Sam McCool, CEO & Founder, www.sammccool.com.au

Rodrigo Pizarro, Managing Director, L’Oreal Australia

• Aligning human resources with your overall organisational strategy
• The nexus of CEO, HR and Communications leadership
• HR value creation and business performance

Anthony Mitchell, Chairman and Chief Potential Officer, Bendelta

The events of the last two years have massively accelerated some trends, and flipped others on their heads. The evolution of organisational form, culture, conduct and ways of working is now happening faster than at any point in our lifetimes.

What must all organisations do to survive and thrive and how must leaders change their mindsets and behaviours, as well as their people’s, to ensure success?

Gus Worland, Founder/ Director, Gotcha4life

• Mental Fitness - with the focus on building emotional muscle, and social connection and making a significant impact in raising the mental state of men, women, their families and communities.
• Meaningful Mateship / Talk and Communicate. Build a deeper level of chat with your friends, family and others in your community. Don’t worry alone.
• Speak up, reach out - encouraging everyone to speak up, reach out and develop the skills and connections needed for mental wellbeing.

Fiona Andrew, National Manager Health and Wellbeing, Australia Post

• Rising workload demands coupled with increasing cognitive complexity means we need to understand the activities that promote and protect worker mental health.
• A lead indicators assessment approach is used to predict psychosocial risk factors, benchmark current levels of risk, and predict future trends
• Achievements and learnings of the Australia Post program of work will be shared

Jamie Preston, Senior Director Human Resources, Eli Lilly

• Creating a company culture that enables future of work
• Working with Senior Leaders to build commitment

Panellists:

Jo Cullen, General Manager, Organisational Culture, NRMA

Andrea McDowell, Head of Experience, Lendi Group

Moderator:

Kim Hamrosi, Executive Director, Corporate Mental Health Alliance Australia (CMHAA)

• Measuring employee stress and its impact on performance
• Identifying positive and negative working styles and how to navigate them
• Developing and implementing better coping and problem solving skills to manage workplace stress

Panellists:

Phil Reed, Chief Executive Officer, Pizza Hut

Kate Lewis, General Manager, People and Culture, The Reject Shop

Sarah-Ellen Maxwell, People & Performance Director, Solotel

Moderator:

Josh Vernon, Co-Founder & CEO, Wagestream

Employee wellbeing is now more important than ever, with businesses increasingly aware and active in this space. However, despite financial wellbeing being the largest contributor to overall mental and physical wellbeing it’s often missed by employers. By utilising unique strategies and digital tools, employers of choice are significantly reducing the financial strain on their employees and improving business performance.

This panel will discuss the importance of preventing wellbeing issues rather than just responding to them. They’ll also talk about the impact this shift in focus is having in terms of faster recruitment, increased productivity and shift-filling and reduced turnover.

Terry Wong, General Manager, Move 4 Life

• Innovative thinking about how to build physical wellbeing in your workforce beyond the standard offerings.
• Discover the research around the Healthspan concept and why it matters to your wellbeing program.
• Uncover the four pillars of building physical wellbeing, including some practical examples on how they might be implemented by your organisation.

Linda McEntee, Global Cloud HXM Go-To-Market Services Lead, SAP

As businesses grow and evolve, it's important to maintain a focus on how to keep your people engaged and productive. With a growing expectation from employees to work wherever, whenever, and however they want, it is essential for businesses to create connected experiences that drive outcomes.

Join our session as we talk through:

• Create connected experiences for your employees by eliminating disparate system and data
• How to better understand employees’ needs to serve business needs
• Discover ways to maximise and deploy your existing talent in an ever-changing environment, to ultimately drive organisation growth

Jen Jackson, Chief Visionary Officer, Everyday Massive

Join Jen Jackson for a deep dive into how to design learning experiences for hybrid workforces.

As strategic and creative partners for organisations such as Amazon, Everyday Massive has been redefining what is possible when it comes to capability building, communication and connection in evolving work environments.

At this roundtable we’ll be exploring:

• Individualised end-to-end learning strategies — that can be scaled
• Skill-building throughout the whole employee experience
• Why ‘Wordle’ went viral and brought teams all around the world closer together

Yu Dan Shi, Principal Behavioural Scientist, CoachHub

In 2020 and 2021 businesses were faced with new challenges on how to manage a remote workforce.

In 2022 the challenge is how to retain staff in the face of The Great Resignation. Experts predict Australia will see this issue start to have a major impact from March 2022 with 40% of the workforce considering leaving their current role.

In this session, we will discuss how HR Leaders can act now to help their organisations turn the Great Resignation to the Great Re-Engagement.

Natalie Micarone, Co-Founder and Director, Bendelta

Leaders in 2022 have a huge amount to take on. They have to:

• engage diffused, deflated and/or distracted workforces, by generating cultural renewal and crafting narratives of purpose, optimism and direction
• deal with the hybrid organisation as the new normal by both embracing and shaping further changes to ways of working
• move towards the permissionless, networked organisation by empowering and connecting networks of teams, and lubricate the flows between them
• manage incredible talent volatility by shaping and delivering a compelling employee proposition
• take on greater societal responsibility by hard-wiring better community and environmental actions into core business processes

At this roundtable we will learn how best to equip leaders to flourish in this complex context.

Vicky Bartolacci, APAC Managing Director, Kineo

At this roundtable we will be unpacking, learning and providing ways to look at the role of HR within value creation and business performance.

The needs and expectations of HR Leaders have changed - and are more complex than ever before. How have organisations and individuals adapted?

Today HR can include addressing skills gap, digital transformation, D&I, flexible working, employee experience. HR also incorporates many other areas.

• Are organisations adapting HR functions to be in a position to thrive?
• What can we learn from organisations that have tried something different?
  What is the ever changing role of HR in organisational performance, how is value created?

To many, HR is the way to ‘fix everything’ In this roundtable, we look at HR’s role in strategy, the ways business performance is measured today- and ways we can create value.

Tegan Davies, General Manager, Oranges Toolkit

In a rapidly changing, fast-paced economy, everyone needs effective self-management strategies to ensure they can be well at work and home. 'Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility' is listed as one of the Top 10 Skills of 2025 in the Future of Work report by the World Economic Forum. So, what should current HR leaders be doing right now to prepare their employees for the future?

Join Tegan Davies, General Manager of The Oranges Toolkit, to explore proactive, science-based workplace wellbeing strategies that build emotional agility. We will discuss:

• How can organisations use the latest neuroscience research to teach self-management, resilience and emotional intelligence?
• How do leaders and organisations best manage rising burnout and fatigue levels in a constantly changing, challenging environment?
• How can leaders amplify positive emotions and wellbeing practices through effective systems and processes?

Linda McEntee, Global Cloud HXM Go-To-Market Services Lead, SAP

In today’s ever changing environment, keeping your people engaged, productive and satisfied with their work has become more and more critical. With a growing expectation to work wherever, whenever, and however they want, it is essential for businesses to create connected experiences that drive outcomes. Join our roundtable to discuss:

• How to connect data and create connected employee experiences for your organisation
• How to better understand employees’ needs to serve business needs
• Discover ways to maximise and deploy your existing talent in an ever-changing environment, to ultimately drive organisation growth

Jen Jackson, Chief Visionary Officer, Everyday Massive

Join Jen Jackson for a deep dive into how to design learning experiences for hybrid workforces.

As strategic and creative partners for organisations such as Amazon, Everyday Massive has been redefining what is possible when it comes to capability building, communication and connection in evolving work environments.

At this roundtable we’ll be exploring:

• Individualised end-to-end learning strategies — that can be scaled
• Skill-building throughout the whole employee experience
• Why ‘Wordle’ went viral and brought teams all around the world closer together

Yu Dan Shi, Principal Behavioural Scientist, CoachHub

In 2020 and 2021 businesses were faced with new challenges on how to manage a remote workforce.

In 2022 the challenge is how to retain staff in the face of The Great Resignation. Experts predict Australia will see this issue start to have a major impact from March 2022 with 40% of the workforce considering leaving their current role.

In this session, we will discuss how HR Leaders can act now to help their organisations turn the Great Resignation to the Great Re-Engagement.

Natalie Micarone, Co-Founder and Director, Bendelta

Leaders in 2022 have a huge amount to take on. They have to:

• engage diffused, deflated and/or distracted workforces, by generating cultural renewal and crafting narratives of purpose, optimism and direction
• deal with the hybrid organisation as the new normal by both embracing and shaping further changes to ways of working
• move towards the permissionless, networked organisation by empowering and connecting networks of teams, and lubricate the flows between them
• manage incredible talent volatility by shaping and delivering a compelling employee proposition
• take on greater societal responsibility by hard-wiring better community and environmental actions into core business processes

At this roundtable we will learn how best to equip leaders to flourish in this complex context.

Vicky Bartolacci, APAC Managing Director, Kineo

At this roundtable we will be unpacking, learning and providing ways to look at the role of HR within value creation and business performance.

The needs and expectations of HR Leaders have changed - and are more complex than ever before. How have organisations and individuals adapted?

Today HR can include addressing skills gap, digital transformation, D&I, flexible working, employee experience. HR also incorporates many other areas.

• Are organisations adapting HR functions to be in a position to thrive?
• What can we learn from organisations that have tried something different?
  What is the ever changing role of HR in organisational performance, how is value created?

To many, HR is the way to ‘fix everything’ In this roundtable, we look at HR’s role in strategy, the ways business performance is measured today- and ways we can create value.

Tegan Davies, General Manager, Oranges Toolkit

In a rapidly changing, fast-paced economy, everyone needs effective self-management strategies to ensure they can be well at work and home. 'Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility' is listed as one of the Top 10 Skills of 2025 in the Future of Work report by the World Economic Forum. So, what should current HR leaders be doing right now to prepare their employees for the future?

Join Tegan Davies, General Manager of The Oranges Toolkit, to explore proactive, science-based workplace wellbeing strategies that build emotional agility. We will discuss:

• How can organisations use the latest neuroscience research to teach self-management, resilience and emotional intelligence?
• How do leaders and organisations best manage rising burnout and fatigue levels in a constantly changing, challenging environment?
• How can leaders amplify positive emotions and wellbeing practices through effective systems and processes?

Linda McEntee, Global Cloud HXM Go-To-Market Services Lead, SAP

In today’s ever changing environment, keeping your people engaged, productive and satisfied with their work has become more and more critical. With a growing expectation to work wherever, whenever, and however they want, it is essential for businesses to create connected experiences that drive outcomes. Join our roundtable to discuss:

• How to connect data and create connected employee experiences for your organisation
• How to better understand employees’ needs to serve business needs
• Discover ways to maximise and deploy your existing talent in an ever-changing environment, to ultimately drive organisation growth

Kay Goodman, Director Accor Academy & Talent Development, Pacific, Accor

• Key pillars of change to consider when building an inclusive culture that embraces differences
• What actionable steps can be taken to start the process?
• How can you effectively measure the impact of implementing a business integrated D&I strategy?

Alison Webb, Future of Work Lead, Lendlease

What shifts do we need to embrace to create workplace environments and experiences that deliver the most value to our people and organisations?

With 42% of Australians likely to resign if their work returns to 100% on-site, our workplace strategies for tomorrow must both support business growth and consider non-traditional alternatives that align to changing employee and customer needs.

Sam Brown, Head of Uber for Business, ANZ, Uber for Business

• The Uber story: How Uber for Business has navigated through change
• The challenges of employee wellbeing in a hybrid workplace
• Working with organisations to build employee programs and solutions

Panellists:

Pritho Saxena, HR Leader - China, Australia, Singapore & Philippines, Amazon

Natalie Devlin, Chief Experience Officer, Charter Hall

• What challenges are organisations facing with hybrid work, and where have they been finding opportunities to perform better as a workforce?
• Managing the people challenges hybrid work has triggered to ensure business outcomes and employee wellbeing
• Strategies for re-entry and establishing the new normal after COVID– how are leading organisations managing the friction points, hesitations and discomforts?

Panellists:

Siobhan Savage, Chief Executive Officer, Reejig

Carmel Pelunsky, Director Executive Talent, Woolworths Group

Steve Hill, Group Executive, People & Workplace Environment, Aware Super

Yvonne McIntosh, Division Director Leadership, Talent and Culture Macquarie Group Limit

Moderator:

Louisa Grundy, Chief Marketing Officer, Reejig

To win in the new world of work, organisations need a zero wasted potential strategy. This means having the agility to adapt your workforce to meet your business needs, and get the right skills in the right place at the right time. Hear from industry leaders on the changing nature of work, how to make mobility work and how to drive impact in your organisation.

Panellists:

Afroditi Sebastian, Global Head of Organisational Development, Unispace

Julia Clayton, Senior Manager, People & Culture, Goodman

Sarah Oquist, Senior HR Manager, Trustwave Pacific

Stephanie Ley, Head of People Solutions, Employee Experience, Domain

Moderator:

Georgie Duthy, Enterprise Customer Success Manager, Enboarder

The world as we know it has changed.

Distributed & disconnected workforces have made working together even harder. Your people are being pulled in a million directions at once. Which is why it’s no wonder organisations are struggling to gain traction on their people programs.

The best employer brands are rising to the challenge.

Join us for an exciting panel discussion on how leading organisations are driving action on & engagement with their people initiatives.

Leave ready to bring your organisation into the age of People Activation.

Rob Cassidy, Director of Sales - ANZ, CoachHub

• Harnessing AI and Predictive Analytics in talent acquisition for fair and efficient recruitment
• Building learning programs to augment business growth
• Maintaining an attractive employer brand to retain high performers

Panellists:

Vered Keisar, Chief People Officer, ResMed

Shruti Ganeriwala, HR Director, Unilever ANZ

Cinda Viranna, Head, Indigenous, Diversity and Inclusion, ABC

Moderator:

Eileen Baldry, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Equity Diversity and Inclusion, UNSW

• The imperative for HR leaders to respond to racism and move the needle on diversity in their organisations
• How can organizational leaders manage how bias influences decision making, hiring, promotions and retention?
• Best practice models on education and training programs to move workers into management

Sam McCool, CEO & Founder, www.sammccool.com.au