Agenda

Panel discussion: Designing whole person care at scale: what the system must support

Mainstream healthcare increasingly aspires to whole person care, yet delivery is constrained by how systems are designed to operate. Clinical pathways, incentives, workforce models, and policy frameworks shape what is feasible in practice. This session examines the structural conditions that enable or inhibit integrated, relational, and preventative care, focusing on operating models, capacity, and system alignment rather than individual effort.

• How operating models and incentives shape care behaviour
• The impact of workforce capacity, fragmentation, and moral injury on delivery
• What system-level design changes make whole person care workable at scale

Featuring:

• Royal Society for Public Health Chief Executive, William Roberts
• University of Oxford Professor of Psychiatry, Prof. Kam Bhui
• NHS England National Clinical Expert in Occupational Health & Wellbeing, Dr. Shriti Pattani OBE

Keynote presentation: Why benefits strategies are failing employers and employees alike in driving effective outcomes

Even with the advent of various technologies and wellbeing coming to the fore as a workplace phenomenon, for most employers, the approach to workplace health hasn’t materially changed in 30 years. Decisions are still based upon incomplete understandings of cost and value and over-indexed to antiquated criteria, such as reward, not outcomes.

In this session, Howden will be taking the findings from its latest Benefits Design research and Global Health Trends report to give you:

• A clear blueprint for a strategic approach to managing benefits, including the right metrics, tools, data and cadence;
• The signals that are coming from both UK and Global health trends as to what’s working and what’s not
• A new way to think about the relationship between reward, benefits and wellbeing and your likely next steps

Featuring:

• Howden Employee Benefits Executive Director, Matthew Gregson

Panel discussion: Designing employer health systems that work: moving beyond programmes and perks

Most employer wellbeing efforts fail not because people resist them, but because organisational systems are not designed to support health in practice. Incentives, consent models, job design, performance pressure, and risk management frameworks quietly shape what is possible long before any programme is launched. This session examines how large organisations are redesigning employer health from a system perspective - treating workforce health as a core operational and risk issue rather than a cultural add-on.

• How governance, consent, and accountability shape real health outcomes
• Where occupational health is constrained by legal, commercial, and capacity limits
• What changes when health is treated as operational infrastructure, not engagement
• How large employers reconcile evidence, ethics, and scalability

Featuring:

• Haleon EMEA Occupational Health Lead, Dr. Clare Fernandes
• Google Clinical Lead for Occupational Health - EMEA, Dr. Paul McGovern

Coffee, networking, and exhibition

Panel discussion: Sustainable high performance - building workforce capacity without burnout

High performance has become a corporate requirement, but most organisations are running on depletion. This session examines what it takes to create durable capacity at scale - through job design, load management, recovery, leadership norms, and measurement - treating performance as an operating model and risk issue, not a motivation problem.

• Reduce workforce risk and cost by designing capacity into how work runs, lowering absence, claims pressure, and attrition.
• Stabilise performance at scale by cutting fatigue-driven errors, rework, and output volatility through practical load and recovery controls.
• Give leaders a usable operating model with clear levers, governance, and metrics that sustain output without burnout or reputational exposure.

Keynote presentation

Partner slot available

Lunch

Presentation: Alcohol explained - why the drink we normalised is undermining sleep, mood, and performance

William Porter, author of Alcohol Explained, brings a clear-eyed account of what alcohol actually does to the body and mind. This session cuts through the myths that it relieves stress, improves sleep, or enhances confidence, and examines how alcohol instead drives anxiety, fatigue, dependency, and reduced performance. This is a timely challenge to one of the most normalised but least honestly examined forces shaping modern wellbeing.

• Alcohol Explained Author, William Porter

Panel discussion: Profit or people? Reimagining business in an age of extraction, burnout and cultural decay

Many modern organisations operate within economic systems that reward extraction - of labour, attention, time, data, and natural resources. These dynamics have contributed to rising burnout, eroding trust, fragmented communities, and a growing sense that work and culture are misaligned with human limits. 

This session examines how extractive logics are embedded in organisational design, incentive structures, and policy environments - often unintentionally. It explores the tensions leaders face when attempting to operate differently, and the structural constraints that make change difficult. Rather than promoting idealised alternatives, the discussion focuses on real-world attempts to move beyond extraction, including where they succeed, where they fail, and why scale remains challenging.

• How extractive economic models shape work, health, and organisational culture
• The structural incentives that lock organisations into short-termism and depletion
• Evidence from regenerative, slow-growth, and human-first business experiments

Featuring:

• Breitling Chief Sustainability Officer, Aurelia Figueroa
• COOK Co-Chair, James Perry
• Global Society for Good Leadership Co-Founder, Otti Vogt

Presentation: Recovery-ready leadership: reducing risk, cutting hidden costs, and strengthening wellbeing

Addiction is often misunderstood, reduced to “willpower” or treated as a private issue. In reality, it is a chronic health condition that affects the brain, behaviour and, crucially, the workplace. Dr Georges Petitjean will unpack the evidence, highlight how substance use and addiction show up at work, and explain the scale of the issue in today’s workforce. This session clarifies how silence around addiction creates risk and cost, and why the issue increasingly sits at the level of organisational governance.

• Workplace Addiction & Recovery Movement Founder, Dr. Georges Petitjean

Panel discussion: Addiction as organisational risk: from stigma to system response
 

Too often, addiction is treated as a private failing rather than an organisational challenge. This panel explores how senior leaders and system owners can tackle addiction head-on, using evidence-based strategies to replace stigma with support.

• Examine how addiction rewires the brain and why “willpower” narratives fail at organisational level
• Explore the organisational conditions that determine whether issues are surfaced or remain hidden
• Clarify the governance, duty-of-care, and risk levers that shape organisational response

Featuring:

• Society of Occupational Medicine President and King’s College London Professor of Defence Mental Health, Neil Greenberg
• Moderator: Workplace Addiction & Recovery Movement Founder, Dr. Georges Petitjean

Closing remarks and networking coffee