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Inspiring Workplaces Summer Series

The Inspiring Workplaces Summer Series is a free month long event of case studies and influencer talks. – Breaking the monotony of our lockdown routine into daily bitesize chunks.

From July 6th, each weekday, at the same time and same place, we will be putting on an award winning case study or inspiring influencer talks for you to view, engage with and learn from.

The speakers will bounce back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean each day. Inspirers will be able to engage with them during the live stream or download the content afterwards. So mark the day and time in your calendar for a daily dose of summertime inspiration throughout July. It might even extend right through to the end of August.

Why attend?

It’s free

for our community

20 Events

daily livestreams

World Class

speakers from around the world

Case Studies

from award-winning brands

On-Demand

content for registered attendees

Content on

Culture, EX, Comms, HR, Leadership…

Our Agenda

As mentioned, The Summer Series will be streamed here at the same time every day in July. These times are:

9 am – San Francisco
12 pm – NYC
5 pm – London
6pm – Berlin
Midnight – Singapore
We recommend downloads for our friends in Australasia

Week 1

06 July 2020

Chester Elton, Best Selling Author
CultureWorks
Leading with Gratitude in times of crisis

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07 July 2020

Denise Reed Lamoreaux, Global Chief Diversity Officer
Atos (past North American award winner)
Removing gender bias from performance feedback

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08 July 2020

Debra Corey, Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Consultant
DebCo HR LTD
Bringing Your Values Out to Play During and After the Pandemic

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09 July 2020

David Beeney, Founder
Breaking the Silence
Driving Employee energy in challenging times

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10 July 2020

Aaron Hurst, Best-selling author – The Purpose Economy
Imperative
From Engagement to Fulfilment

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Week 2

13 July 2020

Kim Seeling-Smith, CEO, Ignite Global
The Unified Theory of Everything People: Build and retain your 2030 workforce.

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14 July 2020

Steph Ryter, Creative Culture Leader
Arity
Case Study: How Arity became a multiple North American Inspiring Workplace winner

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15 July 2020

Katerina Psychopaida
Sirota
The New Shape of Work: A holistic view on Employee Experience post-pandemic

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Watch the free gig with Intimo

16 July 2020

Aimee Lucas, Senior Principal Analyst
The XM Institute
The Human Experience Cycle

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17 July 2020

Dr. Russell Robinson
Top 101 EE Influencer
Employee Voice

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Week 3

20 July 2020

Melanie Small, Solutions Director TWM
Sarah Hobbs, Managing Director, Talent & Potential
Bursting Career Myths and Building Career Activists

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21 July 2020

Keith Hatter
Founder, Planet K2
Employee Engagement 2.0

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22 July 2020

David Zinger, CEO: Chief Engagement Officer
Zinger Associates
Engage 2020: Moving Beyond the Failures of Employee Engagement

Watch free gig with Dasha & Dave

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23 July 2020

One day break – our CEO is getting married!

24 July 2020

Panel Debate: How to talk about race in the workplace

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Week 4

27 July 2020

Day Break

28 July 2020

Sao Gorguiera
A2Dominion (2019 Inspiring Workplace of the Year – UK & Europe)
Case Study: How A2Dominion engages its workforce

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29 July 2020

Gethin Nadin, Director – Employee Wellbeing
Benefex
Employee Financial Wellbeing: Lessons From Recessions

Watch free gig with Joe & Ben

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30 July 2020

Damon Klotz, Work Culture Evangelist, Culture Amp
Barb Bidan, SVP of Global Talent, Peloton
Measuring the Employee Experience at Peloton, an Inspiring Workplace

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31 July 2020

Day Break

Week 5

3 August 2020

Perry Timms, Founder and Chief Energy Officer
PTHR
The Energized (Dispersed) Workplace – designing organisations where people flourish

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4 August 2020

Carol Abade Group CEO
Exp
Clues to the minds of African millennials

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5 August 2020

Kate Pritchard, Head of Engagement & Leadership
Questback
Thriving in the new normal

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6 August 2020

Jenni Cruickshank – Employee Engagement Specialist
Driving Change for Sovereign Housing

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7 August 2020

Alex Allen – Global Director Inclusion & Collaboration
Cisco CX and Sales & Marketing
Building an Inclusive and Conscious Culture Through Leadership Engagement

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Summer Series Speakers

Chester Elton
#1 Bestselling Author

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Sarah Meurer
Head of Internal Comms
Nestle

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Viv McSweeney
Head of EX & Employer Brand
Harrods

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Jason Lauritsen
Keynote Speaker, Author, and Consultant

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One of today’s most influential voices in workplace trends, Chester Elton has spent two decades helping clients engage their employees to execute on strategy, vision, and values.

He has been called the “apostle of appreciation” by Canada’s Globe and Mail, “creative and refreshing‚” by the New York Times, and a “must read for modern managers” by CNN. Elton is co-author of the multiple award-winning New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling leadership book, All In, The Carrot Principle, and The Best Team Wins.

Sarah is a Communications Director with 20 years of experience in corporate communications specialising in strategy and planning. She is currently Internal Head of Communications at Nestle. Sarah’s other specialities include: Corporate communications and change management, Internal Communications, Customer Communications Innovation and Development, Employee/Brand Experience, Employee and Consumer events, Creative/Content Development and Production and Project Management.

Viv McSweeney is Head of Employer Brand and Employee Experience at Harrods where she has worked for two years. For the past 18 months, Viv and the team have been working on developing and launching a new employer brand and set of values for Harrods which launched in February 2019. Since the launch, the team have been working hard to embed the new values and people promises as well as creating colleague connections to Harrods’ purpose. Viv is passionate about storytelling and will share how Harrods used the power of storytelling to launch their work and how they continue to use stories to keep it alive.

Jason Lauritsen is a keynote speaker and employee engagement expert. His passionate, engaging and thought-provoking style will challenge you to think differently. Jason has been described as “a corporate executive gone rogue.” For nearly a decade, he spent his days as a corporate Human Resources executive where he developed a reputation for driving business results through talent. Most recently, he led the research team for Quantum Workplace’s Best Places to Work program where he has studied the employee experience at thousands of companies to understand what the best workplaces in the world do differently than the rest.

Russell Robinson
Civil Servant, Researcher and Founder
Amplified Research

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Ken Oehler
Senior Partner
Kincentric

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Dan Turner
Founder
TCG

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Denise Reed Lamoreaux
Global Chief Diversity Officer
Atos

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Russell Robinson is an Experienced Director Organizational Development with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. He is skilled in Employee Engagement, Empowerment, Change Management and Communications Strong healthcare services professional with a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) focused in Human Organizational Learning from The George Washington University.

Ken is the author of multiple Kincentric reports, including the Global Trends in Employee Engagement Report that draws on research from Kincentric’s employee survey database with responses from over 25 million global employees. Most of this research has been covered in outlets such as Fortune, Fox Business, Human Resource Executive, Market Watch and World at Work. He has also published in outlets such as Harvard Business Manager, Harvard Business Review, Workforce Solutions Review, and Workspan.

Dan Turner founded TCG in 1994 by happy accident because he was looking for a job when NIH needed a contractor to build one of government’s first web applications. Despite the surprise start, he threw himself into building TCG because he believes government can do extraordinary things when supported by the right knowledge and technologies. Today’s TCG is a product of the company’s Core Values, which reflect Dan’s own. Under his leadership, the company is recognized by customers and employees as a Federal IT advisory services industry leader, with a culture focused on delivering smart solutions for programs of national importance.

Denise Reed Lamoreaux is the Global Chief Diversity Officer at Atos with a proven track record of producing extraordinary results. Based in Rochester, New York, Denise has been involved in diversity and learning-related endeavors for 30 + years. Her career has encompassed Secondary Education, Professional Leadership Coaching, Leadership, and Instructing at both the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and Monroe Community College’s Corporate College program.

Daniel Riley
Partner and Culture & Engagement Practice Leader
Kincentric

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Aaron Hurst
Founder
Imperative

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São Gorgueira
Head of L&D
A2Dominion

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David Beeney
Founder
Breaking the Silence

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Dan Riley has more than 20 years of experience in the HR and technology industry. Dan co-founded Modern Survey in 1999 until 2016 when the company was sold to Aon and served as its Chief Operating Officer. He was responsible for the innovative and disruptive vision and strategy. Dan has an extensive understanding of how technology and people strategy can be successfully applied to common business problems and will help organizations achieve the benefits of such strategies while maximizing the value of their people to transform company culture and create a better working world.

Aaron Hurst is the foremost expert on the science of purpose and fulfillment at work. In 2014, he brought global awareness to the rise of the fourth economic era in history, the Purpose Economy. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Imperative, the platform that connects and supports employees as peer career coaches. Previously, as the founder of the Taproot Foundation, Aaron catalyzed the $15 billion pro bono service market. He has written for or been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg TV, Fast Company and was named a LinkedIn Influencer. He is a third-generation graduate of the University of Michigan.

São Gorgueira leads the L&D and Engagement team at A2Dominion. São set up the function for A2D and it has taken it from an effective service delivery function to an award winning, externally accredited centre of excellence. She is driven by results that make a difference – a positive difference to someone’s working life and environment or simply make a “good” difference to someone’s day. São is passionate about learning as a continuum and not just something you do by design only. Curiosity, challenge, innovation and renovation are the staples of her working life.

David has committed the rest of his working life to reduce the stigma of mental health in the workplace. David helps employers gain a greater understanding of how they can best support their employees.

David enjoyed a successful career in newspapers and magazines for over 30 years and was General Manager of a regional daily newspaper and Commercial Director for Auto Trader. David always knew that he wanted to do something different at the latter end of his career, he just didn’t know what would be! He now feels he has found true purpose in life and wants to make a positive difference to fellow mental health sufferers.

Katerina Psychopaida
Practice Lead, EX Solutions
Mercer-Sirota Europe

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Jaya Kiran Satish
HR Manager
HCL Technologies

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Kelly Allison
Founder & CEO
KVA

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Keith Hatter
CEO
Planet K2

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Katerina is a Business Psychologist and the Practice Leader for Employee Engagement and Experience at Mercer-Sirota Europe. She has deep international experience in the design and development of employee feedback and engagement programmes and helps HR and Executives drive business performance and goals. She specialises on the links between leader personality & behaviour with employee engagement and business performance. She works with global MNCs like Santander, Michelin, Burberry and others on evolving their engagement programmes.

Jaya in her current role leads Sales HR function for EMEA and heads Country HR for HCL Technologies, a MNC It Services company, in UK, Ireland and South Africa. She completed an MBA from India and currently pursuing a Masters in HRM from Department of Management at London School of Economics (LSE). Her strong passion to work across diverse workforce reflects in the international experience she has across Asia, APAC and Europe over the past 19+ years of her professional career.

Kelly Allison founded KVA, a digital comms and brand experience agency, in 2013 with the aim of creating a culture of giving back to her employees. Having worked agency side for over 20 years, she experienced the pressures first hand and founded KVA to challenge agency norms, genuinely put people first and break down the ‘them and us’ culture often seen in SMEs.

Recently named as a Top 10 UK entrepreneur by Entrepreneur Magazine, Kelly believes in treating people equally, allowing ideas from all levels of experience to be heard. She is passionate about creating diverse, innovative, forward thinking teams which allow everyone to grow and thrive both on a personal and a professional level.

Keith Hatter founded K2 in 2003 after spending over 20 years in the corporate arena. As a Chartered Surveyor, he was a partner in a Central London real estate consultancy before a rollercoaster ride as the 26-year-old MD of the UK’s first national self-storage business and then 10 years as a Divisional MD in an FTSE 100 business employing 25000 people and where he was lucky to be surrounded by lots of hard-working, clever and talented people. He stuck close to them in the hope that some of it might rub off.

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