Culture Rules - how to make startup staff stick

The great resignation is touted to be impacting Australian businesses very soon,  as it has in the US and Europe. It is predicted that 40% of the workforce are thinking of leaving their current employment!  So we’ve invited HR leaders and culture specialists  to share insights about this changing work culture and our forever changed workforce.  The way of work has altered forever as we embrace the move from work life balance to work life integration. It is therefore crucial to understand the potential of current workforce teams to create employee engagement and sustainable growth.

For Leaders:

• How to create increased engagement, productivity and performance in a workforce;
• Ensure working parents and caregivers are consistently and comprehensively supported;
• Understand platforms that create personalised journeys, dynamic workflows, and digital content.

For Job Seekers:

• Learn to openly share your strengths to connect, collaborate, learn and innovate;
• Understand capability mapping;
• Learn about platforms that support a personalised journey
• Meaningful mentoring

You will hear from culture experts who are setting new standards and combating the war on talent with unique and engaging strategies.

Paul Rush, Co-Founder, Humanico

Paul has spent more than 25 years assessing people, gaining a deep understanding of human capability and behaviour specifically in relation to work. With significant change in operating models, organisational design and the very fabric of the workplace Paul wanted to leverage his deep knowledge to design and develop an innovative solution to the evolving quandary. As Co-Founder of Humanico, Paul has helped ideate, design and build a disruptive HR Tech platform to enable companies to truly understand their people landscape through a digital interactive Human Map, one that allows them to maximise the true potential of their greatest asset - their people.

Gareth Flynn, Founder & Managing Director, TQ

Gareth is the founder and Managing Director of TQSolutions, a specialist advisory, solutions and services business operating across the 'Talent vertical' from attraction through to hiring and onboarding and then career development and mobility. 
Gareth is also the Co-founder and Director of The Career Conversation, a start up venture focused on the development of 'human skills' through the design and deployment of micro-learning interventions and experiences. 
Gareth is a Board Director for U-Paged, a start up technology marketplace platform for on-demand health professionals. 
He is widely regarded as a global expert in Talent Attraction, Engagement and Mobility strategies and brings deep consulting expertise across Strategy, Operating Model Design and Technology Enablement. 
Gareth has led major projects for some of Australia's largest businesses including AFL, ANZ, APM, Australia Post, Australian Unity, BHP, Bupa, CBA, Coles, Deloitte, GE, IFM Investors, Macquarie, Nearmap, Orica, PwC, Rabobank, Reece, SEEK, Serco, Spotless, Tabcorp, Toll, Treasury Wine Estates, Westpac. 

Alana Shepherd, Executive Manager – People Agility, REA Group

With more than 18 years’ experience in HR, Alana is passionate about realising enterprise value and growth by creating an exceptional work experience products enabled by agile and innovative practices.
Prior to REA, Alana worked in senior HR and Change Management roles across multiple industries in Australia, Japan, Singapore, London and Papua New Guinea. Alana holds a Bachelor of Business &Psychology from Newcastle University and a Masters in Change Management from UNSW Graduate
School of Business.
Alana leads the newly formed People Agility team at REA Group (who most of us know via their digital property experiences - realestate.com.au and realcommercial.com.au). The People Agility team at REA
are on a mission to enable the business thrive on change as they build their next generation organisation.
Prior to this, Alana spent several years partnering across REA’s Product, Design & Technology communities on their strategic people, leadership, culture and change agendas.

Jennifer Tod, People & Culture, Littlepay

Jennifer Tod, Head of People & Culture at Littlepay, has enjoyed a journey from educational leadership to Head of P&C roles in a range of sectors. Curiosity about people, purpose and culture is the thread that runs through her career, and she’s delighted to bring these interests to Littlepay, to help shape the organization as it steers a path from startup to scaleup. In this time of rapid growth for the business, Jen’s responsible for attracting the best possible candidates to shape the future of Littlepay and help it fulfil its ambitious roadmap. Joining the company mid-pandemic, she’s also been instrumental in the transition, in both the Melbourne and UK offices, from a largely office-based culture to a more hybrid approach. She is relishing the opportunity to define new ways of working together that connect teams and allow Littlepay’s values to flourish. She has been fascinated by the shift in perspective among job seekers about what they are looking for in an employee culture - and today that’s more about support, development and team spirit than high-tech offices. She’s committed to ensuring Littlepay is perceptive about what employees find important or useful in their lives.

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