Employee Wellbeing Congress 2017

Chairman's Introduction
Debi O'Donovan, Director, REBA                                                                                                                     

Why wellbeing is good for business: the CEO perspective  

• Why and how Anglian Water has embedded a focus on employee wellbeing in its long-term business strategy
• The role of the leadership team in creating a wellbeing culture that delivers for employees and for the bottom line
• What do we mean by employee wellbeing? Why a clear definition enabled a clearer benchmarking of success
• How Anglian Water measures the value of the investment in wellbeing: a new approach that will convince the CFO
  Peter Simpson, CEO, Anglian Water

Understanding the links between wellbeing and share value

• How investors view organisations which demonstrate an effective approach to the wellbeing of their employees
• Convincing your CFO: the arguments for investing in a wellbeing strategy that will support shareholder returns
  Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance, London Business School 

Case study: How Nomura has worked to become Britain's healthiest workplace                                         

• Why Nomura embarked on the wellbeing journey: the sense of responsibility and the business case
• The challenges of implementation
• The next phase: stress and mental wellbeing
  Mark Hudson, COO HR, Nomura

Developing a bespoke evidence-based wellbeing programme

• How to get started with a wellbeing strategy that is tailored for your organisation
• Conducting a wellbeing audit - how to identify what's right for you
• Using data to understand your key risk factors
• What can and should you measure?
• Using a data dashboard
• Measuring your success
  Soraya Chamberlain, Director of Corporate Healthcare & Wellbeing, Punter Southall Health & Protection
  Anna Spender, Director of Actuarial & Data Analytics, Punter Southall Health & Protection

Case study: Creating a grass roots approach to mindfulness training at GE

• Learn from the experience of GE in building employee demand for mindfulness training
• Insights into the approach that makes mindfulness attractive to an employee profile which might be expected to be cynical
• Wellbeing or L&D? What GE are learning about where mindfulness training best fits
  Debbie Jeremiah, Mindful Leadership Program Manager, GE

Participatory Workshop: Moving your wellbeing strategy from "good" to "great" [Session Cont at 11:55]

This workshop is for practitioners who already have a wellbeing strategy in place.

• Learn from new research which further promotes the case for continued Employer intervention
• Collectively discuss how to deliver a more targeted, engaging, well-structured wellness strategy that is supported by leadership, aligned to business needs and delivers on targeted results
• Understand how to overcome barriers and take your wellness strategy to the next level: how to build, deliver and differentiate a "great" results-driven approach
  Rebekah Haymes, Senior Health & Benefits Consultant, Willis Towers Watson

Businesses tackling mental health stigma: inspiring campaigns making an impact

• Learn what other companies are doing to promote and support good mental health 
• Pick up tips from this showcase of best practice by reviewing some of the campaigns and initiatives making an impact in this area
  Beth Robotham, Head of Business Development, Bupa

Financial wellbeing: managing the key risks

• Identifying the five key risk areas for financial wellbeing
• Learn from best practice examples in each area
• Reviewing simple strategies to mitigate those risks
• Understanding the benefits for your business and your employees
  Jeanette Makings, Head of Financial Education, Close Brothers
  Simon Williams, Senior Financial Planner, Close Brothers

[Session Cont from 11:30] Participatory Workshop: Moving your wellbeing strategy from "good" to "great"

This workshop is for practitioners who already have a wellbeing strategy in place.

• Learn from new research which further promotes the case for continued Employer intervention
• Collectively discuss how to deliver a more targeted, engaging, well-structured wellness strategy that is supported by leadership, aligned to business needs and delivers on targeted results
• Understand how to overcome barriers and take your wellness strategy to the next level: how to build, deliver and differentiate a "great" results-driven approach
  Rebekah Haymes, Senior Health & Benefits Consultant, Willis Towers Watson

Extracting the broader business value from your wellbeing investments

• Understand why communicating wellbeing effectively can be an opportunity for your business, not simply an HR strategy
• Learn how to maximise the value of your existing wellbeing programme
• Practical steps to move towards full participation
• What are the 3 reasons employees are not utilising your wellbeing offering
  David Walker, CCO, Personal Group
  

The Evolution of employee wellbeing
Only a holistic approach to employee wellbeing will reduce absenteeism, voluntary turnover and improve the health and productivity of your workforce. Find out how.

• Get the latest research on achieving optimum wellbeing
• Discover the newest innovations in employee wellbeing that are getting results
• Learn how consumerism, personalisation and converging technology can provide proactive and preventative services for real-time, tailored wellbeing
• Find out where wellbeing technology is heading including data-driven intervention & prevention through AI
• Understand how to measure wellbeing using advanced analytics
• Case-study insight: See how The Savoy Hotel increased employee engagement to 93%
  James Lee, Chief Design Officer, Lifeworks

Do EAPs have an image problem? Busting the myths and how to make your EAP a cornerstone of your wellbeing strategy

• Why EAPs can be stigmatised
• How a facelift can increase the effectiveness of your EAP
• How an EAP can help prevent 'stress' becoming 'distress'
• How many employee concerns could be effectively solved with a robust and well communicated EAP
• EAPs and financial, mental and physical wellbeing
  Jo Elphick, Head of Marketing, Metlife

Tailoring your communications for multi-generational workforces – for financial, physical and mental wellbeing 

• The current make-up of the multigenerational workforce and their differing needs 
• What challenges employers face when offering flexible benefits to recruit, retain, motivate and engage employees  
• How reward professionals can use flexible benefits to meet these challenges and achieve strategic HR goals whilst remaining cost effective 
• Practical suggestions for communication plans to ensure maximum take up, engagement and appreciation
  Pam Whelan, Director of Corporate, Simplyhealth & Clive Cripps, Benefits Manager

Effective integration of financial, physical and emotional wellbeing 

• Meeting the challenges presented by the different generations 
• Using flexibility to match employee needs 
• Practically, what does implementation look like? 
  Brian Henderson, Head of DC and Financial Wellness, Mercer & Andrea Paxton, Principle, DC & Financial Wellness, Mercer 

Round table discussion groups
Delegates participate in round table discussions on a range of topic areas - followed by team feedback                

BIG DATA - Empowering your Health & Wellbeing Strategy 

• Learn how the leaders in health & wellbeing are utilising data to help power their strategy
• Find out how to put data at the centre of your strategy - from building a risk profile, to targeting spend more effectively, as well as guiding a communication strategy and building a baseline to measure return on investment
• Understand how a wide range of data sets can help drive results
  Mark Witte, Head of Health & Risk Propositions and Consulting, Aon

Help stop the suffering in silence: strategies for managing employee mental health

• Stress is now the top cause of employee absences lasting four weeks or more
• The gap in understanding: learn from new research how employers are mis-reading their employees' willingness to discuss mental health issues with a company representative
• Why do 32% of employees surveyed feel that they have no one to talk to?
• Learn how to encourage workplace conversations that will benefit your company
• Take away useful ideas to raise awareness of the support available
  Vanessa Sallows, Benefits & Governance Director, Legal & General 

New government financial wellbeing initiative: why employees are going to expect more from employers 

• New support available to help you support your employees 
• Top tips for supporting your workforce – cost effectively and compliantly – in retirement planning to improve employee wellbeing 
• Why the workplace is seen as a primary channel for delivering financial wellbeing: learn from a review of government reports  
• Understanding the barriers around what an employer can say without tripping into advice and how these may be further clarified 
• Learn from a survey of 14,000 pension scheme members: what do they value in a pension and why are retirement concerns one of the biggest barriers to financial wellbeing
  Robert Cochran, Corporate Pensions Relationship Specialist, Scottish Widows 
  

How to embed a financial wellbeing programme within your overall wellbeing strategy: Case study - Anglian Water

• Hear how Anglian Water have incorporated financial wellbeing into their overall wellbeing initiative
• What were the trigger points to becoming an early adopter?
• How did they get started on their financial wellbeing journey?
• Learn from examples of campaigns that Anglian Water have run to combat stress in the workplace and initiatives they have rolled out to begin tackling taboos around topics like mental health
• Learn from the results of Anglian Water's pilot scheme to assess their workforce's views before full scale launch
  Sally Purbrick, Head of Reward, Anglian Water

Workplace Health 2.0 - What might you be missing out on? Understanding what the data is telling us

• Corporate Health and wellbeing management has been transformed into a rigorous data and insights-driven activity - but are we casting the net of data wide enough?
• Understand how health and wellbeing links directly to workforce engagement and productivity
• Linking diversity and inclusion to the unique health and wellbeing status of an individual
• Why the ageing demographic and its link to disability, health and wellbeing in the workplace has created the need for a more positive and integrated approach
• Why employees who feel included and who have their individual health needs met will thrive
• Understanding how a thriving workforce has a direct positive impact on an organisation's bottom line and the quality of customer experience
  Dr Wolfgang Seidl, Workplace Health Consulting Leader, UK & Europe, Mercer 

Demonstrating value and impact on your health and wellbeing investment through a reduction in health risks
Case study: Saint-Gobain

• On average, every person carries 4.8 health risks, the immediate cost of such risks comes through lower energy, impaired productivity and higher absence, not to mention future health issues. Learn how an effective health and wellbeing programme can utilise insight to identify and reduce key health risks.
• How employers can scale their programmes, integrate available services, and best use digital technology to drive wellness amongst employees.
• Learn from Saint-Gobain's partnership with AXA PPP healthcare. Operating in the construction sector, including 34 different companies across 1,150+ sites in the UK, they've already reduced their overall health age by 1,350 years and continue to grow engagement and sustain employee use of their wellbeing services.
  Kevin Crawley, Environmental Health and Safety Director, Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland
  Dr Chris Tomkins, Chief Operating Officer, Proactive Health, AXA PPP Healthcare

Personalising a macro strategy to increase employee engagement 
           Case Study: Cisco 

• Understanding what will motivate personal lifestyle changes to improve wellbeing
• Introducing a wellbeing ambassador - and making the most engaged employees your ambassadors for the benefits of the programme
• Encouraging employees to take the wellbeing approach home to their families
• How technology has enabled the organic and effective engagement with employees
  Sheila Champion-Smeeth, Total Rewards Consultant EMEAR, Cisco

Getting the communication approach right 
            Case study: Zurich Insurance

• Creating a platform of communication that builds employee demand for information and engagement
• Empowering localism to create equality of access
• Rolling out the programme: lessons and connections with the diversity and inclusion strategy
  Julie Thomas, Group Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Zurich Insurance
  Hayley Golden, Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing Manager, Zurich Insurance 

Panel discussion: engaging and enabled line managers to ensure effective cultural change 

• Convincing line managers that it's worth their own investment in the programme
• Reassessing and redirecting the line manager's role
• Creating the time, providing the support and recognising the contribution that line managers make
  Pannelists:
  Andy Buxton, Health & Wellbeing Manager, National Grid
  Zoe Eccleston, Health & Wellbeing EMEA, Bloomberg 
  Stephanie Schreiber, Wellbeing Adviser, Business in the Community
  Yulia O'Mahony, Head of Wellbeing, John Lewis