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09.00 - 09.30
Coffee & Registration

09.30 - 09.50
Introduction and Opening Address by Conference Chair
The Power of Well-Being at Work

Nic Marks, Founder of the centre for wellbeing,
new economics foundation

09.50 - 10.15
Prevention is Better than Cure: Monitoring the Health of your Employees  

  • Tailoring well-being initiatives to the needs of your employees
  • Eliminating presenteeism
  • Upstream medicine: Predicting illness
  • Calculating return on investment

Dr Dorian Dugmore, Director, Wellness International at adidas

10.15 - 10.40
Keynote Address
Transforming Well-Being into an Organisation-Wide Initiative

  • Promoting an integrated approach to well-being across your organisation
  • Implementing the "Global Corporate Challenge" at Nestlé UK
  • Increasing mental resilience through management development
  • Increasing productivity through improved health and wellbeing

Dr David Batman, Group Chief Medical Officer, Nestlé UK and Ireland

10.40 - 10.50
Questions and Discussion with Speakers

10.50 - 11.30
Knowledge Share Networking Session

Split into roundtable groups to brainstorm and discuss with your peers:

  • Return on investment: Proving well-being's worth
  • Promoting understanding in senior management
  • Well notes: Working alongside GPs

11.30 - 11.50
Coffee, Exhibition and Networking

11.50 - 12.30
Choose Between either Stream 1 or Stream 2

STREAM 1
Well-Being and
Local Government

• Considering current challenges including local government reorganisation and sickness absence
• Tackling local government workforce issues including age and gender
• Interventions and good practice

Steve Sumner, National Health and Safety Policy Advisor, Local Government Employers

STREAM 2
Health & Well-Being within Unilever

• Unilever and well-being
• Exploring the Global project 'Lamplighter'
• Assessing the results

 

Dean Patterson, Health & Productivity Manager, Unilever

 

12.30 - 13.10
Choose Between either Stream 3 or Stream 4

STREAM 3
Overcoming the Hurdles: Making Small Businesses Healthy

• Exploring the appropriateness of health regulations on small businesses
• Considering the problems your organisation faces
• Tackling the issues
• The small business case for health initiatives in SMEs

Mary Boughton, Chair of Health, Safety & Risk Management Policy, Federation of Small Businesses

STREAM 4
The Well-Being Continuum

• Addressing an end to end well-being agenda
• Managing the rehabilitation process project 'Lamplighter'
• Proving its worth

Tricia O'Neil, Group Health Services Manager, Centrica

 

 

13.10 - 14.10
Lunch, Exhibition and Networking

14.10 - 14.35
Ensuring Organisation-Wide Buy-in from the Top Down

  • Engaging senior management
  • Creating employee buy-in
  • Exploring quantitative and qualitative measures of success
  • Maintaining employee interest

Jane Saunders, Head of Occupational Health, SELEX Galileo

14.35 - 15.00
Embedding Positive Health into Organisations

  • Designing and propagating behaviours to drive employee wellness
  • Considering the effects of data management
  • Assessing the impact health coaching has on well-being
  • Benefits for you as an employer

Paul Avis, Corporate Development Manager,
Ceridian

15.00 - 15.10
Questions and Discussion with Speakers

15.10 - 15.25
Coffee, Exhibition and Networking

15.25 - 15.50
Training Managers and Equipping Individuals with Tools and Techniques to Combat Stress

  • Examining "The Camel's Back"
  • Understanding the HSE guidelines
  • Raising awareness in managers, who are often the stressors
  • Considering potential tools and techniques

Dr Eileen Cahill-Canning, Chief Medical Officer, Metropolitan Police

15.50 - 16.20
Question Time

This is your chance to discuss and debate the nitty gritty issues and seek solutions in your well-being processes. Come prepared with questions to put to the panel to unearth tips and ideas on what they are doing in their own organisations. This is a great opportunity to talk through challenging issues in a structured environment.

Panel Members Include:

Dean Patterson, Health & Productivity Manager, Unilever

Dr Eileen Cahill-Canning, Chief Medical Officer, Metropolitan Police

Tricia O'Neil, Group Health Services Manager, Centrica

16.20
Close of Conference

 

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