Coping with uncertainty and change: vital resilience skills every organisation needs.

Following on from our sell-out event in Christchurch, we are excited to announce our next Resilience Masterclass will be held on 28th July in Auckland.

Join Dr Lucy Hone and Dr Denise Quinlan to learn the six things leaders need to know to build a resilient team in 2021.

PROGRAMME:

9.00	Welcome
9.15	Sustainable high performance: Staying strong and connected through challenging times. *Dr Lucy Hone, Dr Denise Quinlan, Kim Tay, New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience*.
10.45	Morning Tea
11.15	Case Study 1: Implementing wellbeing at work. *Chloe Stewart-Tyson & Kristy Matthews* share insights on *Beca’s* wellbeing work (Presentation followed by Q&A)
11.45	Building Psychological Safety & Avoiding Burnout through Resilient teams. Paula Davis, *Stress & Resilience Institute, USA.*
12.45	Lunch
1.30	Case Study 2: The Griffin's Wellbeing Journey. *Deanne Schoeman, The Griffin's Food Company* (Presentation followed by Q&A)
2.00	Job crafting for resilience: transforming work in just 15 minutes a day. *Dr Denise Quinlan & Kim Tay, New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience.*
2.30	Why the Employee Experience matters for good times and bad. *Mary Kennett, Kennett Consulting* (Presentation followed by Q&A)
3.00	Afternoon Tea
3.20	Turning Insight into action: Planning your next steps *Dr Lucy Hone & Dr Denise Quinlan,* *New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience*.
3.50	Close
4.00	Ends

Organisations that harness basic human motivation, and promote psychological safety, achieve both increased resilience and sustainable higher performance.

“An incredibly practical course and I have come away with a lot of useful ideas.”

“A wonderful event that utilised a range of different lens and perspectives to create a fuller picture of resilience. The topics discussed were easy to understand and we immediately thought of ways to implement them.”

[Christchurch Resilience Masterclass participants]

Don’t be a dinosaur when it comes to promoting resilience in your workforce – watch this video of Denise and Lucy describing common burnout myths.

Introducing Dr Lucy Hone

Dr Lucy Hone had long been on a mission to translate the best of resilience psychology to help people cope with challenge and change, when personal tragedy transformed her understanding of resilience from the academic to the personal in 2014. Her book, Resilient Grieving, and her TED talk, 3 Secrets of Resilient People (among the Top 20 TED talks of 2020), has fuelled demand for her Keynote presentations globally. Originally from London, trained by the thought leaders in the field at the University of Pennsylvania, and now at the University of Canterbury, her research is published internationally and her PhD acknowledged for its outstanding contribution to wellbeing science. She is co-author of the Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing, co-convenor of Wellbeing in Education NZ, presenter on many of NZIWR’s online courses and has featured in the Guardian, the Washington Post, the BBC and ABC, Channel News Asia, Swedish Television, The Bolt Report Australia and TVNZ.

Introducing Dr Denise Quinlan

Dr Denise Quinlan is acknowledged internationally as an outstanding facilitator and speaker who will expand and challenge your understanding of wellbeing and strengths psychology. Her diverse experience means she is equally at home with senior leaders, students, factory workers, or marginalised groups. Originally an equity analyst on the London Stock Exchange, and management consultant with Deloitte and KPMG in the UK and NZ, her career has spanned guest lecturing on the Executive Masters in Positive Leadership & Strategy at IE University Madrid and working alongside Prof Martin Seligman and Dr Karen Reivich delivering the Penn Resilience Program in Australia and the UK. Author of the Educators’ Guide to Whole-school Wellbeing, Denise has worked with schools from around the world to support wellbeing. A regular presenter at national and international wellbeing conferences, her research is published in international academic journals and several edited volumes. Her Podcast, Bringing Wellbeing to Life, explores wellbeing topics with leading researchers and practitioners from around the world.