REBA Wellbeing Congress 2024

Registration and visit the exhibition

8am – 8.15am BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 15 mins

Breakfast and meet the exhibitors

By invitation only: 2 x Breakfast workshops

8.20am – 9am BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 40 mins

INVITATION ONLY workshop

Chair’s welcome and introduction

9.15am – 9.25am BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 10 mins

Chair welcomes with an insightful introduction

Speakers

Debi O'Donovan

Co-founder & Director, REBA

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Opening keynote: Why we must focus on healthy ageing to create a resilient multigenerational workforce

9.25am – 10.15am BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 50 mins

Keynote

An ageing workforce and rising retirement age means long-term brain and body health needs to become a top priority for employers – with a shift to focusing on resilience, prevention and effective and informed self-care.

Join chartered psychologist and expert in brain health and nutrition, Kimberley Wilson, to get ahead of the global population health trends and risks that are coming over the horizon. Compared to other risk factors such as genetics, life and early life experiences, nutrition is increasingly becoming an accessible and amenable intervention that can positively impact and support the healthy ageing and emotional wellbeing of your workforce.

Drawing on leading-edge thinking and latest research, Kimberly reveals how diet and nutrition quality plays a critical and significant role in mitigating health risks and supporting: 

• Stress resilience
• Attention, memory performance, cognitive flexibility and processing speed
• Healthy brain ageing and protecting neurological longevity

Speakers

Kimberley Wilson

Host of BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Made of Stronger Stuff' and author of 'Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat is Fuelling our Mental Health Crisis'

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Topical breakout speaker sessions and masterclass or strategic workshops

10.15am – 11.15am BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 1 hour

Hear from industry experts providing actionable advice and insight. Three panels and speaker sessions will run across four concurrent streams during the morning and afternoon. Find out more under the 'More info' button.

Please note that more sessions will be added to the agenda as they are confirmed

Mitigating rising benefit costs with prevention and behaviour change

• People risk trends, the NHS landscape and what claims spend is telling us
• Strategies to better understand risk and leverage your benefit spend to support your EVP and drive behaviour change
• Creating a whole of organisation approach to wellbeing – connecting stakeholders across the organisation to prioritise the wellbeing agenda
• Using data to make better decisions and drive better wellbeing outcomes - what does good look like and how to evolve the human data strategy

David Guy, Strategic Broking Lead, Aon
 

Are we all just wasting our time? The harsh reality of workplace wellbeing

• Why human and organisational health are now indivisible 
• How we can rethink workplace wellbeing from away from risk, to a more sustainable future
• The significance of placing benefits foremost in your wellbeing strategy
• The adaptive capacity of health benefits to achieve organisational goals

Gethin Nadin, Psychologist, Author, and Chief Innovation Officer, Benefex 

Mind the gap - why prevention and health confidence could be the missing link in your health strategy

While the boom in health benefits has focused on providing access to care when things go wrong, the kind of health intelligence that boosts wellness even before the first symptom appears is a regular gap in benefit strategies. Join Bluecrest's CEO Dominque Kent and Chief Medical Officer Dr Martin Thornton as they explore:

• New research about the current state of, and demand for preventative health assessments from employees
• How workforce-wide health insight can support and drive wider health and wellbeing strategies
• Real-life examples of how other businesses are putting health data to use.

Dominique Kent, CEO and Dr Martin Thornton, Chief Medical Officer, Bluecrest

Creating an early cancer detection strategy that works across the whole of workforce

• The current landscape: NHS delays and where the UK stacks up internationally on cancer survival rates
• The role for employers in bridging the gap: the cost impact and wellbeing benefits of early cancer detection, risk assessment and screening programmes  
• Using workplace education campaigns to raise awareness and reduce risk by driving healthy behaviour change
• Support for employees living and working with cancer: practical ways employers can help both individuals and the impact on the wider workforce 
• How the insurance ecosystem shifting to help address and support a cancer workplace strategy 

Professor Gordon Wishart, Founder, Chief Medical Officer and CEO, Check4Cancer

Supporting employees’ need for financial advice: Hot-off-the-press research into the current position and attitudes to financial education, coaching and advice in UK workplaces

Join this session to get an exclusive first-reveal of the findings of brand new research from Close Brothers that explores the current position and attitudes to financial advice in the workplace and provides insight on how employers can support their employees to find suitable professional support. 

• Where are we now: surprising stats and facts from the Close Brothers Spotlight on UK Financial Wellbeing research 
• The mismatch between employee and corporate priorities on how to improve financial wellbeing: why and what are the issues?
• With the increasing prevalence of financial education, coaching and guidance in UK workplaces, what are the current attitudes to financial advice and how can employers help employees to access suitable financial guidance and advice, whilst also maintaining their own independence 

Jeanette Makings, Head of Workplace Financial Wellbeing, Close Brothers

Creating employee ownership of pensions to drive value, engagement and retention

• Are you getting value for your pension spend? And if not, what can you do about it?
• Why employee ownership of pensions is key to shifting pensions from an undervalued benefit to an employee engagement and retention tool 
• What are the barriers and blockers to ownership and how to grab employee attention? 
• Making pensions meaningful means making them personal, accessible and easier to understand

Steve Watson, Head of Proposition, Cushon

Case study: Proactive prevention delivers more than £40m cost savings for Centrica

What’s the latest health and lifestyle data telling us and why we need to understand more about what keeps people well (and not just unwell) to support healthy behaviour change

• Proactive prevention and workplace wellbeing at Centrica: what worked, what didn’t and key lessons learned
• How to engage people to think differently on health and wellbeing: personalising initiatives and interventions to meet the different needs of a multigenerational workforce 
• Mitigating insurance costs: the benefits and cost savings of moving to a healthcare trust model

Pamela Gellatly, Strategic Development Director, HCML
David House, Non-Executive Director, HCML (and former Deputy Group HRD and chairman of Centrica’s Healthcare Trust) 

Using family-forming benefits to improve inclusion and employee retention

• How does being a want-to-be or new parent impact on financial wellbeing (pay, career etc), absence and stress?
• Is your family-forming strategy, and the policies and benefits you offer, fit-for-purpose?
• What are the commonly offered family-forming employee benefits?
• How can employers use benefits from diagnostic testing and reproductive health treatments attract, retain and engage their new and want-to-be parents?

Deirdre O'Neill, Co-Founder, Chief Commercial & Legal Officer, Hertility

The unique financial wellbeing challenges facing mid-lifers, and how employers can offer support

Join this session to get fresh, just out-of-the-box insights from Hymans Robertson Personal Wealth from their latest research on the financial wellbeing of those in Generation X.   

Many in Gen X are in the ‘sandwich’ phase, caring for families as well as elderly parents. When it comes to pensions this is also the generation that largely missed out on DB pensions but were too late to be early beneficiaries of auto-enrolment. Other challenges that are unique to their generation include a rise in insecure work, an increase in house prices and more recently an increase in interest rates. Added to that, they’re expected to live longer but spend more of those longer years in poor health than other generations. The outlook looks challenging for many, but employers can help. 

• What strategies can you use to engage a busy generation with their finances? 
• How confident are people about retirement?  
• Do Gen Xers understand the trends that have made their situation more challenging?  
• Financial wellbeing impact on general wellbeing 
• Savings behaviours and habits of this generation 
• What expectations this generation has of their employers 
• Case studies of the impact of financial wellbeing strategies 

Julie Hammerton, Managing Partner, Hymans Robertson Personal Finance

Reframing manager bashing: supporting line managers and their teams to thrive

• Why do Managers get such a hard time? – the challenges facing today’s line managers and why we have to get this right to improve workplace wellbeing
• Unlocking the middle layer – how to create space for Managers to focus on themselves and ultimately create inclusive and more efficient teams
• Levelling up engagement to get to hard to reach groups, demographics and generations
• Leveraging real-time data to drive employee engagement with benefits
• Practical takeaways and key considerations – do your managers really know how your teams are doing?

Ryan Hopkins, Chief Impact Officer, JAAQ

Is rising staff absence the new normal? How preventative Employee Benefits can help improve health outcomes, engage talent and manage costs

• Understand the challenges that workers are facing, and how to help improve engagement, drive down staff absence and manage costs
• How the changes your employees are living through have created a sick and tired workforce needing stability to stand confident in the face of future challenges – and how benefits meet those needs 
• How preventative, protection and risk benefits can motivate and engage employees, supporting retention and aiding recruitment

Adrian Matthews, Head of Employee Benefits UK and Europe, MetLife 
 

Addressing high functioning anxiety in the workplace: is your workplace wellbeing strategy fit for purpose? 

• Understanding the mental wellbeing needs of your employee population 
• The impact of high functioning anxiety – what is it and why does it matter? 
• What’s the data telling us and what steps can you take today to mitigate future psychological threats
• Creating a preventative mental health strategy fit for modern workforce 
• What good looks like and why generational stratification of your wellbeing strategy is key? 

Shamira Graham, Chief Commerical Officer, Onebright 

What role does AI play in reward and benefits and how it can save your job

AI is already impacting the world of benefits and reward, in areas such as benefits administration, benefits selection and modelling potential strategies. Join this myth-busting session to understand exactly how AI will impact your role as a reward and benefit director. 

• The role of AI as an enabler and potential protector of reward and benefits roles
• How embracing AI now will secure your future role 
• What AI will mean for your job and how it will make it a whole lot easier
• Why AI will be key to the success of your employee wellbeing strategies 

Eric Humphrey, VP Engineering, Peppy

How to make your workforce 13 IQ points smarter

Join this session to hear exclusive findings from a world-first study exploring the impact financial stress has on cognition, decision-making and mental wellbeing. 

• Find out about the ‘scarcity mindset’ and how money worries are costing your employees IQ points
• Reclaiming IQ: hear how simple workplace interventions can increase overall wellbeing and free up intelligence
• Discover what good looks like and how an inclusive financial toolkit can lead to positive behavioural change

Emily Trant, Chief Impact Officer, Wagestream

Strategic recognition can strengthen wellbeing initiatives and build a skills-based environment to effectively train and retain talent

• Discover the next steps in organisational skills management with the power of AI, NLP and advanced mapping of capabilities across individuals and organisations
• Learn about the powerful effects a focus on wellbeing can have for your people and your business
• Dive into how recognition can support skills development and foster a culture of learning, in line with core values

Speaker from Workhuman tbc

Panel 1: Pay and Reward strategies to support employee wellbeing

10.15am – 11.15am BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 1 hour

Breakout sessions

• What’s new that is driving reward packages
• Designing structures to get pay transparency right (and avoid disasters)
• Impact of rising National Minimum Wage
• How ESG weaves into reward and impacts ESG reporting

Speakers

Susie Godfrey

Head of Performance & Reward EMEA, Norton Rose Fulbright

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Scott Cullen

Partner, Reward Consulting, KPMG

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Amanda Webb

Head of Reward, OVO

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Visit the exhibition and coffee break

11.15am – 11.40am BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 25 mins

Explore the mix of established big-name suppliers and fresh new innovators - all offering the latest solutions across physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing.

Breakout panel and speaker sessions and strategic workshops

11.40am – 1.40pm BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 2 hours

Hear from industry experts providing actionable advice and insight. Three panels and speaker sessions will run across four concurrent streams during the morning and afternoon. Find out more under the 'More info' button.

Please note that more sessions will be added to the agenda as they are confirmed

Mitigating rising benefit costs with prevention and behaviour change

• People risk trends, the NHS landscape and what claims spend is telling us
• Strategies to better understand risk and leverage your benefit spend to support your EVP and drive behaviour change
• Creating a whole of organisation approach to wellbeing – connecting stakeholders across the organisation to prioritise the wellbeing agenda
• Using data to make better decisions and drive better wellbeing outcomes - what does good look like and how to evolve the human data strategy

David Guy, Strategic Broking Lead, Aon
 

Are we all just wasting our time? The harsh reality of workplace wellbeing

• Why human and organisational health are now indivisible 
• How we can rethink workplace wellbeing from away from risk, to a more sustainable future
• The significance of placing benefits foremost in your wellbeing strategy
• The adaptive capacity of health benefits to achieve organisational goals

Gethin Nadin, Psychologist, Author, and Chief Innovation Officer, Benefex 

Mind the gap - why prevention and health confidence could be the missing link in your health strategy

While the boom in health benefits has focused on providing access to care when things go wrong, the kind of health intelligence that boosts wellness even before the first symptom appears is a regular gap in benefit strategies. Join Bluecrest's CEO Dominque Kent and Chief Medical Officer Dr Martin Thornton as they explore:

• New research about the current state of, and demand for preventative health assessments from employees
• How workforce-wide health insight can support and drive wider health and wellbeing strategies
• Real-life examples of how other businesses are putting health data to use.

Dominique Kent, CEO and Dr Martin Thornton, Chief Medical Officer, Bluecrest

Creating an early cancer detection strategy that works across the whole of workforce

• The current landscape: NHS delays and where the UK stacks up internationally on cancer survival rates
• The role for employers in bridging the gap: the cost impact and wellbeing benefits of early cancer detection, risk assessment and screening programmes  
• Using workplace education campaigns to raise awareness and reduce risk by driving healthy behaviour change
• Support for employees living and working with cancer: practical ways employers can help both individuals and the impact on the wider workforce 
• How the insurance ecosystem shifting to help address and support a cancer workplace strategy 

Professor Gordon Wishart, Founder, Chief Medical Officer and CEO, Check4Cancer

Supporting employees’ need for financial advice: Hot-off-the-press research into the current position and attitudes to financial education, coaching and advice in UK workplaces

Join this session to get an exclusive first-reveal of the findings of brand new research from Close Brothers that explores the current position and attitudes to financial advice in the workplace and provides insight on how employers can support their employees to find suitable professional support. 

• Where are we now: surprising stats and facts from the Close Brothers Spotlight on UK Financial Wellbeing research 
• The mismatch between employee and corporate priorities on how to improve financial wellbeing: why and what are the issues?
• With the increasing prevalence of financial education, coaching and guidance in UK workplaces, what are the current attitudes to financial advice and how can employers help employees to access suitable financial guidance and advice, whilst also maintaining their own independence 

Jeanette Makings, Head of Workplace Financial Wellbeing, Close Brothers

Creating employee ownership of pensions to drive value, engagement and retention

• Are you getting value for your pension spend? And if not, what can you do about it?
• Why employee ownership of pensions is key to shifting pensions from an undervalued benefit to an employee engagement and retention tool 
• What are the barriers and blockers to ownership and how to grab employee attention? 
• Making pensions meaningful means making them personal, accessible and easier to understand

Steve Watson, Head of Proposition, Cushon

Case study: Proactive prevention delivers more than £40m cost savings for Centrica

What’s the latest health and lifestyle data telling us and why we need to understand more about what keeps people well (and not just unwell) to support healthy behaviour change

• Proactive prevention and workplace wellbeing at Centrica: what worked, what didn’t and key lessons learned
• How to engage people to think differently on health and wellbeing: personalising initiatives and interventions to meet the different needs of a multigenerational workforce 
• Mitigating insurance costs: the benefits and cost savings of moving to a healthcare trust model

Pamela Gellatly, Strategic Development Director, HCML
David House, Non-Executive Director, HCML (and former Deputy Group HRD and chairman of Centrica’s Healthcare Trust) 

Using family-forming benefits to improve inclusion and employee retention

• How does being a want-to-be or new parent impact on financial wellbeing (pay, career etc), absence and stress?
• Is your family-forming strategy, and the policies and benefits you offer, fit-for-purpose?
• What are the commonly offered family-forming employee benefits?
• How can employers use benefits from diagnostic testing and reproductive health treatments attract, retain and engage their new and want-to-be parents?

Deirdre O'Neill, Co-Founder, Chief Commercial & Legal Officer, Hertility

The unique financial wellbeing challenges facing mid-lifers, and how employers can offer support

Join this session to get fresh, just out-of-the-box insights from Hymans Robertson Personal Wealth from their latest research on the financial wellbeing of those in Generation X.   

Many in Gen X are in the ‘sandwich’ phase, caring for families as well as elderly parents. When it comes to pensions this is also the generation that largely missed out on DB pensions but were too late to be early beneficiaries of auto-enrolment. Other challenges that are unique to their generation include a rise in insecure work, an increase in house prices and more recently an increase in interest rates. Added to that, they’re expected to live longer but spend more of those longer years in poor health than other generations. The outlook looks challenging for many, but employers can help. 

• What strategies can you use to engage a busy generation with their finances? 
• How confident are people about retirement?  
• Do Gen Xers understand the trends that have made their situation more challenging?  
• Financial wellbeing impact on general wellbeing 
• Savings behaviours and habits of this generation 
• What expectations this generation has of their employers 
• Case studies of the impact of financial wellbeing strategies 

Julie Hammerton, Managing Partner, Hymans Robertson Personal Finance

Reframing manager bashing: supporting line managers and their teams to thrive

• Why do Managers get such a hard time? – the challenges facing today’s line managers and why we have to get this right to improve workplace wellbeing
• Unlocking the middle layer – how to create space for Managers to focus on themselves and ultimately create inclusive and more efficient teams
• Levelling up engagement to get to hard to reach groups, demographics and generations
• Leveraging real-time data to drive employee engagement with benefits
• Practical takeaways and key considerations – do your managers really know how your teams are doing?

Ryan Hopkins, Chief Impact Officer, JAAQ

Is rising staff absence the new normal? How preventative Employee Benefits can help improve health outcomes, engage talent and manage costs

• Understand the challenges that workers are facing, and how to help improve engagement, drive down staff absence and manage costs
• How the changes your employees are living through have created a sick and tired workforce needing stability to stand confident in the face of future challenges – and how benefits meet those needs 
• How preventative, protection and risk benefits can motivate and engage employees, supporting retention and aiding recruitment

Adrian Matthews, Head of Employee Benefits UK and Europe, MetLife 
 

Addressing high functioning anxiety in the workplace: is your workplace wellbeing strategy fit for purpose? 

• Understanding the mental wellbeing needs of your employee population 
• The impact of high functioning anxiety – what is it and why does it matter? 
• What’s the data telling us and what steps can you take today to mitigate future psychological threats
• Creating a preventative mental health strategy fit for modern workforce 
• What good looks like and why generational stratification of your wellbeing strategy is key? 

Shamira Graham, Chief Commerical Officer, Onebright 

What role does AI play in reward and benefits and how it can save your job

AI is already impacting the world of benefits and reward, in areas such as benefits administration, benefits selection and modelling potential strategies. Join this myth-busting session to understand exactly how AI will impact your role as a reward and benefit director. 

• The role of AI as an enabler and potential protector of reward and benefits roles
• How embracing AI now will secure your future role 
• What AI will mean for your job and how it will make it a whole lot easier
• Why AI will be key to the success of your employee wellbeing strategies 

Eric Humphrey, VP Engineering, Peppy

How to make your workforce 13 IQ points smarter

Join this session to hear exclusive findings from a world-first study exploring the impact financial stress has on cognition, decision-making and mental wellbeing. 

• Find out about the ‘scarcity mindset’ and how money worries are costing your employees IQ points
• Reclaiming IQ: hear how simple workplace interventions can increase overall wellbeing and free up intelligence
• Discover what good looks like and how an inclusive financial toolkit can lead to positive behavioural change

Emily Trant, Chief Impact Officer, Wagestream

Strategic recognition can strengthen wellbeing initiatives and build a skills-based environment to effectively train and retain talent

• Discover the next steps in organisational skills management with the power of AI, NLP and advanced mapping of capabilities across individuals and organisations
• Learn about the powerful effects a focus on wellbeing can have for your people and your business
• Dive into how recognition can support skills development and foster a culture of learning, in line with core values

Speaker from Workhuman tbc

Panel 2: Current trends and shifts in employee health and protection benefits

11.40am – 1.40pm BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 2 hours

Breakout sessions

• The inflationary pressures and shifting trends making employers and insurers rethink medical and risk benefits
• Managing new ways of working, changing employee expectations and the role of preventative wellbeing
• Aligning health and protection cover with wider ESG and DEI targets
• Solutions and tactics to take now to manage and mitigate future cost increases – on both a global and local basis
• Impact of AI in transforming access to employee health and wellbeing

[with strategic partner: Generali]

Speakers

Daniela Masters

Head of Global Health and Wellbeing Programs, Generali Employee Benefits

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Dana Citron

Head of Global Health and Wellbeing, DHL Group

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Jake Sanders

Global Wellbeing Lead, Diageo

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Lunch and visit exhibition

1.40pm – 2.20pm BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 40 mins

Lunch and visit exhibition

Topical breakout speaker sessions and strategic workshops

2.20pm – 3.05pm BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 45 mins

Hear from industry experts providing actionable advice and insight. Three panels and speaker sessions will run across four concurrent streams during the morning and afternoon. Find out more under the 'More info' button.

Please note that more sessions will be added to the agenda as they are confirmed

Mitigating rising benefit costs with prevention and behaviour change

• People risk trends, the NHS landscape and what claims spend is telling us
• Strategies to better understand risk and leverage your benefit spend to support your EVP and drive behaviour change
• Creating a whole of organisation approach to wellbeing – connecting stakeholders across the organisation to prioritise the wellbeing agenda
• Using data to make better decisions and drive better wellbeing outcomes - what does good look like and how to evolve the human data strategy

David Guy, Strategic Broking Lead, Aon
 

Are we all just wasting our time? The harsh reality of workplace wellbeing

• Why human and organisational health are now indivisible 
• How we can rethink workplace wellbeing from away from risk, to a more sustainable future
• The significance of placing benefits foremost in your wellbeing strategy
• The adaptive capacity of health benefits to achieve organisational goals

Gethin Nadin, Psychologist, Author, and Chief Innovation Officer, Benefex 

Mind the gap - why prevention and health confidence could be the missing link in your health strategy

While the boom in health benefits has focused on providing access to care when things go wrong, the kind of health intelligence that boosts wellness even before the first symptom appears is a regular gap in benefit strategies. Join Bluecrest's CEO Dominque Kent and Chief Medical Officer Dr Martin Thornton as they explore:

• New research about the current state of, and demand for preventative health assessments from employees
• How workforce-wide health insight can support and drive wider health and wellbeing strategies
• Real-life examples of how other businesses are putting health data to use.

Dominique Kent, CEO and Dr Martin Thornton, Chief Medical Officer, Bluecrest

Creating an early cancer detection strategy that works across the whole of workforce

• The current landscape: NHS delays and where the UK stacks up internationally on cancer survival rates
• The role for employers in bridging the gap: the cost impact and wellbeing benefits of early cancer detection, risk assessment and screening programmes  
• Using workplace education campaigns to raise awareness and reduce risk by driving healthy behaviour change
• Support for employees living and working with cancer: practical ways employers can help both individuals and the impact on the wider workforce 
• How the insurance ecosystem shifting to help address and support a cancer workplace strategy 

Professor Gordon Wishart, Founder, Chief Medical Officer and CEO, Check4Cancer

Supporting employees’ need for financial advice: Hot-off-the-press research into the current position and attitudes to financial education, coaching and advice in UK workplaces

Join this session to get an exclusive first-reveal of the findings of brand new research from Close Brothers that explores the current position and attitudes to financial advice in the workplace and provides insight on how employers can support their employees to find suitable professional support. 

• Where are we now: surprising stats and facts from the Close Brothers Spotlight on UK Financial Wellbeing research 
• The mismatch between employee and corporate priorities on how to improve financial wellbeing: why and what are the issues?
• With the increasing prevalence of financial education, coaching and guidance in UK workplaces, what are the current attitudes to financial advice and how can employers help employees to access suitable financial guidance and advice, whilst also maintaining their own independence 

Jeanette Makings, Head of Workplace Financial Wellbeing, Close Brothers

Creating employee ownership of pensions to drive value, engagement and retention

• Are you getting value for your pension spend? And if not, what can you do about it?
• Why employee ownership of pensions is key to shifting pensions from an undervalued benefit to an employee engagement and retention tool 
• What are the barriers and blockers to ownership and how to grab employee attention? 
• Making pensions meaningful means making them personal, accessible and easier to understand

Steve Watson, Head of Proposition, Cushon

Case study: Proactive prevention delivers more than £40m cost savings for Centrica

What’s the latest health and lifestyle data telling us and why we need to understand more about what keeps people well (and not just unwell) to support healthy behaviour change

• Proactive prevention and workplace wellbeing at Centrica: what worked, what didn’t and key lessons learned
• How to engage people to think differently on health and wellbeing: personalising initiatives and interventions to meet the different needs of a multigenerational workforce 
• Mitigating insurance costs: the benefits and cost savings of moving to a healthcare trust model

Pamela Gellatly, Strategic Development Director, HCML
David House, Non-Executive Director, HCML (and former Deputy Group HRD and chairman of Centrica’s Healthcare Trust) 

Using family-forming benefits to improve inclusion and employee retention

• How does being a want-to-be or new parent impact on financial wellbeing (pay, career etc), absence and stress?
• Is your family-forming strategy, and the policies and benefits you offer, fit-for-purpose?
• What are the commonly offered family-forming employee benefits?
• How can employers use benefits from diagnostic testing and reproductive health treatments attract, retain and engage their new and want-to-be parents?

Deirdre O'Neill, Co-Founder, Chief Commercial & Legal Officer, Hertility

The unique financial wellbeing challenges facing mid-lifers, and how employers can offer support

Join this session to get fresh, just out-of-the-box insights from Hymans Robertson Personal Wealth from their latest research on the financial wellbeing of those in Generation X.   

Many in Gen X are in the ‘sandwich’ phase, caring for families as well as elderly parents. When it comes to pensions this is also the generation that largely missed out on DB pensions but were too late to be early beneficiaries of auto-enrolment. Other challenges that are unique to their generation include a rise in insecure work, an increase in house prices and more recently an increase in interest rates. Added to that, they’re expected to live longer but spend more of those longer years in poor health than other generations. The outlook looks challenging for many, but employers can help. 

• What strategies can you use to engage a busy generation with their finances? 
• How confident are people about retirement?  
• Do Gen Xers understand the trends that have made their situation more challenging?  
• Financial wellbeing impact on general wellbeing 
• Savings behaviours and habits of this generation 
• What expectations this generation has of their employers 
• Case studies of the impact of financial wellbeing strategies 

Julie Hammerton, Managing Partner, Hymans Robertson Personal Finance

Reframing manager bashing: supporting line managers and their teams to thrive

• Why do Managers get such a hard time? – the challenges facing today’s line managers and why we have to get this right to improve workplace wellbeing
• Unlocking the middle layer – how to create space for Managers to focus on themselves and ultimately create inclusive and more efficient teams
• Levelling up engagement to get to hard to reach groups, demographics and generations
• Leveraging real-time data to drive employee engagement with benefits
• Practical takeaways and key considerations – do your managers really know how your teams are doing?

Ryan Hopkins, Chief Impact Officer, JAAQ

Is rising staff absence the new normal? How preventative Employee Benefits can help improve health outcomes, engage talent and manage costs

• Understand the challenges that workers are facing, and how to help improve engagement, drive down staff absence and manage costs
• How the changes your employees are living through have created a sick and tired workforce needing stability to stand confident in the face of future challenges – and how benefits meet those needs 
• How preventative, protection and risk benefits can motivate and engage employees, supporting retention and aiding recruitment

Adrian Matthews, Head of Employee Benefits UK and Europe, MetLife 
 

Addressing high functioning anxiety in the workplace: is your workplace wellbeing strategy fit for purpose? 

• Understanding the mental wellbeing needs of your employee population 
• The impact of high functioning anxiety – what is it and why does it matter? 
• What’s the data telling us and what steps can you take today to mitigate future psychological threats
• Creating a preventative mental health strategy fit for modern workforce 
• What good looks like and why generational stratification of your wellbeing strategy is key? 

Shamira Graham, Chief Commerical Officer, Onebright 

What role does AI play in reward and benefits and how it can save your job

AI is already impacting the world of benefits and reward, in areas such as benefits administration, benefits selection and modelling potential strategies. Join this myth-busting session to understand exactly how AI will impact your role as a reward and benefit director. 

• The role of AI as an enabler and potential protector of reward and benefits roles
• How embracing AI now will secure your future role 
• What AI will mean for your job and how it will make it a whole lot easier
• Why AI will be key to the success of your employee wellbeing strategies 

Eric Humphrey, VP Engineering, Peppy

How to make your workforce 13 IQ points smarter

Join this session to hear exclusive findings from a world-first study exploring the impact financial stress has on cognition, decision-making and mental wellbeing. 

• Find out about the ‘scarcity mindset’ and how money worries are costing your employees IQ points
• Reclaiming IQ: hear how simple workplace interventions can increase overall wellbeing and free up intelligence
• Discover what good looks like and how an inclusive financial toolkit can lead to positive behavioural change

Emily Trant, Chief Impact Officer, Wagestream

Strategic recognition can strengthen wellbeing initiatives and build a skills-based environment to effectively train and retain talent

• Discover the next steps in organisational skills management with the power of AI, NLP and advanced mapping of capabilities across individuals and organisations
• Learn about the powerful effects a focus on wellbeing can have for your people and your business
• Dive into how recognition can support skills development and foster a culture of learning, in line with core values

Speaker from Workhuman tbc

Visit the exhibition

3.05pm – 3.40pm BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 35 mins

Explore the mix of established big-name suppliers and fresh new innovators - all offering the latest solutions across physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing.

Curated roundtables or visit exhibition

3.40pm – 4.25pm BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 45 mins

Curated Roundtable Discussions

1. Mitigating future workforce health risks: the rise of prevention benefits to address future health needs
2. Building financial literacy across different life ages and stages
3. Reviewing benefits for value, impact and effectiveness
4. Global benefits design to support inclusive and equitable access
5. Pay and reward strategies to support employee wellbeing
6. Impact of AI and digitisation on benefits decision-making and delivery
7. Mental resilience: strategies for a multi-generational workforce
8. Benefits to support life stages and major life events

Closing keynote: On the sofa with… Claudia Winkleman

4.25pm – 5pm BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 35 mins

Keynote

Known for her signature fringe and engaging on-screen presence, BAFTA award-winning television presenter, radio personality and journalist Claudia Winkleman will bring her quick wit to the REBA Wellbeing Congress closing keynote interview. The Strictly Come Dancing and The Traitors host will join Debi O’Donovan on the sofa to talk about life, work and wellbeing following her recent decision to leave Radio 2 to spend more time with the family.

Speakers

Claudia Winkleman

Television presenter, radio personality and journalist

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Final remarks and close of conference

5pm – 5.10pm BST, 20 June 2024 ‐ 10 mins

Keynote