2024 Happy Workplaces Conference
This year's conference was Happy's first hybrid event, hosted in the classroom at Happy's HQ in London and online via Zoom. It was held on 15th May.
We hosted 50 people at Happy as well as another 100 attendees online. While there were some teething problems at the start with sound and the online set up, this combination was a huge success.
We had a fantastic line up as always, with speakers including Isaac Getz, Michele Zanini, Caron Bradshaw OBE and Michelle Hill.
Videos are being added weekly to the site, below you can see the videos that have been added so far.
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Below are some of the highlights from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference. More videos are being added to the site each week.
Femi Otitoju: How Agile Leadership Can Get The Most From Your People
Daniel Dzikowski: Why You Should Learn With Happy
Daniel is a champion of Happy’s leadership and management programmes, as he explained during this talk at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference. Daniel learned of Happy two decades ago, when he had set out to start his own business and wanted to undertake some learning to ensure that he would have the skills and knowledge to make it a success.
Caron Bradshaw: Why You Should Try Leading With Love
Caron has a wide array of experience across charity, regulation/law, policy, member support, and professional ethics and has been awarded with an OBE. In this video from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Caron explains her management philosophy of "leading with love".
Nigel Paine: Why a Positive Culture is the Key Ingredient of Success
Every successful organisation proudly boasts of how great their culture is and how that has enabled them to succeed. But creating a happy workplace can’t be forced, and getting rid of a bad culture can be a very challenging undertaking. In this video from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Nigel Paine explains the hallmarks of a happy workplace and how you can emulate this in your organisation.
Michele Zanini: How Too Much Bureaucracy Stifles Innovation
We all hate tedious paperwork. Filling out transport claim documents, internal KPI tracking documentation, expenses claims… All these things can utterly drain your soul, but we do it because we must, because it’s important. But is it? Well, Michele Zanini would say no, or at the very least, not always, in this talk from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Emma Halahan: How You Could Benefit From a Leadership Apprenticeship with Happy
Happy has run leadership apprenticeship programmes for several years now at Level 3, Level 5 and Level 7. Emma is an alumni of Happy’s Level 5 Apprenticeship Programme for Experienced Managers which she found invaluable. Emma talked about her experience with the programme and how it’s affected how she works at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Next Conference: 2025 Happy Workplaces Conference
Our Happy Workplaces Conference is our biggest event of the year, and we'd love for you to join us on Thursday 12th June!
This year's event will be held in London, venue TBC. We may also offer a hybrid option for people to join us online simultaneously — do let us know if you are interested in joining online and we can add you to the waiting list.
As always, our next conference will be filled with interaction, discussion and space for reflection.
Book now and get our special half-price Early Bird rate — just use discount code Happy2025.
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