Agenda: Thursday, 20 June 2024
Now in its 9th year, the carefully curated content-led agenda at the REBA Wellbeing Congress provides senior reward, benefits and wellbeing directors with the opportunity to take valuable time away from the day-job where they can learn, share, network and reflect. Combining leading-edge thinking with practical tips and guidance, the REBA Wellbeing Congress agenda features keynote talks, topical speaker sessions, panel debates, workshops, masterclasses and roundtable discussions.
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8.20am – 9am
By invitation only - Breakfast demo workshop: Using AI to bring Spotify-level personalisation and UX to employee benefits
By invitation only - Breakfast demo workshop: Using AI to bring Spotify-level personalisation and UX to employee benefits
INVITATION ONLY workshop, Affiliation 1
Join this exclusive workshop to watch the launch of Peppy’s AI-driven employee benefits communication platform. Hear from Evan, Peppy’s CEO, who will explain how AI can solve some of the biggest challenges facing reward and benefits professionals today.
Don't miss this FIRST-EVER live demo showcasing how Peppy’s new AI-first platform:
- Improves benefits awareness and utilisation
- Uses real-time analytics to drive down costs and improve ROI
- Gives you the tools to design a more strategic, impactful and cost-efficient benefits package
Following the demo, Peppy will host an interactive Q&A and the opportunity for attendees to get free and immediate access to the platform, along with referral codes for 10 of their colleagues.
By invitation only - Breakfast demo workshop: Creating a seamless benefits experience with the brand new, PwC-owned Benefits+ flexible benefits platform, hosted in Workday
By invitation only - Breakfast demo workshop: Creating a seamless benefits experience with the brand new, PwC-owned Benefits+ flexible benefits platform, hosted in Workday
INVITATION ONLY workshop, Affiliation 3
Creating a seamless benefits experience with the brand new, PwC-owned Benefits+ flexible benefits platform, hosted in Workday.
UK-first demo of Benefits+ from PwC, exclusively for existing and soon-to-be Workday HCM customers.
Join this innovation showcase to find out more about Benefits+, a brand new, PwC-owned flexible benefits platform hosted in Workday.
Hear directly from the PwC experts who will explain what Benefits+ does and why it was created (delivering a flexible benefits solution within Workday) along with a demo of the software to see how this could transform the benefits experience for you and your organisation. The demo will cover:
- Why Benefits+ was built and how the first implementation went for PwC UK, driving cost reduction, simplification and an improved the user experience for employees
- Key outcomes – 10% increase in engagement with benefits for PwC UK at launch
- A full demonstration, including key features such as the Total Reward Statement and more
Following the demo, the team behind one of the most ambitious applications ever built within Workday will host a Q&A session to answer questions and explain more about how this brand-new to market solution can support you and your business to elevate the benefits experience.
Speakers
9.15am – 9.25am
Chair’s welcome and introduction
9.25am – 10.05am
Opening keynote: Why we must focus on healthy ageing to create a resilient multigenerational workforce
Opening keynote: Why we must focus on healthy ageing to create a resilient multigenerational workforce
Keynote, Enterprise
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
Moderator:
Jo Gallacher, Content Director, REBA
Speakers
Supporting employees’ need for financial advice: Hot-off-the-press research into the current position and attitudes to financial wellbeing in UK workplaces
Supporting employees’ need for financial advice: Hot-off-the-press research into the current position and attitudes to financial wellbeing in UK workplaces
Speaker session, Interact
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
Moderator:
Jake Attfield, Programme Manager for Strategy
I shouldn’t say this but … we’ve got workplace health wrong
I shouldn’t say this but … we’ve got workplace health wrong
Speaker session, Enterprise
Forbes 30 under 30 finalist and award-winning workplace health entrepreneur, Harry Bliss, will reveal the truth about why workplace health strategies haven't worked, and what we can do to fix them. In this session, Harry will share with you the research and evidence behind:
- Why we're using the wrong data (and what data we should be using)
- Why engagement is consistently a challenge (and how to solve this)
- Why we're measuring the wrong things (and what we should measure)
- Why employees don't feel like wellbeing programmes 'speak to them' (and how we can fix this)
- Where we've gone wrong in selecting wellbeing services (and how we can get this right)
At the end, he will share exclusive early-access data from our upcoming Employee Mental Health Handbook – sharing over 1 million data points from around the globe about the latest workplace health trends.
Moderator:
Katharine Moxam, Spokesperson, Group Risk Development (GRiD)
Using data and wellbeing analytics to improve workforce resilience
Using data and wellbeing analytics to improve workforce resilience
Speaker session, Synergy
Drawing on Barnett Waddingham’s latest Employee Equation report, this session goes behind the research to reveal for the first time some deeper data and insights exploring how employers can use their unique Employer DNA to drive behaviour change and improve both employee and business resilience.
- What the data is and isn’t telling us - identifying your Employer DNA to highlight areas requiring investment and target spend for greater impact
- Focusing in on preventative measures – to drive change, mitigate premium increases, and build resilience
- The principles of using the right intervention at the right time – role of HR processes and early access services
- Grabbing employee attention and driving utilisation of wellbeing benefits and services through effective, targeted and issue-led communications
Moderator:
Jenni Wilson, Session moderator
10.40am – 11.25am
Panel: Current trends and shifts in employee health and protection benefits
Panel: Current trends and shifts in employee health and protection benefits
Panel session, Partnership
- 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]
Moderator:
Debi O’ Donovan, Founder and Director, REBA
Masterclass: Shifting responsibilities and practical ways to unlock everyone’s health at work (launching the 2024 Employee Wellbeing Research)
Masterclass: Shifting responsibilities and practical ways to unlock everyone’s health at work (launching the 2024 Employee Wellbeing Research)
Masterclass (NEW), Affiliation 1 & 2
Launching the 2024 Employee Wellbeing Research – tap into leading-edge thinking on the shifting responsibility and ownership of employee wellbeing and practical ways you can unlock everyone’s health at work
- Using data to show the impact of employee health on HR and business strategy
- The shift of responsibility for health from the State, and what that means for employers and employees
- Leadership fostering a culture of kindness and embedding healthcare responsibility across the workforce
- What this means in practice: building line manager and wellbeing advocate capability and leveraging Employee Resource Groups to engage different cohorts
- The role of coaching to influence behaviours and achieve positive and healthy behaviour change
- Diversity and impactful engagement, example led - AXA Health’s ‘We Care’ programme supporting UK wide employee base
Moderator:
Aidan Lever, Research Director, REBA
Invitation-only workshop: Tackling inequalities in workplace healthcare: how to create fair and equitable access for your employees
Invitation-only workshop: Tackling inequalities in workplace healthcare: how to create fair and equitable access for your employees
INVITATION ONLY workshop, Connection boardroom
Of the 35 million employees in the UK, only around six million receive workplace health cover in some form. And yet health equity in the workplace is an essential component of overall employee wellbeing and key to creating a healthier, happier and more productive workforce. With ever-increasing pressures on the NHS, along with the cost-of-living crisis, employees are looking to their employer to help bridge the gap with access to affordable everyday healthcare.
We believe an evolution is needed! Join this workshop to discuss and debate with peers on this vital topic. We’ll explore the generic challenges facing employers, as well as some of the specific issues facing different industry sectors and the steps they can take to create fairer and more equitable access to workplace health cover.
Key discussion points:
- What are the key challenges you face in providing access to healthcare for your workforce?
- What are you seeing in your organisation and how do the healthcare needs differ across your employee population?
- What policies, practices and health and wellbeing benefits do you currently have in place to help mitigate this?
11.05am – 11.25am
Fireside chat: Working for the future by supporting employees to become financially resilient
Fireside chat: Working for the future by supporting employees to become financially resilient
Speaker session, Interact
Karen Hartmann, Head of Compensation and Benefits EMEA at Moody’s Corporation sits down with Emma Douglas, Workplace Managing Director at Aviva to discuss the latest findings and themes uncovered by Aviva’s 2024 Working Lives Report. They’ll explore what the findings mean in practice for employers - looking at some of the initiatives underway at Moody’s on their journey to ensure the financial wellbeing needs of all employees are being met – and will consider what more providers can do to support employers and their employees in their journey to achieving positive retirement outcomes. The discussion will focus on three key areas:
- Financial wellbeing: What are the current trends and challenges for employers and how we can help employees to be financially resilient?
- Workplaces ready for change: As the workforce continues to evolve to become more diverse than ever, how can workplaces ensure they meet the needs of all employees?
- Planning for retirement: With people working for longer, what steps can employers take to support their over 50s and maximise the opportunity from this part of their workforce?
Moderator:
Jake Attfield, Programme Manager for Strategy
Using strategic recognition to strengthen wellbeing initiatives and build a skills-based environment to effectively train and retain talent
Using strategic recognition to strengthen wellbeing initiatives and build a skills-based environment to effectively train and retain talent
Speaker session, Enterprise
- 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
Moderator:
Katharine Moxam, Spokesperson, Group Risk Development (GRiD)
The ever-evolving role of employee benefits software in employee wellbeing
The ever-evolving role of employee benefits software in employee wellbeing
Speaker session, Synergy
- Enhancing ROI on your wellbeing spend with employee benefits software
- How employee benefits software can support behavioural change to improve employee health outcomes
- Reducing employee sickness and absence with employee benefits software
- How employee benefits software can support better alignment between wellbeing and your overall employee value proposition
- Exploring the value intersection between consulting and digital solutions in relation to employee wellbeing
Moderator:
Jenni Wilson, Session moderator
Exclusive findings: The impact of financial stress on workforce wellbeing and productivity
Exclusive findings: The impact of financial stress on workforce wellbeing and productivity
Speaker session, Interact
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
Moderator:
Jake Attfield, Programme Manager for Strategy
Reframing manager bashing: supporting line managers and their teams to thrive
Reframing manager bashing: supporting line managers and their teams to thrive
Speaker session, Enterprise
- 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?
Moderator:
Katharine Moxam, Spokesperson, Group Risk Development (GRiD)
Case study: Proactive prevention through healthcare trust delivers more than £40m cost savings for Centrica
Case study: Proactive prevention through healthcare trust delivers more than £40m cost savings for Centrica
Speaker session, Partnership
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
Moderator:
Janet Cooper OBE, Chair of Remuneration Committee, Nurture Landscapes Group
Addressing high functioning anxiety in the workplace: is your workplace wellbeing strategy fit for purpose?
Addressing high functioning anxiety in the workplace: is your workplace wellbeing strategy fit for purpose?
Speaker session, Synergy
- 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?
Moderator:
Jenni Wilson, Session moderator
11.45am – 12.30pm
Masterclass: Get behind the latest Benefits Design research to understand how business and cost pressures will drive the need for more evidence-based benefits strategies
Masterclass: Get behind the latest Benefits Design research to understand how business and cost pressures will drive the need for more evidence-based benefits strategies
Masterclass (NEW), Affiliation 1 & 2
Join this session to explore the latest REBA Benefits Design research in association with Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing where we will uncover:
- Major trends, insights and key findings
- What internal and external factors are creating the most pressure on benefits programmes
- The changes employers have made in the last 12 months, where that leaves their programmes and what success they are achieving
- What most employers are planning for the next 12-24 months and what barriers are preventing that change
Moderator:
Aidan Lever, Research Director, REBA
Invitation-only workshop: Using Strategic Recognition to Drive Workplace Culture Goals
Invitation-only workshop: Using Strategic Recognition to Drive Workplace Culture Goals
INVITATION ONLY workshop, Connection boardroom
Dig into the latest Gallup and Workhuman research to uncover how recognition reinforces company culture, in parallel with core values. How employees experience their organisation’s day-to-day culture is hugely important, and a connection to culture drives professional and personal results, and strengthens resilience in times of change. Join this workshop to understand what this means in practice and how you can apply these insights within your organisation to drive and transform workplace cohesion, connection and culture goals.
Key discussion points:
- What approach and initiatives do you have in place to foster social connection at individual, team and workplace levels?
- Getting leadership and line manager buy in: assigning exec roles and supporting them to champion recognition by modelling desired behaviours
- What does a blueprint for social recognition success look like and how can you apply this to your organisation?
- Defining your metrics for success – identify what success means for your organisation, set the right targets, measure for impact and respond to employee feedback
- What does recognition feel like for your employees – is it consistent across the entire organisation?
- What steps can you take to improve the efficiency and governance of recognition?
12.10pm – 12.30pm
Global financial wellbeing: exploring employee financial health and revealing the secret to achieving financial goals
Global financial wellbeing: exploring employee financial health and revealing the secret to achieving financial goals
Speaker session, Interact
Join this session for the latest insights from nudge’s 2024 Global financial wellbeing research, including:
- How your employees’ financial health varies across the globe
- What the macro-economic backdrop means for employee anxiety, shame, envy, hope and pride
- How to help your people achieve their financial goals
Moderator:
Jake Attfield, Programme Manager for Strategy
Are we all just wasting our time? The harsh reality of workplace wellbeing
Are we all just wasting our time? The harsh reality of workplace wellbeing
Speaker session, Enterprise
- 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
Moderator:
Katharine Moxam, Spokesperson, Group Risk Development (GRiD)
Mitigating rising benefit costs with prevention and behaviour change
Mitigating rising benefit costs with prevention and behaviour change
Speaker session, Partnership
- 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
Moderator:
Janet Cooper OBE, Chair of Remuneration Committee, Nurture Landscapes Group
Rethinking wellbeing: Unpacking the proof that a box-ticking exercise is not enough
Rethinking wellbeing: Unpacking the proof that a box-ticking exercise is not enough
Speaker session, Synergy
With the NHS still under pressure, employee health worsening and UK business feeling the strain, it’s more important than ever that employers deal with organisational health and wellbeing in a fully effective, evidence-based and sustainable way. Starting with prevention, this needs to incorporate an end-to-end approach to healthcare through early intervention and holistic support during treatment. By sharing data to help you prove at board-level some of the important and previously unanswered questions facing workplace wellbeing professionals, join us to examine:
- The proof that workplace wellbeing benefits and services effectively drive employee engagement and positively impact behaviour
- The proof that an end-to-end approach to workplace wellbeing initiatives can help employees live longer and reduce healthcare expenditure
- The proof that workplace wellbeing benefits and services boost employee performance, productivity and job satisfaction
Moderator:
Jenni Wilson, Session moderator
The unique financial wellbeing challenges facing mid-lifers, and how employers can offer support
The unique financial wellbeing challenges facing mid-lifers, and how employers can offer support
Speaker session, Interact
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
Moderator:
Jake Attfield, Programme Manager for Strategy
Mind the gap - why prevention and health confidence could be the missing link in your health strategy
Mind the gap - why prevention and health confidence could be the missing link in your health strategy
Speaker session, Enterprise
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 to 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.
Moderator:
Katharine Moxam, Spokesperson, Group Risk Development (GRiD)
Exploring Healthcare Trusts & The integral role of a Nurse-Led service
Exploring Healthcare Trusts & The integral role of a Nurse-Led service
Speaker session, Synergy
- Exploring viability, impact, costs, experience and administration of healthcare trusts
- What are the design pros and cons of a trust for your workforce
- The value of clinical expertise and the benefits of a nurse-led service for employers and employees
Moderator:
Jenni Wilson, Session moderator
1.45pm – 2.30pm
Panel: What are the workforce wellbeing issues coming down the line: and how Gen Z are shaking up the employee experience
Panel: What are the workforce wellbeing issues coming down the line: and how Gen Z are shaking up the employee experience
Panel session, Partnership
- The shifting cultural expectations and specific mental health and wellbeing issues facing Gen Z as they enter the world of work
- What is the experience for employers so far and how is this influencing reward and benefits strategies to attract a younger talent pool?
- How will Gen Z attitudes and the way they work influence change? Do they hold the key to improved workforce wellbeing and a better experience of work for all?
- Focusing in on financial wellbeing and the financial pressures facing younger workers – how can employers help?
- How can employers help support and build resilience in the next generation of workers?
Moderator:
Jo Gallacher, Content Director, REBA
Masterclass: Building inclusive benefits: access the latest WTW global wellbeing research and hear directly from employers as they debate if inclusive employee benefits actually create inequality
Masterclass: Building inclusive benefits: access the latest WTW global wellbeing research and hear directly from employers as they debate if inclusive employee benefits actually create inequality
Masterclass (NEW), Affiliation 1 & 2
Join this fast-paced interactive session which looks at how organisations can create inclusive benefits programmes that reduce inequity, foster diversity, and promote a more equitable and sustainable workplace.Get exclusive insights from WTW’s latest employee wellbeing research and global benefits employee attitudes survey and hear directly from employers about how they are using data insights to ensure their employee benefits selection is relevant and fit for a modern workforce.
- Leverage the latest insights and tools: Explore the latest insights from WTW’s extensive global wellbeing and employee surveys and assess how inclusive your benefits really are.
- Attracting and retaining diverse talent: Discover strategies to create benefits packages that appeal to a wide range of candidates, ensuring your organization attracts and retains a diverse workforce.
- Equitable access to benefits: Learn how to design benefits programs that provide equitable health and wealth outcomes while acknowledging that different individuals may have varying needs and priorities.
- Sustainability and CSR agenda: Understand how to align your organization's benefits offerings with sustainability and corporate social responsibility goals, creating a positive impact on both employees and the wider community.
- Compliance: Understand the EU Pay Transparency Directive implications for benefits and how knowing what benefits are being provided and how equitable they are, will be a crucial step for companies with operation in EU member states.
Moderator:
Aidan Lever, Research Director, REBA
Invitation-only workshop: Managing and mitigating the economic and emotional impact of life events and challenges on your workforce
Invitation-only workshop: Managing and mitigating the economic and emotional impact of life events and challenges on your workforce
INVITATION ONLY workshop, Connection boardroom
New research shows that the personal life events of employees, such as caregiving responsibilities, divorce and relationships breakdown and bereavement can have a significant negative economic impact on your business and cause a heavy toll of emotional, physical and financial disruption for employees. Join this session to gain valuable knowledge and insights about the disruption and cost associated with employee life events and changes and how employer-provided support for affected employees can have positive benefits for individuals and a positive financial return for employers.
Key discussion points:
- Understanding the risks - what the research is telling us about the number of employees effected by life event issues and challenges, the impact of them personally and the wider productivity and business costs
- What is your experience of the impact of life events on your employees and which life events, such as caregiving, divorce or bereavement are most prevalent?
- Are there subjects which are still considered “taboo” in the workplace? How can we work towards a culture of greater openness and is this desirable?
- What initiatives, policies and practices do you have in place to support the workforce through challenging life events? What’s working well and what hasn’t been so successful?
- Tools and tips on how to get senior leadership buy-in, attention and investment in the provision of life event support
- How do you measure the impact of these interventions, are you seeing improvements in attrition and absence rates where specific support is provided for employees?
Speakers
2.10pm – 2.30pm
Creating employee ownership of pensions to drive value, engagement and retention
Creating employee ownership of pensions to drive value, engagement and retention
Speaker session, Interact
- 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
Moderator:
Jake Attfield, Programme Manager for Strategy
Using family-forming benefits to improve inclusion and employee retention
Using family-forming benefits to improve inclusion and employee retention
Speaker session, Enterprise
- 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?
Moderator:
Katharine Moxam, Spokesperson, Group Risk Development (GRiD)
Creating an early cancer detection strategy that works across the whole of workforce
Creating an early cancer detection strategy that works across the whole of workforce
Speaker session, Synergy
- 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
Moderator:
Jenni Wilson, Session moderator
Wellbeing data: A pragmatic approach to data and analytics
Wellbeing data: A pragmatic approach to data and analytics
Speaker session, Interact
- Why data matters – efficiency, costs and your EVP
- Why change is slow – you are not alone
- How effective data analytics can transform your strategy – sharing research and evidence about employee sentiment, the art of the possible and the future of benefits
- Pragmatic steps you can take immediately – detailing the process, covering what is out there and how to use it
Moderator:
Jake Attfield, Programme Manager for Strategy
Case study with AWE: Redefining the recipe of workplace productivity
Case study with AWE: Redefining the recipe of workplace productivity
Speaker session, Enterprise
Research commissioned by Unum from independent thinktank, WPI Economics shows that 8 in 10 workers say they are more productive at work when they are healthy and happy.
But how do you maximise the productivity of your workforce through a health and wellbeing strategy? Joining Unum on stage will be large national employer, AWE. With over 7,000 employees, they will offer valuable insights into their own journey, showcasing best practices of how they have transformed their health and wellbeing strategy and effectively engaged staff through comprehensive digital support. Together, Unum and AWE will talk about how strategies like this effectively reduce sickness absence levels, enhance staff retention and boost productivity.
Moderator:
Katharine Moxam, Spokesperson, Group Risk Development (GRiD)
Insights and lessons on how to use data to drive value and create consistency in your global wellbeing strategy
Insights and lessons on how to use data to drive value and create consistency in your global wellbeing strategy
Speaker session, Synergy
- Understand how global organisations are using data to support their employee's wellbeing journey
- How can data help you drive consistency in wellbeing initiatives?
- What the data tells us about technology’s role in wellbeing and the needs of different generations and employee groups
Moderator:
Jenni Wilson, Session moderator
2.40pm – 3.25pm
Panel: Pay and Reward strategies to support employee wellbeing
Panel: Pay and Reward strategies to support employee wellbeing
Panel session, Partnership
- 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
[with strategic partner: KPMG]
Moderator:
Janet Cooper OBE, Chair of Remuneration Committee, Nurture Landscapes Group
Masterclass: A healthy workforce - opportunities to retain great talent while mitigating the risks of rising healthcare costs and long-term chronic illnesses for businesses
Masterclass: A healthy workforce - opportunities to retain great talent while mitigating the risks of rising healthcare costs and long-term chronic illnesses for businesses
Masterclass (NEW), Affiliation 1 & 2
Delving into why employers must act now to manage the impacts of a healthcare system in crisis, rising PMI and an ageing population, join this session to gain inspiration, thought leadership, knowledge sharing and practical lessons.
- Current healthcare trends in the UK – and how it is impacting the workforce
- The relationship between the workplace, the health economy and the employee
- What can be done to build a healthy ageing workforce and keep people in work longer
- Practical steps you can take to mitigate the health risks and costs that are coming to employers by supporting employees through healthcare crises and caring responsibilities
- Tips, tools and data to help secure senior leadership buy-in and investment
- What does good look like in practice – case study from Phoenix
Moderator:
Aidan Lever, Research Director, REBA
3.05pm – 3.25pm
Shaping the future of workplace financial wellbeing and what the ingredients for success look like
Shaping the future of workplace financial wellbeing and what the ingredients for success look like
Speaker session, Interact
The factors influencing financial wellbeing strategies are changing. Drawing on insights from the latest REBA Financial Wellbeing Research in association with WEALTH at Work, this session will explore:
- Latest thinking and perspectives on the key topics set to shape future financial wellbeing strategies
- The role of financial wellbeing in supporting HR goals such as recruiting, retaining employees, return on investment and improving productivity
- What is delivering the most value for employers and their employees when it comes to the ingredients for a truly joined-up and successful financial wellbeing strategy?
- What is the Art of the possible?
Moderator:
Jake Attfield, Programme Manager for Strategy
What role does AI play in reward and benefits and how it can save your job
What role does AI play in reward and benefits and how it can save your job
Speaker session, Enterprise
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
Moderator:
Katharine Moxam, Spokesperson, Group Risk Development (GRiD)
Is rising staff absence the new normal? How preventative Employee Benefits can help improve health outcomes, engage talent and manage costs
Is rising staff absence the new normal? How preventative Employee Benefits can help improve health outcomes, engage talent and manage costs
Speaker session, Synergy
- 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
Moderator:
Jenni Wilson, Session moderator
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
4.40pm – 5.15pm
Closing keynote: On the sofa with… Claudia Winkleman
Closing keynote: On the sofa with… Claudia Winkleman
Keynote, Enterprise
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
