Member Event
Embrace Webinar
Wednesday 1st March
Online
10am — 12pm
Welcome & Introduction and APSCo update
Sam Hurley, Operations Director, APSCo UK
Mental Health – Eliminating the stigma
Rhonda D’Ambrosio, Founder, Mental Health in Recruitment
Rhonda is a champion for workplace wellbeing and creator of self-help tool Titanic Thinking. She is also an advocate of flexible working/flexible working practices to reach diverse talent and improve mental health and adoption behaviours in the workplace to subsequently improve discretionary effort, people’s lives, and business. Rhonda will cover the following to help employers identify, manage and support employees with mental health issues.
- We all have mental health
- Social stigma and discrimination need to end
- Employer obligations for mental health in the workplace
- The choice to care costs nothing
- Happy people go above and beyond
Disability – Creating disability equity in the workplace
Jane Hatton, Founder and CEO, Evenbreak
Jane founded an exciting award-winning social enterprise called Evenbreak in 2011, run by and for disabled people, which helps inclusive employers attract and retain more talented disabled candidates. Why would you want to employ disabled people? Well, because they form a valuable pool of talent who are productive, loyal, bring additional skills and help you attract the £249 billion a year that disabled people and our families spend in the UK. During this session Jane will cover the following
- What barriers do disabled people face in the workplace?
- How can those barriers be reduced or removed?
- What are the benefits of removing disabling barriers and creating equity?
- Where do we start?
Age – Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for all ages and experience
Simon Long, Growth Director, 55/Redefined
55 Redefined are champions of anti-ageism, diversity, and inclusion across all areas and during this session Simon will focus on
- Over 50s : a hidden talent pool
- Age discrimination uncovered
- The unretirement uprising
- The business case for older workers
