Wellbeing: moving beyond the tickbox

In today’s workplaces, wellbeing is no longer a ‘nice to have’—it’s essential for engagement, performance, and retention. Yet many organisations still struggle to move beyond surface-level or tickbox initiatives. This event will help you to make that shift and to create a culture where wellbeing is truly embedded and lived day to day.

This interactive session, Wellbeing: moving beyond the tickbox, is designed for people professionals, HR practitioners, and learning and development specialists who want to make a real difference to how wellbeing is understood and supported in their organisations. Together, we’ll explore what works (and what doesn’t), share practical examples, and discuss how to design wellbeing strategies that are both meaningful and sustainable. We will explore how using a standard might support your organisation to make this shift and hear from industry experts on what they did to make a big in their organisation.

Through evidence-based insight and real-world examples, you’ll leave equipped with new ideas, inspiration, and practical tools to help your organisation—and your people—grow, thrive, and succeed.

Objectives:

1. Explore what ‘meaningful wellbeing’ looks like – Understand how to move beyond tokenistic initiatives to create wellbeing approaches that are relevant, inclusive, and embedded in your organisation’s culture and everyday practice.

2. Identify practical, workable strategies based on great practice examples

Speaker:

This talk aims to help HR and L&D professionals understand best practices and impactful wellbeing initiatives that can be embedded into their organisation for effectively support, helping their people to grow, thrive and succeed.

Charlotte Hopkins, director of Kinbee

Charlotte brings together 20+ years of experience working within the health and wellbeing sector as a learning & development and quality assurance expert. Charlotte has worked with multiple businesses including Welsh Government, NHS and Public Health Wales to help them create, design and embed impactful and effective resources that improve the lives of individuals and their communities. She has been recently working with the Ajuda Foundation to create the Mental Health & Wellbeing Workplace Quality Mark and as a judge for the Mental Health & Wellbeing Awards has inside knowledge about what gold standard looks like!

Industry experts will also be sharing their experience of developing wellbeing initiatives that helped them make a meaningful difference around wellbeing in their organisation.

Other Information:

Nibbles & Mingle: 17:30

Event Start:18:00

Driving: Parking onsite, easy access via M4, turning off at J32 / Coryton Roundabout, 1st right on Pendwyallt Road/A4054 (if coming from Coryton Roundabout)

Rail: Coryton Station, then 15 minute walk north up Pendwyallt Road/ A4054

Bus: Services 26 (Cardiff - Blackwood), 132 (Cardiff - Maerdy) and 136 (Cardiff - Creigiau) all serve the bus station outside the Village Hotel.

Please note:

1. Reminder emails will be sent to you the day before, with a further reminder on the morning of the event.

2. Photography and video production may take place at the event, and these images may be used in the CIPD newsletters.

3. By attending the event, you are giving your consent for your image to be used on any CIPD promotional materials.

4. Please cancel your ticket so someone else can take your place if your plans change and you can no longer make it – there is usually a waitlist for our events.

5. 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.

6. If you require any reasonable adjustments to enhance your experience, please get in contact with us by responding to this email and we will do our best to accommodate.

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