8.30am: Registration

9.00am: Welcome and introduction

9.10am: Keynote: ‘Chasing Nirvana – Creating Awesome, Engaged and Resilient Working Cultures’ - James McCulloch, Inspire Group

• How organisations can build empowered teams
• Using compassion, respect and diversity to make it a great place to work
• Embedding practices that strengthen a positive culture
• Nurturing the radicals and non-conformists

9.50am: Keynote: ‘Transformation, Resilience and Survival’ - Wayne Neal, Business Energetics

• Why organisations need to think differently about career lifecycles and their structure / culture to secure the long-term survival. 
• AI and the future.
• How can we support fresh thinking about vitality, skills, social networks and personal transformation to meet changing workplace needs?
• Keys to driving the success of wellbeing strategies and support transformation.
• The science of stress and its impact on human performance from the fields of neurophysiology, psychology and exercise physiology.

10.30am: Networking and morning tea

11.00am: Case Study: Farmstrong – How is this building the rural workplaces resilience? - Shaun Robinson, Mental Health Foundation

• Lessons for promoting workplace wellbeing

11.40am: Presentation and round-table discussions: Integrating a pro-active approach to mental health: creating processes to identify those at risk - Aaron McIntosh, Mcintosh & Co

• Building a mental health and wellbeing strategy
• What resources support the strategy
• What training should leaders have to identify and support colleagues
• Educating your team about mental health initiatives that they can take.

12.20pm Lunch & Networking

1.00pm Keynote: ‘Terrorists Within – How workplace bullying is impacting your teams' performance and impacting your teams' lives’ - Suzanne Henwood, mBraining4Success and The Healthy Workplace

• Is bullying happening in NZ workplaces?
• What are the warning signs? Why is it happening?
• How does this relate to Psychological Safety at work?
• How well are we handling it when it does occur?
• Exploring strategies and action steps that communicate a healthier culture in to the future.

1.40pm Team Exercise: Super-heroes and Kryptonite – unleashing neuro diversity in our workplaces - Aaron Hodder, Assurity

• How do we create workplaces that value and capitalise neuro diversity?
• Building understanding of the differences within people
• Creating a team of super-heroes

2.20pm Panel Discussion: Overcoming Derision – A Plan of Action
Panel: Wayne Neal, Aaron McIntosh, Suzanne Henwood, Aaron Hodder

• What does it take to build and maintain employee confidence to share how they are doing?
• How do we do it differently?
• Promoting empathy and kindness organisation-wise without giving away all control.
• Developing a culture that listens and seeks to understand.

 3.00pm Closing Remarks