Wellbeing at work - The CIPD in Wales half-day conference

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During this conference, we will explore how organisations can support their people's wellbeing, benefits and importance of doing so.

9.00 – 9.30 Registration, networking, and refreshments

9.30 – 9.35 Welcome and Event opening

9.35 – 10.10 Session 1: CIPD perspective, Rachel Suff, Senior Policy & Practice Advisor Building healthy workplaces that support people's wellbeing through the employee lifecycle:

• Adopting a risk- and evidence-based framework to improve health and wellbeing outcomes
• Fostering a safe and inclusive culture so that people feel confident to share health issues
• Developing line manager confidence and capability to support people's wellbeing

10.10 - 10.30 Session 2: Welsh policy perspective

10.30 – 11.00 Session 3: Mental wellbeing Case studies - Speakers TBC

11.00 – 11.30 am Break, refreshments and networking

11.30 – 12.15 Session 4: Financial wellbeing – Charles cotton – CIPD Senior Policy & Practice Advisor

12.15 – 13.00 Session 5: The art of the brilliance, Nikki Ayles – HR Wellbeing Bouncebackability
Some may call it ‘resilience’ but we prefer ‘BOUNCEBACKABILITY’. Not only is it areal word, it’s also a modern-day superpower.
Change has always happened, but recently it’s got a whole lot faster and when life is rattling along at this speed, we need to be more psychologically resilient and adaptive than ever.
Whilst a lucky few seem hardwired to bounce back and grow in the face of adversity and setbacks, it doesn’t come automatically to most of us. The brilliant news is that BOUNCEBACKABILITY is a learned behaviour. We can all cultivate personal skills and resources which help us not just cope better with stress and adversity, but embrace change and use challenges as opportunities to grow.
BOUNCEBACKABILITY uses the latest thinking in areas of positive psychology, post-traumatic growth, CBT, growth mindsets, learned optimism and explanatory styles. The good news is that we’re careful to disguise these concepts and deliver a session that is thought-provoking and great fun.

13.00 –13.10 Closure: Wrap up and Thanks from CIPD Wales.

13.10 – 14.00 Lunch & Networking

Rachel leads on the CIPD’s public policy work for employment relations and health and well-being, and is a policy and research professional with over 20 years’ experience in the employment and HR arena. She has recently led a range of policy and research studies about health and wellbeing at work, including the CIPD’s annual Health and well-being at work survey report and represents the CIPD on key Government and external advisory groups, such as the Work and Health Unit Employer Engagement Forum. Rachel is a qualified HR practitioner and researcher with an MSc in Human Resource Management from Portsmouth University and a post-graduate diploma in social research methods from Sussex University; her prior roles include working as a senior policy adviser at Acas.

C onnect and follow Rachel here.

Charles Cotton is a senior CIPD adviser. He directs its reward research agenda and is also responsible for the CIPD's public policy work around pay and benefits.

He frequently appears in the media commentating on reward and is often invited to speak about compensation and benefits issues at events.

Connect with Charles here

Nikki Ayles, Art of Brilliance

Nikki’s career path has taken her on a journey through Marketing and Brand Management, Commercial Training, Coaching and L&D Consultancy, until more recently when she found her ‘calling’ – to help people flourish and become the best version of themselves. She’s now addicted to the warm glow she gets from inspiring and guiding people to spend more of their time in the 2% zone.

In addition to delivering a wicked Art of Being Brilliant session, Nikki’s specialist areas are Resilience, Strengths, Wellbeing Coaching and Mindfulness. For her, it all adds up to the same thing - helping people upgrade to ‘best possible self’.

Nikki’s proud to call herself a psychology nerd. She loves it! Psychology is her hobby and, as such, she’s accumulated quite a collection; MSc in Psychology, MSc in Positive Psychology (MAPP), she’s a Fellow of the Positive Psychology Guild and an Associate Member of the International Society for Coaching Psychologists. And guess what, she also gets to practise her hobby as a lecturer at the University of Worcester’s Psychology department. Nikki’s currently working towards the ultimate nerdy collectable, a PhD in Positive Psychology, researching the power of nature for wellbeing. There’s more. We could tell you that Nikki’s also a Master Strengths Coach (StrengthScope™) and a certified Mindfulness Teacher, but our word count is nearly up!

Outside of work, Nikki loves being out in nature with her slightly daft miniature Dachshunds, Paddington and Isabella. She enjoys throwing herself into new challenges (most recently surfing and SUP), distance running, devouring good books and spending quality time with friends and family.

Home - Art of Brilliance

Voco St David’s Cardiff https://stdavids.vocohotels.com/

Address: Havannah St, Cardiff CF10 5SD

Meeting Room : Dylan Thomas suite on the ground floor. Voco St David’s Cardiff (matterport.com)

Parking: pay and display parking is available at the hotel. Payment can be taken via Mi permit app, coins or contactless. Whilst the event is free, we have no control over the cost of parking.

When you arrive to the venue, facing the main doors, please go through the double set of doors on your left hand side. And you will see the registration desk on the ground floor.

The hotel has wheelchair access.

By train: The nearest train station is Cardiff Bay which is 14 mins walk from the hotel

By bus: bus routes 304, 305, X2, 1A, 1 city circle

By car: the post code is: CF10 5SD

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Annabelle Llanes on

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*This event may include an external speaker who has prepared their own presentation. Any views or opinions expressed by the speaker are their own and do not reflect those of the CIPD.

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