
Employee Engagement Summit 2019
Thursday, 28 March 2019 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
£449.00 – £499.00
Hilton Hotel, Canary Wharf
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Employee engagement is not a new concept. There is a wealth of case studies, best practice and evidence supporting its impact on driving productivity, collaboration, wellbeing, innovation and the bottom-line.
There are however changing circumstances that consistently require organisations to review and benchmark the way that they view and manage employee engagement. The 14th Annual Employee Engagement Summit 2019 will provide an understanding of the latest research, data and thought leadership on successfully engaging employees in the workplace.
We will hear from organisations who will share key insights into how they are leading the way through engaging their employees and effective reward strategies and best practice for 2019.
All information about this conference are subject to change as we are in the process of finalising details.
Who should attend:
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Head of Recruitment / Talent acquisition
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Head of HR
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Learning and development Directors/Managers
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Talent Management
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Employee Relations
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Emerging talent
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Graduate Recruitment Managers
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Early careers Managers
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Campus / school Engagement Managers
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Student Acquisition Managers
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Event Sponsors
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RTG Wellness
Your Expert Workplace Wellness Services Company "An excellent service to employees: Reckitt Benckiser" Delivering hands on services and training across the full wellness spectrum for companies across the UK and Ireland. RTG has worked with and are still working with some of the UK's biggest companies such as Moet Hennessy, LVMH, Unilever, Zoopla, Allianz, Virgin, The Trainline, Kraft Heinz, Lego, John Lewis and PWC. |
Sponsors
If your organisation would be interested in promoting itself through the wide variety of exhibitions, sponsorship and marketing opportunities available at this event, please visit our sponsorship mini-site or contact our sales team at sales@symposium-events.co.uk or 020 7231 5100.

Employee Engagement Summit 2019
Programme
09:00 | Coffee and Registration | ||
09:30 | Chair’s opening remarks
This year’s conference features extended opening remark, by previewing the findings of the largest study of barriers to team engagement in the UK to date, which is led by Dr Amy Armstrong. The research, which has been widely publicised across national and international media, challenges binary notions of engagement and questions if engagement surveys present the true story when it comes to team engagement. It also presents a new way of looking at team engagement across four ‘zones’ where teams were found to be ‘comfortable’ or ‘playing the game’ rather than engaged or disengaged. Dr Amy Armstong, Faculty and Program Director, Hult International Business School |
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10:10 | Creating an effective employee engagement strategy that drives individuals, team and organisational performance
Faran Johnson, Managing Director, Engage for Success |
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10:35 | Capturing a true measure of employee engagement levels
Kav Patel, HR & People Specialist, Board Member of Investment 20/20 |
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11:00 | Questions and discussion with speakers | ||
11:10 | Refreshments and networking | ||
11:30 | Why line managers are our key to success
Christopher Coburn, Global Head of Internal Communication, Xe |
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11:55 | Finding low cost, high impact employee engagement strategies
Aimee Badcock, Head of HR, Personal Health, Philips UKI |
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12:20 | Questions and discussion with speakers | ||
12:30 | Lunch and networking | ||
13:30 | Knowledge share networking session
Roundtable discussions with your peers to share solutions to key challenges Focus: How to improve engagement across a diverse and evolving workforce |
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14:00 | Maintaining and adapting employee engagement strategy through periods of change
Kerry Freeman, Head of Culture, RBS |
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14:25 | Ten innovations to add life to your engagement strategy
Jon Ingham, HR and OD Consultant |
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14:50 | Questions and discussion with speakers | ||
15:00 | Refreshments and networking | ||
15:20 | Panel discussion: new ways of working and engaging in the future
Phil Pringle, Head of Insight and Engagement, Whitbread Group, PLC Alex Nelson, Senior Colleague Experience Manager, HR, Marks and Spencer Plc James Johnson, Group CEO, Nicoll Curtin |
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15:45 | Case study: Using data to improve the employee experience and predict turnover
Alex Nelson, Senior Colleague Experience Manager, HR, Marks and Spencer Plc |
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16:10 | Questions and discussion with speakers | ||
16:20 | Chair’s closing remarks and end of conference |
Speakers
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CHAIR – Dr Amy Armstrong, Faculty and Programme Director, Hult International Business School Amy is senior faculty at Ashridge Executive Education, part of Hult International Business School. Her teaching and research interests include personal resilience; engagement; authenticity and compassion at work. She is particularly interested in how ‘crucible’ experiences in one’s personal life, such as bereavement, illness or family breakdown, shape who we are and how we lead. She runs leadership courses across Ashridge-Hult and works with a variety of international corporate clients. Amy is a Visiting Scholar at Aston University. She also leads the research into barriers to engagement for Engage for Success, a UK Government-led movement which is seeking to improve levels of engagement and well-being across industry. . |
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Alex Nelson, Employee Engagement Manager, Marks and Spencer Alex Nelson is Employee Engagement Manager for Marks and Spencer, responsible for delivery of their global employee survey and people insight. With a history of working in a range of roles on the frontline of retail and hospitality, he brings to the team an understanding of the challenges and opportunities that exist in a large retail organisation. Currently working to develop a market leading employee insight strategy that delivers clear stories, themes and actions from employee feedback and enables M&S to make sure it is looking after all their employees, no matter their background or the challenges they face. Alex holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and Politics, is a keen cyclist and record collector. |
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Faran Johnson, Managing Director, Engage for Success Faran Johnson is a highly experienced change and transformation professional who has recently been appointed as the Managing Director of Engage for Success, formed to promote employee engagement as a better way to work that benefits individual employees, teams, whole organisations and the country. Her 30 year career spans both the private and the public sectors, operating in senior line, consulting and Board roles across Private Equity, Financial Services, Entertainment, Retail and Media organisations. She specialises in both large-scale workforce and HR function transformation, from strategy design through to execution; from behavioural, cultural and leadership change to improving organisational performance.
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Christopher Coburn, Global Head of Internal Communication, Xe Christopher has spent more than ten years connecting people to each other and their business through great internal communication and engagement, mainly within the John Lewis Partnership but the past few months with Xe. He has also clocked up more than 15 years’ experience as a line manager and even tried his hand in a non-executive director role. Chris is currently studying for a Masters in Internal Communication management, of which employee engagement is a large part. |
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Phil Pringle, Head of Insight and Engagement, Whitbread Group Plc Phil has more than 12 years’ experience working in the field of employee engagement research and people insight. Phil is focused on enhancing Whitbread’s ability to understand employee attraction, engagement and retention through data integration and analytics. |
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Aimée Badcock, Head of HR, Personal Health, Philips UKI Aimée joined Philips in early 2014 and during this time has worked across the consumer and healthcare businesses focusing on employee engagement, talent management, organisational design and retention. Aimée has over 15 years generalist experience gained across many different sectors supporting leaders meet challenging business goals, in an ever changing environment. However, her real passion lies in empowering employees to reach their full potential and drive their career through fostering a learning culture that supports employability, engagement and retention. |
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Kerry Freeman, Head of Culture, RBS |
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Details
- Date:
- Thursday, 28 March 2019
- Time:
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9:00 am - 4:30 pm
- Cost:
- £449.00 – £499.00
- Event Categories:
- All Conferences, HR Conferences
Venue
- Hilton Hotel, Canary Wharf, London
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South Quay, Marsh Wall
London, E14 9SH United Kingdom + Google Map
Organiser
- Symposium Events
- Phone:
- 020 7231 5100
- Email:
- accounts@symposium.co.uk