR, and a visiting fellow at a number of universities and business schools. Alongside this, he advises clients in organizational design & development, behavioral change, business transformation, and creating innovative ways of working, delivered through close collaboration with HR and OD teams.

Ben Moss

Senior Business Psychologist and Director, Business Wellbeing Expert Limited

An experienced Business Psychologist and leader, Ben started his career at Thornhills, a leadership development consultancy, before moving to Greater Manchester Police as Principal Occupational Psychologist. From there, he joined Sir Cary Cooper's wellbeing firm, Robertson Cooper, where roles included Wellbeing Solutions Consultant, Head of Product Development and Director of Business Development and Marketing. In 2010, he was appointed Managing Director, leading on proposition, growth and supporting talent development. In 2021, he led the business through its acquisition by the handl Group.

Ben’s deep understanding of organisational health and wellbeing, allied to his experience of working with global client organisations, make hm a trusted source of expertise and advice for businesses who want to get health and wellbeing right. Having recently left Robertson Cooper he now supports clients via Business Wellbeing Expert Limited.

Melisaan Foster

Chief Experience Officer, WorkBuzz

Melisaan is an experienced consultant in employee experience, engagement, diversity & inclusion, and communications with a demonstrated history of working across a variety of sectors and regions. She is an MCIPR Accredited PR Practitioner and CIIC. Melisaan was awarded Customer Success Rising Star EMEA 2022, a Mark of Excellence - Outstanding Young Communicator, CIPR Excellence awards, and has been recognised as an Inspiring Leader. She is responsible for leading the WorkBuzz Client Success & Experience team to help businesses build great company cultures by gaining feedback from their people.

Ryan Tahmassebi

People Science Director, WorkBuzz

Starting his career as a Business Psychologist in 2012, Ryan has spent over a decade supporting hundreds of businesses to create cultures characterized by positive, psychologically healthy, and thriving employees. During that time he has held several leadership roles, both in-house and agency side, and is currently our Director of People Science at WorkBuzz. His experience includes working with Director-level professionals to develop people strategies which are truly impactful for both the business and each employee, and over the past few years has led employee experience and culture research programmes for Tesco, British Airways, Nestle, and the NHS. Ryan is a regular speaker on the topic of employee experience and culture, and in 2019 delivered a session at Amazon's Global Employee Experience Summit at their HQ in Seattle.

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Two minutes from Tower Hill Tube Station
Four minutes from Fenchurch Street rail and Tower Gateway DLT stations
Nearest car park is Tower Hill (Lower Thames Street) which has 110 spaces, including 13 disabled spaces.

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