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While 2020 was hard, 2021 is proving to have even more significant impacts on our workforces. Join us at this session as we dig into the issue and emerge with strategies to help you help those around you.
Connection – the antidote for workplace loneliness?
In this workshop, you'll join our amazing panel of specialists to deep dive into loneliness in the workplace. Together we will co-create a strategy to help you
Understand the impact that technology and distributed (virtual) workforces are having on our sense of connectedness and loneliness
Learn how to reduce the prevalence of loneliness in the workplace
Think about the strategies and programs workplaces should be considering
ADAM SMILEY POSWOLSKY is a millennial workplace expert, motivational speaker, and author of The Quarter-Life Breakthrough, The Breakthrough Speaker, and Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Smiley regularly speaks at Fortune 500 companies and has advised heads of state and foreign leaders about millennial talent, multigenerational engagement, and fostering belonging in the digital age. Smiley’s TED talk on “the quarter-life crisis” has been viewed over 1.5 million times, and he has spoken in front of fifty thousand people in twenty-five countries. Smiley’s work has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Fast Company, CNN, and the World Economic Forum, among many other outlets.Website: smileyposwolsky.com | Speaking: smileyposwolsky.com/speakingIG/Twitter: @whatsupsmiley | LinkedIn: Adam Smiley Poswolsky
Damon Klotz
Culture Amp
Damon Klotz has spent his career working at the intersection of people and technology. He’s held roles as an HR Consultant, Digital Strategist, and Co-Founded Spur Projects, a social enterprise focused on reducing the suicide rate of men in Australia. He joined Culture Amp as an early employee where he grew their community to one of the largest in the world and scaled the company during a time where the employees and customer base grew by over 2500%. As Culture Amp’s first Work Culture Evangelist he represents what’s possible within people and culture through storytelling, consulting, coaching, strategy execution, and thought leadership. As the host of The Culture First Podcast, Damon interviews people like Esther Perel, Claude Silver, Adam Grant & Simon Sinek to have conversations about why a better world of work can exist for the individual, team, leader & organization by focusing on workplace culture as the lever for change.
Prof. Jane Burns
The United Project Foundation
Professor Jane Burns, PhD Public Health and Epidemiology, GAICD, BA (Hons) Psychology. Jane brings a unique combination of research leadership senior executive experience. She leads large consortia and executive teams working at the nexus of research and development, industry and the social sector. Over her career she has attracted more than $200M of industry, government and philanthropic funds to drive new leadership in mental health reform with a major focus on new and emerging technologies. Jane is an international speaker on the topic of mental health; an experienced board director, and chair of the Federal Government’s National Advisory Council for Veterans Families’ Counselling. Jane was the CEO of the Young and Well CRC (2011 – 2017) https://www.linkedin.com/in/janemburns/
