“Evolve or else” Human-Centered Leadership: Empower Teams in a Digital Era

What made someone a great leader in a predominantly face-to-face world isn’t enough to keep them being a great leader in a hybrid world of work. This session explores leadership practices that are essential in today’s technology-driven workplace, focusing on empathy, trust, and empowerment as the cornerstones of successful team dynamics. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas around changing their own approach to leadership, and upskilling other leaders in their organisations – as well as being more able to assess the quality of hybrid leadership in their organisations.

This event will be delivered by Gary Cookson. Gary is a father of four and a husband of one, running a successful business, EPIC , in his spare time. He’s an expert on work and workplace performance, with extensive experience leading and directing HR, OD and L&D functions across all sectors. His clients like working with him as he is authentic, honest, knowledgeable, communicative and people focused, with a broad and deep range of skills and experience – a glance at his prolific social media output will verify this.

Gary is a leading expert in the design and delivery of leadership, management and HR/L&D programmes, as well as an inspiring and entertaining keynote speaker. He has been recognised in the HR Most Influential awards, written for publications worldwide and spoken at global events.

His first book, HR for Hybrid Working was published in June 2022. His second book, Making Hybrid Working Work is published January 2025. He is one of the worlds' leading thinkers on hybrid working, and the modern world of work and in regular demand with clients and conference organisers worldwide as a result, speaking on these topics plus leadership management and various HR/L&D issues.

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