About the Event
Conscious Culture hosted this gathering to explore the ways companies can redesign critical work structures of time and space and why these changes are part of the larger commitment to making work better for everyone. You’ll hear business leaders, researchers, and practitioners share stories that will inspire and frameworks your team needs to make work better. We hit all the key trending topics of company culture, four-day workweeks, hybrid / remote / back to office motions, and employee awakenings and resignations. We believe you’ll be inspired, gain new perspectives, and learn new leadership skills through these recordings.
Program Schedule
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Why do this culture thing?
What kind of investment do you need to make in company culture and is it worth it? Learn why companies make the commitment to make work culture a priority and how it pays off.
Moderator:
Heatherly Bucher, Executive Director, Conscious Culture
Panelists:
Jennifer Christie, Chief People Officer, Bolt
Erica Plybeah, Founder, Medhaul
Sukhendra Rompally, CEO, Chezuba
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Starting culture work: borrowing a technology approach
Whether your company is young with a blank slate or established with much history, you need a plan for how to start your culture work. Come explore how applying best practices from the technology implementation discipline can help your teams be more successful in culture work.
Heatherly Bucher, Executive Director, Conscious Culture
Jamie Inghram, Strategic Solutions Engineer, Bolt
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Out of time: rethinking the work day
Work will fill the space you give to it. But more hours does not mean better work. Join business leaders for a discussion of how their companies are challenging the concept of “more is better.” From four-day workweeks to focused time and no meeting days, these companies are rethinking the work day.
Moderator:
Phil McParlane, Founder, 4dayweek.io
Panelists:
Nikki Coleman, COO, We Are Rosie
Gabe Greenberg, Founder, G2i
Diego Sternberg, Founder, Nexton
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Creating space for empathy in the workplace
Empathy is the hot topic and in demand skill for leaders and managers at organizations in 2022. But how do you do this? How does empathy fit into a workspace where functional rational thinking has been valued over EQ skills for generations? This interactive workshop will clarify the role of empathy at work and in leadership and provide practical tips, tricks and examples.
Rob Volpe, CEO, Ignite 360 and author of Tell Me More About That
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Designing time to make work less hectic and more fulfilling
We can design time, just as we design products and spaces. Some of history’s most noted scientists and creatives spent years tinkering with their working hours and routines, and discovered counterintuitive but science-based practices that helped them have more insights and better lives. Today, companies around the world are redesigning their workweeks, creating more quality time, and helping people do more meaningful work. In this session, cosponsored by 4 Day Week Global, we’ll talk about why individuals and companies should redesign their routines and working hours; how people and organizations can do it; and how it can help us all create a better future for work.
Dr. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author, founder, speaker, and Global Programs and Development Manager, 4DayWeek
Joe O’Connor, CEO, 4DayWeekGlobal
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Places and spaces: where does work happen
The four walls defining where much work happens have fallen. Join in on this conversation about where work happens–office, hybrid, remote-first, anywhere–and leaders who think it’s not only inevitable but could be the best thing that has happened to strengthen company cultures and make work truly better for everyone.
Moderator:
Sharon Reddehase Naturally Network
Panelists:
Lona Alia, Head of Revenue, SafetyWing
Melissa Donelly, VP Executive Sales, Bolt
Sean Conner, Co-Founder and Chief Progress Officer, Force Brands
Justin Mitchell, CEO, YAC
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Getting unstuck: how to make work work beyond place and time
Join a panel of leaders and practitioners as they have a lively discussion on the behaviors, structures, and group processes that you’ll need to move beyond the forced constructs of the past two years to an empowering new future of work.
Moderator:
Dr. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author, founder, speaker, and Global Programs and Development Manger, 4DayWeek
Panelists:
Steve Chalgren, VP and GM Specification Program, Bluetooth
Vita Kwan, Brand Partnerships Manager, Girlboss
Iwo Szapar, CEO, Remote-How
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Making a difference with active listening
As individuals start to consider the future of work, active listening skills will be essential in helping individuals feel heard, validated, and connected to one another. Listening is one of our most challenging activities and an art form that requires considerable practice throughout one’s life. This workshop focuses on active listening with concrete definitions of terms and strategies that can be used in everyday life.
Dr. Elyse Dub, founder, Insight Onsite and licensed psychologist
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Redesigning for Balance and Energy
Redesigning work can be enhanced with a greater sense of who we are and what’s important to us. Issues like work/life balance and how our energy changes throughout the day can become design parameters that we can assess and work with. Join this session to collaborate with others, consider a reframe for balance, learn design strategies to make changes for more energy and balance, and explore how those changes can positively impact your organization’s culture.
Michael Cato, Certified Designing Your Life Facilitator & Inclusive Leader, IT Executive
Heather Shaughnessy-Cato Certified Designing Your Life Facilitator and Coach & Owner, Fieldbrook Advising
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This could have been an email: what leads to nightmarish meetings and what you can do to avoid them
My name is Tim Hickle, and I hate meetings. Well, let me rephrase. I hate ineffective meetings. The problem is, so many of them are so gosh-darn ineffective that it’s hard not to hate them all. So, I did the most natural thing to do when you hate something… I learned everything about it. I read books, listened to podcasts, watched webinars, and tested as many methodologies as possible to figure out why so many meetings suck and why we just can’t seem to break the spell. In this session, we will talk about what I’ve learned and what you can do to implement these lessons in your organization. We will: Discuss meetings… What are they and why do we do them? Define an effective meeting
Tim Hickle, Director of Marketing, Greenlight Guru
