Inspire Summit

POOR MENTAL HEALTH IS A MAJOR BUSINESS RISK

We kick off the Inspire Summit with Marie Fraser interviewing Peter Abrahamsen of Better Lives poor mental health and how its a major risk to business in this session we look at the following elements.

• The effects of poor mental health on the person and the bottom line
• Attitudes among employers to mental health and wellbeing
• Compassion and empathy, what is it  and what is it not (employees want compassion from their bosses, but the bosses think it makes them weak)
• Treat employees as humans, not like a commodity or a cost centre – and why this is not happening
• Employee engagement and what to do with it

HOW TO OVERCOME PERSONAL LIMITATIONS IN DIFFICULT AND CHANGING TIMES – SHARAN SAMMI

Are you truly happy doing what you are doing right now in all areas of your life?

The World has changed and so have we! By understanding what personal limitations have been holding you back then learning and implementing techniques to change, this will dramatically influence you to start manifesting and living a truly Abundant and Fulfilling Life by Design where Anything is Possible!

• Happiness is an inside job, how happy are you right now in all areas of your life?
• Change is the only constant and by changing your thoughts, you can change your life!
• Abundance is your birth-right, so let’s go ALL IN to start building your Abundant Legacy & manifest your dream life by design!

WHEN ALCOHOL IMPACTS YOUR WORK AND LIFE – GILL MCKAY 

Many executives have developed a pattern of high functioning drinking and are able to go through life successfully as high achievers, with a career that pays well, home, family, friendships, and happy social bonds – yet they are shattered and overwhelmed. This presentation shines a light on how to listen to any suspicions that you are overdoing the booze and how to experience a stint of sobriety and move to a life you don’t want to escape from.

In this session you will learn about:

• The creep of alcohol use
• Impact on work and life
• Practical courses of action

SOCIAL MEDIA ISN’T JUST ABOUT POSTING PRETTY PICTURES ADHOC AND WILLY-NILLY – HELEN MANCHIP 

Helen will walk through the importance of creating a social media strategy, she will give you some great advice and tips to get your socials seen amongst the crowd. As well as covering the options and features of the different social platforms to help you decide which is best for you and your business as they are forever evolving. 

• Create a social strategy for your business
• Get your socials seen by your ideal audience
• Create compelling and engaging content

ELEVATE YOUR CAREER SUCCESS WITH NUMEROLOGY – JO SOLEY 

Numerology has transformed Jo’s life and business to such a degree that her services are now related to connecting her clients to the energies of the numbers that they are working within their life and business to help elevate their success.

In this session, Jo will connect you to the energies of the numbers by …

• Showing you how the energies of the numbers affect us on a daily basis
• Share what numerology is and isn’t and what the modality she has created Bizology is and how to use it
• And will show you how to calculate your life path number, what this means and how to harness this energy in your career, business and life.

HOW TO UNDERSTAND AND NURTURE YOUR ENERGISING STRENGTHS FOR SUCCESS – CAROLE ELAM

Why focus on strengths?  Our strengths are the qualities that energise us and enable us to perform at our best.

By getting the balance right between developing your strengths and reducing performance risks, you will achieve higher levels of: resilience, confidence, engagement, and success.

People who know and use their strengths effectively experience benefits such as:

• Higher level of motivation
• Higher levels of job satisfaction
• Improved relationships at work

HOW ADDRESSING YOUR HEALTH ISSUES AT THE ROOT CAUSE CAN HELP YOUR CAREER, BUSINESS AND RELATIONSHIPS FLOURISH! – SADHNA CHAMAN

Sadhna will be sharing her approach to addressing the mental, emotional and physical aspects of a person at the root cause, as these are pivotal to ultimate happiness and fulfillment. She will demonstrate how you can release, reclaim and reinvent your health and life naturally to cut through the pressures and challenges that modern-day living presents.

Sadhna will show you how you have the power to address the root cause of your health challenges so that you

• Develop greater resilience to cope with the highs and lows of life
• Thrive by enjoying a more meaningful mental and emotional connection with yourself and others by letting go of what you cannot control and focusing on what you can
• Create greater respite from the continual pressure and busy-ness of life in a guilt-free way

PERFORM LIKE THE OLYMPIAN YOU ARE – REACH YOUR FULL POTENTIAL ON A DAILY BASIS – ALEX BROWN 

We are all Olympic athletes.  No, we may not run faster, jump higher or lift stronger than a traditional athlete, but we juggle faster, stress harder, travel longer, and deliver more than most – or than we have ever had to before – and we have never struggled more.  But can a few simple dietary changes make a difference to how you perform on a daily basis? 

• How to turn your alarm from the snooze button to the starting pistol.
• Get through the working day like a gold medalist.
• Learn how to increase your daily performance to cope with the school run, the commute, a full day’s work, family and still have fuel to spare.

HARNESS THE POWER OF LINKEDIN – DEBBIE GILBERT 

LinkedIn is an amazing resource. Knowing how to leverage the power of LinkedIn is valuable for any professional. This presentation will share some insights, tips and some case studies, clearly demonstrating the opportunities that can be created. When you know to utilise this platform effectively the possibilities are endless! 

• Top tips to get your profile noticed
• How to effectively use the search facility
• The importance of growing your network and contributing on LinkedIn

LEADERSHIP THE NEW ERA – KEELY WOOLLEY ​

How Inspiring leaders of organisations to rediscover their why, helps create a sustainable culture and a holistic unified approach to empower their people to strive for excellence.

• Clarity of purpose – Your why, what and how are all in balance to achieve strategic alignment,  across the organisation
• Empowered, Motivated, Creative & Inspired Teams and Sense of Ownership – Striving for excellence
• Mentally and physically healthier, results in increased performance & employee retention

BEING VISIBLE TO ENHANCE YOUR CAREER – CAROLE BOZKURT 

It’s all too easy to slip into the background and for your hard work and efforts to go unnoticed world. And what makes it even more challenging is the rise of the home worker.

In this session we will explore the ways in which you can raise and maintain your visibility, and how you can start to build your personal brand so that you get noticed not just by your colleagues in the office but also by your peers in the industry so that when that next exciting job role arises your name is at the top of the list. 

INCREASE YOUR PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND INFLUENCE TO THRIVE AND LEAD – PATIENCE OGUNBONA 

High achieving women get stuck without progression because of imposter syndrome, disqualifying themselves from the race to the top due to feeling inadequate. It can feel like you are up against it with no way of achieving your full potential and work satisfaction.

You close the gap between where you are and where you want to be by increasing your personal effectiveness and influence to position yourself as an authority, gain promotion and progression. In business, increasing your personal effectiveness, helps you build authority in your marketplace to lead others to transformation: 

In this presentation you will learn: 

• Why you are not achieving desired progression
• Insights to achieve Personal Effectiveness and Influence
• How Leadership Development empowers you to thrive

TAKING CONTROL IN AN UNCONTROLLABLE WORLD: HOW TO FLOURISH THROUGH UNCERTAINTY – LAURA TOOP

The world, as we knew it, no longer exists. We believed we would get to the ‘other side’ of the pandemic, and life would return to ‘normal’, but this isn’t the case. ‘Normal’, is now continued uncertainty as we navigate a world we don’t recognize, have no map for, and little control over.

How can we continue to flourish through uncertainty?

In this session you will learn:

• A simple process to create clarity amidst the uncertainty
• How to find focus and take control of your own current situation
• Why momentum is key and how you can maintain it

HOW YOUR PERSONAL BOUNDARIES CAN ENHANCE YOUR CAREER – MARIE FRASER 

The importance of healthy personal boundaries in a professional environment and how having them will successfully enhance your career progression. 

• Your boundaries are as unique as you are. How do you decide what your boundaries are?
• People are not mind-readers, so how do you communicate your boundaries?
• A ditherer or people-pleaser will never make it to the top. Successfully managing a team demands respected leadership.  How do your boundaries ensure that?

POINT TO THE STRESS WITHIN – RAINA KALHAN 

In this presentation, Raina will give you a deeper understanding of the workings of stress and the hold it has on your life, and what you can do to release it.

We will specifically look at the following:

• What causes stress within us
• The Sub-conscious programmes we run that create stress
• Breaking the cycle of stress

REDUCE STRESS AND INCREASE WELLNESS WITH SIMPLE MIND MANAGEMENT METHODS – KAREN PUTTICK 

Mindset management – applying mindfulness, meditation, hypnotic techniques, and the science of happiness can be integral to a successful business.

Karen will share proven techniques which can easily be incorporated into your team’s daily routine – whether in the office or working from home.

• Create a happier, healthier team
• Positively impact your bottom line
• Improve staff engagement and retention

FOR A DIFFERENT OUTCOME, THE LEADERSHIP STYLE MUST CHANGE

In this session Laura Toop interview Thom Dennis.

‘We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them’ Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying.

Now, more than ever before in our lifetimes, we need to re-think the leadership of the future, because the leadership which got us to this point, will not be the one which gets us out.

Join Thom Dennis and Laura Toop as they explore…

• Why the leadership style of the past, is not the one for the future
• The 3 pillars necessary for the future of leadership and a healthy organizational culture
• How it’s both men AND women that need to tap into their ‘feminine’ traits, and what do we really mean by this?
• What action could look and feel like, drawing upon the experiences of those already adopting leadership styles which embrace the 3 pillars?

CREATING DEEPER RELATIONSHIPS TO HELP YOUR BUSINESS THRIVE – ANNE HELLGREN

The better and stronger relationships you build with your clients, employers, stakeholders and suppliers, the more likely you’ll have a thriving business.  No matter the size of your company,  you need to master the art of having great relationships with all those involved in it.

In this talk you will learn:

• How to improve your communication styles to fit the audience and need accordingly
• How to build authentic connections so you don’t feel like you’re having to play a role that is not you.
• How to improve your influence and impact to so have better results in your business growth

ARE YOU TAKING CHARGE OF CHANGE

In this session, Carole Elam interviews Tim Ellis on how organisations are taking charge of change. In this conversation we cover:

• The number one mistake organisations make when embarking on a change initiative?  
• How to select the people with the right characteristics, vision and power to drive through change
• The key ways to alleviate some of the pressure people feel when going through a change project. 
• How to energise the team, the pessimists and the cynics?  
• How to ensure new behaviours are embedded and a continuous change process becomes part of the culture

THE 6 DIFFERENT TYPES OF FREEDOM YOU NEED TO PROGRESS YOUR CAREER – JACQUELINE LAWRENCE

Now we are in the post-pandemic phase following Covid, and the reduction of remote working is being felt, do you dread going back to working in the new “normal”?

• Are you feeling stuck in your current position with no potential for growth?
• Do you want more space and time to innovate, start new projects, or hobbies?
• Maybe you find that you’re not getting the same fulfillment from your work or other activities you do.
• You could be happy with your career but now find you’re too busy for anything else?

The real question is could you do with more “Freedom”?

Freedom can be interpreted in so many ways. Many of us want it but are fearful to do what it takes to experience it. One thing most people would agree on is freedom is empowerment.

In this presentation, we will look at the:

• Value of freedom
• Dive into the 6 different types of freedom you need to perform at your best and avoid burn-out in your career or business.
•  Empowering you towards freedom – simple steps you can start taking towards your version of freedom

THE ANATOMY OF A VERTICALLY UNWELL PROFESSIONAL  – JANICE NAIKEN

Are you in the 85% of professionals who are vertically unwell? If this is you then you need to join me on this LIVE.

In this presentation, we will look at the:

• Are you in the 85% of professionals who are vertically unwell?
• Why is it important to know? (Case Study)
• Listen to your body and be ready for business and beyond

IGNITE THE SPARK OF A MILLION ENTREPRENEURS

In the last week of the Inspire Summit, Keely Woolley is interviewing Mark Farrer-Brown of Fit to Lead.

Mark is on a mission to ignite the spark of a million entrepreneurs and in this interview, Mark will discuss:

• Delivering on your legacy today  –  your purpose, the how and the why
• Activities you need to carry out to ignite that spark we specifically look at the 5 key pillars
• Being a thinking partner with leaders in this space

DOES WORK OVERWHELM STOP YOU FROM GETTING ENOUGH GOOD QUALITY SLEEP – RUTH WATKINS 

It’s time to banish the sleepless nights and start adopting some new habits that will help you to have a good night’s sleep.

Sleep is the time when our brains and our bodies recharge and its vital to good health but when you are stressed sleep is anything but restful.

In this presentation, we will be looking at:

• Learning some essential techniques to help you get a better night’s sleep
• Understanding why giving up sleep when under pressure is one of the biggest mistakes
• Examining the sleep/stress vicious circle
• Creating a great sleep schedule so your body will say thank you