Ignite your summer with a week of inspiration
The Inspiring Workplaces Summer Series is a free, high-energy virtual event running over five days, with three dynamic speakers each day.
Join us online to hear bold insights and practical strategies designed to energize your thinking, fuel fresh ideas, and ignite meaningful change in your organization. Whether you join for one session or the full series, you’ll walk away empowered, recharged, and ready to elevate your impact at work, all from wherever you are.
Why attend?
- Free and flexible online access
- 15 expert speakers across 5 days
- Actionable insights to improve workplace culture
- Daily motivation to energize your routine
- Ideas you can use immediately to support your people
What to expect…highlights from past sessions
Speakers
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Matt Manners
Founder and CEO
Inspiring Workplaces
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Kamaria Scott
Founder and CEO
Enetic
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Danielle Krischik
Author of The Story Effect | Keynote Speaker | Partner
Knight Agency
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Hassan Tirmizi
OD&D Maverick | Global HR Thought Leader | People & Culture Architect
Ebrahim Khalil Kanoo B.S.C (c)
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Tracy Brower, PhD
VP, Workplace Insight | Author | Senior Contributor at Forbes
Steelcase
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Chris Britton
People Experience Director & Appreciation Expert
Reward Gateway
Agenda
Every day for 1 week
8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London
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July 6
Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London
Dr. Tracy Brower, PhD, MM, MCRW
Vice President of Workplace Insights, Steelcase
Author, The Secrets to Happiness at Work and Bring Work to Life and Critical Connections
Senior Contributor, Forbes and Fast CompanyInspiring Connection: The Power of Community in Work and Life
Things are complex and overwhelming today, but being embedded in a community can provide stability, wellbeing and fulfillment. In this session we’ll talk about what makes community work and how to catalyze and sustain community in work and life. We’ll discuss new research, fresh perspectives and the implications for workplace in the future of work.
Talk 2: 8:30am SFO, 11:30am, NYC, 4:30pm London
Hassan Tirmizi
OD&D Maverick | Global HR Thought Leader | People & Culture Architect
Ebrahim Khalil Kanoo B.S.C (c)From Agility to Coherence: Designing Organizations That Perform Under Pressure
For over a decade, agility has been positioned as the answer to uncertainty. Yet despite significant investment in transformation, many organizations today are faster but more fragmented, with increasing pressure on leaders and teams to keep up.
This session explores a different perspective. The real challenge is not speed, but coherence. When decision rights, governance, and accountability are unclear, organizations create motion rather than progress, especially under pressure.
Drawing on enterprise experience across complex, multi-business environments, this session will outline how leaders can design for coherence through clear decision-making structures, governance alignment, and stability anchors. The focus is practical: how to enable organizations to adapt without fragmentation, and perform without burning out their people.
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July 7
Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London
Kamaria Scott
Founder and CEO
EneticCaring for the People Who Care for Everyone Else at Work
Managers play a central role in shaping the day-to-day experience of work. They are the ones supporting their teams, driving performance, and creating the conditions for engagement to take hold.
But while expectations for managers continue to grow, the experience of being a manager has remained largely unchanged.
In this session, Kamaria Scott explores what it means to truly support the people we rely on most. Drawing on her experience working with organizations to strengthen manager effectiveness, she invites leaders to rethink how engagement is enabled not through one-time initiatives, but through the way work is designed and supported every day.
Participants will explore:
- Why engagement efforts often stall at the manager level
- What managers actually need to sustain care, performance, and connection
- Practical ways to better support managers through clarity, structure, and everyday moments that matter
This session offers a grounded and hopeful perspective on how organizations can better support managers, creating workplaces where both people and performance can thrive.
Talk 2: 8:30am SFO, 11:30am, NYC, 4:30pm London
Chris Britton
People Experience Director & Appreciation Expert
Reward GatewayDriving High Performance Through Appreciation
Seeing people for who they are, not just what they do is a proven way to boost productivity and commercial performance. Helping people feel seen, is the most human thing we can do. Backed by science, research, personal stories and real-life examples, this talk will help the audience understand the value of putting the human being first and why your organisation will benefit, now and in the future.
Key messages:
- The science of appreciation and why it matters now more than ever
- The top drivers of appreciation in the workplace and how to tap into them
- Practical and simple things you can do personally or as a business to create a culture of appreciation
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July 8
Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London
Danielle Krischik
Author of The Story Effect | Keynote Speaker | Partner
Knight AgencyTalk 2: 8:30am SFO, 11:30am, NYC, 4:30pm London
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July 9
Speakers coming soon…
Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London
Talk 2: 8:30am SFO, 11:30am, NYC, 4:30pm London
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July 10
Speakers coming soon…
Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London
Talk 2: 8:30am SFO, 11:30am, NYC, 4:30pm London
Thank you to our 2026 sponsors
Without their support, we would not be able to provide the community and events for free.
