Igniting A Culture Of Innovation - BPTW x Cultivating Innovation Masterclass

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Maximise your innovation efforts

In a world of constant change, the organisations thriving are those that innovate with purpose, agility and inclusion. Innovation isn’t just about new products or technology - it’s about how we work, lead, collaborate, and create the conditions for people to thrive and engage our people to create meaningful change.

Build a workplace culture where innovation thrives

At Best Places to Work™, we define innovation as a cultural capability rooted in leadership, psychological safety, inclusion, and purpose-driven thinking - where people are safe to experiment, where diverse and different thinking is celebrated, and new ideas are actively championed at every level. We believe a true culture of innovation also embraces failure as an essential part of learning, growth, and breakthrough success.

Join us for this one-day transformational masterclass designed for HR Managers and Directors, senior leaders, and business owners who want to build innovation into the DNA of their workplaces.

Why attend?

This masterclass blends strategy, science, and real-life case studies to help you:

• Work with transformation initiatives that have a sustainable impact
• Create a culture of experimentation and psychological safety
• Equip your leaders to champion new ideas and lead change
• Unlock diverse thinking and inclusive innovation
• Build structured systems (like innovation teams and idea forums) that turn creativity into action

What you’ll learn:

Align and engage your teams

• Identify the cultural drivers that support sustained innovation
• Learn how to create psychological safety that invites bold ideas
• Empower cross-functional collaboration and diverse thinking

Transformation to facilitate innovation at every level

• Activate innovation teams and idea systems
• Build regular feedback and ideation forums
• Make innovation part of everyday leadership and team rhythms

Navigate uncertainty with confidence

• Lead purpose-driven innovation through change
• Align EVP with innovation to boost engagement and retention

Explore BPTW™ best practices

• Discover how high-performing workplaces embed innovation in culture
• Apply real insights from BPTW™ survey data
• Gain tools to evaluate and grow your innovation capability

You’ll leave with:

• A strong foundation for an action plan to embed innovation in your workplace
• Leadership mindsets and tools for creating psychological safety and trust, and that drive innovation, adaptability, and personal growth
• Hands-on frameworks and experiments to test new approaches
• Connections with like-minded peers tackling similar challenges

What to expect:

Prepare for a day of high-energy learning, interactive sessions, and invaluable connections. We will explore how innovation strategies and mindsets work in real life, discussing both successes and setbacks. 

• This will be a varied, interactive, fun (and hopefully mind-blowing) day.
• You’ll leave empowered and ready to implement effective innovation strategies in your workplace.
• A light breakfast, lunch, and tea/coffee will be provided.

There will also be a 90-minute follow up online session a few weeks after the Masterclass to reconnect the group, share insights, ideas, and outcomes of the practical tasks provided.

Learn from the best!

The day will be facilitated by Melissa Clark-Reynolds, ONZM - certified Futurist and innovation specialist, and Leanne Holdsworth - author of two business books: Human Work, and A New Generation of Business Leaders.

You will also hear real-life innovation experiences - the good, bad and the inspired from some of the 2024 BPTW™ Awards finalists and winners.

Facilitators & Speakers

Melissa Clark-Reynolds Melissa delights in working with organisations that want to make an impact at scale. She loves to work with teams facing uncertain futures in complex times. As a futurist she knows that there “are no future facts” and believes we should design our organisations to thrive under multiple scenarios. As a keen strategist, Melissa likes to help organisations determine their “theory of change” or “theory of how to win” and to design experiments that advance the cause. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of Wētā Workshop, Atkins Ranch, Alpine Energy Network, and Daffodil Enterprises Ltd, and has extensive experience as Chair and Director of founder driven, family and community owned enterprises as well as a member of numerous government advisory panels.

Leanne Holdsworth Leanne stands for a future where it is normal for work environments to be places where human beings thrive, enabling organisations to succeed whilst at the same time, building social capital through how those humans are able to show up with their families and communities. She is the co-author of Human Work: Five Leadership Mindsets for Humanising workplaces and author of the book A New Generation of Business Leaders and has spent 15 years advising organisations predominantly in the private sector (across most sectors including banking, primary sector, FMCG, tech, pharmaceuticals) as well as the public and not for profit sectors in sustainability strategy and leadership.

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