The REBA Wellness Conference was a success!
On Thursday 16th June 2016 over 200 HR Directors and other senior HR decision-makers met together at 155 Bishopsgate for the inaugural REBA Employee Wellness Conference.
The conference featured a dynamic mix of plenaries, strategic thought, employer case studies, in-depth focus sessions delving deeper into specific challenges, round tables and workshops.
Delegates benefited from sharing experience with their peers and listening to the experts. Highlights of the day included the opening and closing plenaries and the Hackathon (discussion group) for those who already had a wellness strategy in place.
Videos from the conference
Video (above): Highlights of the REBA Employee Wellness Conference
View video: How Oracle made a $1million saving in sickness absences
View video: Organisations must use data analytics for better targeting
View video: Why effective communication is vital for managing mental health
View video: Why ROI may not be the right measure for wellbeing strategies
View video: How the government is driving workplace wellness
View video: How Baker & McKenzie created its wellbeing programme
View video: Why businesses are focusing more on financial wellness
View video: Dealing with stress - the elephant in the room
View video: Wellbeing key to maximising human capital
View video: Organisations need to put more effort into financial wellbeing
View video: Essential ingredients for a successful wellbeing strategy
View video: Why embracing digital can help improve EAP take-up
View video: How to harness a resilient mindset in the workplace
View video: How even small benefits can have a big impact on business
View video: What happens when wellness isn't enough
View video: What does it take to be one of Britain's healthiest companies?
View video: Three lives saved after Chester Zoo embraced Heartstart
View video: How size isn't everything when it comes to wellbeing
Add Employee Wellness to engage and nurture your staff
Organisations throughout the UK are recognising that wellness is no longer just a ‘nice to have’ element of their HR and benefits strategy, which is why our first Employee Wellness conference was so well attended.
Speakers included:
Alistair Dornan
Andrew Brown
Ann Preston
Beate O'Neill
Charlotte Dymock
Dr Paul Litchfield
Dr Peter Kelly
Dr Roxane Gervais
Dr Shaun Davis
Dr. Catherine Rutland
Fiona King
Huw Meredith
Jane Hubbard
Jo Bean
Joy Reymond
Laura Smith
Matthew Lawrence
Meesha Birch
Melanie Gurney
Michelle Bradshaw
Phil Hayne
Prof. Derek Mowbray
Rebecca Cox
Simon Mounsey
Tom Gaynor
Carl Chapman
Mark Watson
Our first Employee Wellness Conference covered everything needed to design and deliver a successful wellness strategy covering financial, mental and physical wellbeing.
Delegates enjoyed a dynamic, full-day conference with plenaries and short, punchy speaker sessions, plus round table discussion groups, panels of experts and employer case studies. The event gave delegates the chance to:
- Find out what other employers are doing with regards to wellness
- Benchmark their own existing wellness tactics
- Learn how to get board buy-in for wellness programmes
- Learn more about financial wellness as a part of the overall strategy
- Get ahead of the trend by discovering the latest wellness advances
- Discover low-cost initiatives available for prompt implementation
- Hear what experts predict for the future of wellness
For those employers that already offered a co-hesive and comprehensive wellness strategy – we hosted an exclusive ‘hackathon’, which brought about healthy debate and idea sharing.
Conference programme
(Delegates to select sessions once booked)
09:30-09:40
Opening remarks from the Chair
Debi O'Donovan, Director, Reward & Employee Benefits Association
09:40-10:10
PLENARY: The Government’s framework for wellness and the 5 year plan
- Why wellness and employees?
- The business case for employee wellbeing
- The role of the employer in wellness
- Current Government wellness initiatives
- Forecasting future trends in wellness
Prof Derek Mowbray, Director, Management Advisory Service and architect of The WellBeing and Performance Agenda [moderator]
Huw Meredith, Head of Delivery, Work and Health Unit, Department of Work and Pensions
Dr Peter Kelly, Psychologist, Health & Safety Executive
Dr Roxane Gervais, Occupational Psychologist, Health & Safety Laboratory
Robert Cochran, Corporate Pensions Specialist, Scottish Widows
10:10-10:50
PLENARY: Wellness: The impact on your company’s bottom line
- Wellness is more than just a free gym membership: Why we’ve bought into wellness as a strategic initiative
- Utilizing wellness to mitigate risk, drive engagement and improve profit
- Leading from the top
Beth Robotham, Head of Business Development, Bupa UK [moderator]
Steve Bell, Global CEO, Iris Worldwide
Melanie Gurney, Executive Director HR & Head of L&D, Mizuho International
Dr Shaun Davis, Group Director of Safety, Health, Wellbeing & Sustainability, Royal Mail Group
Dr Paul Litchfield, CMO and Director Wellbeing, Inclusion, Safety & Health, BT plc
10:50-11:10
PLENARY: Creating a healthy, happy and engaged workforce through a visionary wellness strategy
- The impact of wellbeing on future risk/benefit costs and workforce planning
- Data-driven campaigns based on information from benefit providers
- Know your numbers’ campaign and results – getting people interested in their own health and wellbeing
- Financial Wellness - 3 pronged approach – THINK, LEARN, ACT
CASE STUDY: Michelle Bradshaw, Compensation & Benefits Director UK, Ireland & Israel, Oracle
11:10-11:40
MORNING COFFEE BREAK
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11:40-13:15 CHOOSE: EITHER the hackathon interactive workshop OR the Building a wellness strategy: a series of three sessions |
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11:40-13:15 Hackathon - interactive workshop for delegates with a wellness strategy already in place ADVANCED: Roundtable discussion session (Hackathon)
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OR 11:40-13:15 Building a wellness strategy: a series of three sessions
How to create a tailored wellness solution
How to build a business case to ensure Board buy-in to your wellness strategy
How to create and roll-out a cohesive wellness strategy
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13:15-14:05
LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon Pick ‘n’ mix sessions
14:05-14:30 Select one of these 3
Establishing the true cost of wellbeing
- Latest insights from our EMEA Health Care Survey
- How to benchmark against your competitors’ claims costs
- Future gaze and predict up to 5 years of your organisation’s claims costs
- How other organisations have put in place wellness programmes to counterbalance their workforce’s largest health concerns
Matthew Lawrence, Head of Health and Risk, Aon Employee Benefits
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What happens when wellness isn’t enough?
- Why wellness strategies help with absences but can’t eliminate it
- Discover how companies have used their wellbeing benefits and budget more effectively to:
- Shorten the length of absence
- Reduce the costs of absence
- Prevent claims
Includes Case Studies
Fiona King, Head of Rehabilitation, Legal & General
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How to create digital EAP that actually engages your employees
Mark Watson, CFMO, Lifeworks
14:35-15:00 Select one of these 3
How to introduce simple wellbeing benefits to reduce absence costs
- How regularly used health benefits reduce your business costs
- Why prevention really is better than cure
- How looking after oral health improves general health
- The positive outcomes for your workforce
Dr Catherine Rutland, Senior Advisor, Denplan
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How to improve financial wellness, for free
- Does the financial health of your employees matter?
- How can you help your employees improve their financial health, for free?
CASE STUDY: Simon Mounsey, HR Director, Agilisys
Asesh Sarkar, CEO, SalaryFinance
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ADVANCED: Harnessing a resilient mind set fit for the future workplace
- Making the business case for resilience to meet changing workplace needs
- Building a foundation of trust and a positive mind set toward mental health
- The role of the Line Manager
- The evolving workplace
Tom Gaynor, Director, Employee Benefits, Metlife
15:05-15:30 Select one of these 3
What can really be achieved with limited budget, time and resources?
- Hear how your business can learn from a SME with limited financial and people resource, which used creative techniques to achieve their desired health and wellbeing objectives
- Address the challenge of a diverse workforce with differing needs – and please everyone!
- Understand what you can do to deliver innovative and robust solutions that drive the best results for you and your business
CASE STUDY: Charlotte Dymock, Benefits Lead, Shepherds Bush Housing Association
Meesha Birch, Employer and Intermediary Marketing Manager and Subject Matter Expert, Simplyhealth
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What financial wellness looks like in action
- Financial wellness – the missing piece of the jigsaw?
- New benchmarking research: Can you count yourselves in the top 24%?
- Seven steps to an effective financial wellness strategy
- Beyond engagement – experience improved financial wellness
Jeanette Makings, Head of Financial Education, Close Brothers
Simon Williams, Financial Planner, Close Brothers
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Effective communication – a vital component to managing mental health in the workplace
- The risk to business of overlooking communication around mental health
- What line managers need to know to be able to spot problems and turn to help
- The communication gaps between HR policies, support and front line managers
- Practical: communication checklist
Joy Reymond, Head of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Unum
15:35-16:00 Select one of these 3
How to design and implement a successful health and wellbeing programme around National Awareness Days and Charitable Initiatives
- Three step framework: At a societal level (incorporating PESTEL elements); At an organisational level; and At the individual level
- Building a wellness programme based on government and charitable initiatives
- How to develop these initiatives in-house for a comprehensive, made-to-measure strategy
Bill Taylor, Head of Operations, Occupational Health and Staff Wellbeing, Public Health England
CASE STUDY: Jane Hubbard, Head of HR, Chester Zoo
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ADVANCED: Using data analytics to boost your health management strategy
- How data analytics can help effectively segment their workforce
- Uncover how to join up data with the employee care pathway
- Why 37% of employees fear speaking about mental health; and the role of the line manager
- Case study: how one employer improved financial as well as people outcomes
Alistair Dornan, Head of Health Management, Capita Employee Benefits
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ADVANCED: The elephant in the room – the impact that stress and psychological presenteeism has on workforce performance and what leaders and managers can do about it
- Create a culture that prevents stress and encourages performance
- Eliminate the causes of stress which prevent performance
- Take responsibility for own psychological wellbeing and that of others
- Share responsibility for the future success of the organisation
- The Wellbeing and Performance Agenda framework
Prof Derek Mowbray, Director of the Management Advisory Service and the architect of The WellBeing and Performance Agenda
16:00-16:20
AFTERNOON TEA BREAK
16:20-16:55
PLENARY: What does it take to be one of Britain’s healthiest companies?
- Britain's Healthiest Company Awards, launched in 2013, recognise companies which embrace the wellness of their employees as an integral part of the company culture, and who understand how important employee health and wellness is on productivity and company profits.
- Our panel of award winners will be sharing the secrets of their success, divulging what works and what doesn't, and how to choose the initiatives that are right for your company.
David Sher, Compensation and Benefits Manager, Old Mutual Group
Ann Preston, Director, HR, Sanofi Pasteur MSD
Rebecca Cox, Fitness Director, Iris International
16:55-17:00
Closing remarks from the Chair
What practitioners say about wellness
As part of the REBA/Punter Southall Health & Protection Employee Wellness Research 2016 we asked several of our members how they view employee wellness strategies:
Chris Carter, Head of Reward, SAS Businesses in UK & Ireland
Our wellbeing strategy is purposefully designed so that employees become more engaged and we can link the direct tangible and non-tangible benefits we offer to employees.
Janet Mckenzie, Reward & Performance Manager, The Southern Co-operative
We've seen wellness increasingly talked about in the past few years. But it's important to recognise that underneath the buzz and the shiny new wrapping paper, the underlying idea is solid common sense. If colleagues are unwell or worried, whatever the reason, they’re not going to be able to give their best to their job.
Mirka Slater, Senior Benefits Manager, EMEA, Expedia.com
A smart move in any company is to keep an eye on health and wellbeing. At Expedia, we try to engage our employees and manage absence linked to health and wellbeing by introducing measures to promote an overall healthy life.
The research showed that spending on wellness is on the increase – up by 50% for those with a wellness strategy in place and a third for those without. All employers need to stand up and take notice of this increasingly important area of HR strategy and attending the Employee Wellness Conference on 16th June was the ideal place for many of our delegates to start.
Here is a selection of the 200+ HR Directors and senior HR decision makers who have registered to attend this essential conference -
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Group Reward Director (Europe) Head of HR Operations Head of Reward and Global Mobility Head of Reward Head of Reward Head of People Experience Director C&B EMEA HR Director Director of HR Group Head of HR, Learning & Development Director Benefits - EMEA Group HR Director Head of HR Head of Compensation, Head of Reward Head of reward Head of HR Director, pensions and benefits Chief Talent Officer – Global HR Director Executive Director for Employee Benefits Head of HR Group HR Director Snr Director, Human Resources Head of Reward Head of HR HR Director Head of Reward and Projects |
Head of Reward Head of HR Global Head of Benefits Group Reward Director Reward Director Head of HR Reward Partner Global Reward Director Head of Reward Head of Smart Health Head of People Strategy & Change Head of ER Head of Reward Reward and Performance Director Head of Compensation and Benefits Head of Reward Director of People and Talent Head of Employment & Wellbeing Head of Reward Director HR Director, International Benefits Head of Reward HR Director Interim Head of Reward Head of HR Head of Pensions & Benefits Head of Health & Productivity |
