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John Seddon is an occupational psychologist, researcher, professor, management thinker and global authority on change, specialising in the service industry. He is the managing director of Vanguard, a consultancy company he formed in 1985.
Ulrich Gammelgaard is Head of Global Financial Management at Velux, a roof window and skylight manufacturer, and one of the strongest brands in the building industry. Ulrich has played a major role in the transformation of the Velux planning model which has improved transparency and the company’s ability to act on demand changes globally.
At Christian Aid, the culture has been very much focused on 'command and control', but Libby and Esther have been working together to change that. Their goal is to move more decisions to front-line staff and the point of impact for the charity's important work, and give their people more ownership over their roles. Find out more in Libby and Esther's talk from the 2016 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Dom Monkhouse spoke at the 2015 Happy Workplaces Conference about Rackspace. He has worked to create a culture of happy staff, resulting in happy customers and more profit. In this video, he explains how they have done it and shares some easy to implement practices that you can use in your workplace.
Henry Stewart of Happy spoke at the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference about creating a happy workplace and why it's important.
It takes more than just fancy job titles, fruit baskets in the office and payrises to create a happy and engaged workplace. If you want to make people feel good at work, you need to focus on results and relationships, says Alex Kjerulf. In this talk from the 2013 Happy Workplaces Conference, Alex explains how you can do this and create a sense of pride in your workplace.
Innocent are a very unique brand with a very unique culture. In this video from the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference, Tansy and Tim explain what it's like and why they love working there.
Helena Moore looks at the approach Bromford take to their staff and customers to create a happy workplace, such as running small scale pilots to test new ideas. Find out more in this talk from the 2015 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Nicky Stone from Happy talked about how to implement The Happy Manifesto and create a happy workplace at 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Brendan O’Keefe at Happy Workplaces 2015