Employee Experience & Wellness Conference
DON’T MISS OUT! Join us for Ragan’s Employee Experience & Wellness Conference at the Grand Hyatt, Denver
If you’re charged with creating a happy, healthy and productive workplace, then join Ragan and hundreds of your peers at the Employee Experience & Wellness Conference on Aug 14-16, where you'll be treated to best-in-class content, access to employee comms and HR leaders, and have a unique opportunity to connect all the dots in your employee experience — from onboarding to offboarding.
The speakers and peer-to-peer discussions we’ve lined up for you will give you the ideas and insights to bring back to your organization as you build a more sustainable and healthy workplace of the future.
Never has the overall employee journey — seeing, feeling and hearing culture, trust, gratitude and mindfulness — been as critical as now. This is your chance to be among your peers on the same journey to share best practices around keeping employees emotionally invested and motivated … and well.
In addition to pre-conference workshops and 1.5 days of event programming, the Conference will feature an awards luncheon for all participants, where we’ll announce the winners of the 2023 Workplace Wellness Awards, as well as the honorees in Ragan’s 2023 Workplace Wellness Hot List, a showcase of technology partners; networking events that include a night at the ballpark to watch the Colorado Rockies, a networking reception, plus much more.
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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- How to create an employee experience strategy to retain, recruit and motivate employees.
- Measuring your employee experience across all platforms — from events to intranets to onboarding.
- Customizing your engagement and wellness strategies for a distributed and hybrid workforce.
- Tying your wellness and engagement strategies to the bottom line.
- Ways to measure employee engagement to improve outcomes for your organization.
- Best next practices around Total Rewards.
- Aligning HR, Comms and Finance for a holistic approach to employee experience.
- Mental health initiatives that lead to positive change among your employee base.
- Storytelling techniques to amplify your workplace culture attributes.
- Leveraging social media and other content platforms to improve employee experience.
- Understanding the decision matrix around employee engagement and wellness technologies.
SPEAKERS
INTERESTED IN SPEAKING?
Please reach out to Director of Conferences
Alyssa Smith.
AGENDA
Get ready to roll up your sleeves for these immersive workshops led by wellness experts. Learn, network and be inspired!
There are currently five generations in the workforce, with Boomers on their way out and Gen Z just starting their careers. Health industry experts provide a step-by-step guide to creating a large multi-generational organization wellbeing program that includes delegating leadership support, establishing a wellness committee, implementing an incentive-based program, creating a social system, measuring success and more.
- Engaging a multi-generational workforce through wellness and communications
- Working with groups across the organization on a wellness strategy
- Address the wellness needs across the organization and the various life stages they’re in
- Ensure that DE&I is central to the wellbeing program and addresses everyone’s needs
Join leaders in HR and internal communications from the American Psychological Association and At The Start as they discuss how employee mental health impacts organizational effectiveness and strategies to develop and sustain a strong culture of wellbeing.
- Recent data on employee attitudes towards the workplace and mental health
- Wellbeing trends and themes across industries
- Starting and sustaining important conversations about mental health and wellbeing issues with employees
- A framework for prioritizing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace
- Leveraging campaigns, internal partnerships, managers, and communications channels to extend your reach
- Measuring impact and what to do with the data
If your goal is healthy and happy employees, don't underestimate the importance of your employees' in-office experience. One of the world's largest studies on human development and happiness found that people who are the most connected to others will stay healthier and live longer. Beyond having the tools and resources to do their job, how is your company fostering an environment of connection? By using employee feedback and building strong partnerships, you can build a robust communication strategy that supports a great in-office experience, spanning from engaging events and meetings to ensuring employees are building the relationships they need to thrive. You'll learn:
- The importance of in-office experience to employee wellbeing
- How to use employee feedback to prioritize and focus on what matters most to them
- How to build partnerships and influence change
- How to get leadership buy-in and support
- The power of stakeholder engagement
Join us for an evening of fun in downtown Denver. Grab drinks and get to know your fellow attendees at a Rockies game! You’ll find out what brings us all together and make some new connections. Game starts at 6:40 p.m.
Grab a bite to eat, fill your coffee cup, and prepare yourself for an enlightening day!
What are the big employee experience and wellness initiatives on the horizon? Hear directly from a leading wellness brand that is nailing the delicate dance we call work-life balance. David Hoke of Thrive Global will share the opportunities he’s found in this ever-important aspect of our lives, and the ways your organization can maximize holistic wellbeing to drive growth and profitability too. Sit back and gaze into the future of the “well employee’s” experience with David Hoke!
More than 65% of employers are planning to make employee mental health and emotional wellbeing programs one of their top three priorities over the next few years according to Willis Towers Watson (WTW). This panel will explore the insights you need to create a workspace that employees feel safe expressing themselves in.
- Mental health awareness trainings that are essential to employee wellness and identification and intervention trainings managers should be taking
- Partnering with employee resource groups (ERGs) to address population-specific mental health issues
- How to leverage manager communications to detect and diffuse burnout
- Providing digital behavioral health support to make it easy for employees to seek help or treatment
- Evaluating cultural competencies within the behavioral health provider network
“Is my life better by working here?” It's a common question on the mind of the workforce. Take a look at the critical questions people ask throughout their employee experience and learn how to map your answers to an actionable framework. We’ll explore:
- The most overlooked aspect of the employee experience journey.
- Seven questions people will ask while at your company.
- The first thing new people managers at your company should address.
What does your Total Rewards program look like? Is it the right mix of financial and non-financial offerings? To create an effective Total Rewards program, you must have an organizational strategy that optimizes your costs and investments and provides benefits that can work for everyone in your organization. Listen to expert Total Rewards consultants and a Chief Human Resources Officer as they show you how to address everyone’s holistic wellbeing and help your bottom line.
- Getting the right mix of rewards to compete in the global talent marketplace
- Using AI solutions to evaluate your Total Rewards program outcomes and make adjustments accordingly
- The changing expectations of a multi-generational workforce and what benefits matter most to each generation
- A future-focused approach to rewards that improves employee retention and overall job performance
- The best metrics for measuring the success of your Total Rewards benefits
A strategic partnership between HR and internal communicators can play a significant role in the wellbeing of your enterprise and its talent. Healthy HR-Comms partnerships produce engaging wellbeing initiatives that make a tangible difference in the organization’s bottom line. When you maximize this partnership, it improves awareness and activation of wellness benefits and yields better retention results. In this session you’ll hear from an internal comms and HR professional as they discuss:
- Applying AI tools to evaluate your benefits programs and craft messaging around their availability
- How to market your wellbeing initiatives and ensure your employees are leveraging them
- Ways to make a culture of health part of your organization’s long-term goals
- Encouraging employee wellness by establishing an internal network of health champions
Celebrate the accomplishments of Ragan's 2023 Workplace Wellness Awards finalists and the Hot List honorees. These people, agencies, and organizations exemplify what it means to push wellness forward! Ragan's Workplace Wellness Awards are the benchmark of excellence for high-performing organizations that take employee wellbeing seriously, worldwide while the Hot List highlights the accomplishments of organizations offering employee wellness solutions.
Atlanta-based academic healthcare institution Emory University implemented a unique solution to supporting the wellbeing of its 35,000 healthcare and health sciences employees. It created the Office of Well-Being, led by two Co-Chief Well-Being Officers. Through this department, the organization provides frontline workers — and thousands more across its many departments — with vital news, resources and opportunities for connection, as well as advocates for system changes that support the wellbeing of their people and teams. In this session, attendees will take a deep dive into:
- Overcoming the challenges of connecting and communicating with frontline workers through a blend of in-person huddles, information gathering and digital channels.
- How to look at communications through the lens of wellbeing, ensuring its principles are folded into overall messaging irrespective of topic or purpose.
- Systematized communications across large organizations and approaching challenges as a united front while ensuring efficiency and empathy at every level.
Employees that feel there is a clear career path for them at their organization are more likely to stick around as they grow their careers and, in turn, the organization. In this panel, HR and employee engagement experts will show you how to customize professional development opportunities that nurture career paths for particular job functions and individuals. Discover how dynamic organizational structures, professional training, and professional mentoring can positively shape your workforce.
- Exploring employee recognition programs and mentoring initiatives that support career growth
- Retaining top talent by maintaining morale, equity, and connection in a dispersed workforce
- Professional development and training opportunities that everyone can benefit from
- Customizing development pathways to specific job functions and individuals
- Right-sizing roles and responsibilities to ensure a fair playing field on the path to success
Nowadays many organizations have a dispersed workforce and are always rethinking workplace wellness for the work-from-home environment. Studies say remote work improves employees’ work-life balance, but studies also say it has adversely affected workers' mental and physical health. This session will explore the impact of remote work on employees’ wellbeing and identify steps employers can take to maintain a healthy workforce. As working from home becomes the new normal,
- Integrating AI tools and tactics to communicate wellness benefits with your dispersed workforce and monitor their use
- Ensuring your wellness programs are reaching all of your remote workers
- They key to a successful collaboration between HR and ERGs so your wellness champions are promoting their action plans
- Creating clear remote work policies that comply with your company’s regulations and avoid putting the organization at risk
A look at how one organization is seeing the most meaningful engagement from its scattered workforce when it engages them in the storytelling. It has learned that people will open and read your communications when they see themselves pictured, celebrated and recognized. So First Onsite seeks out the work of employees in the communities, it gets to know what they’re passionate about, and it has fun with social media campaigns that encourage participation from the workforce.
Leadership across organizations should be a constant megaphone for supporting, promoting, and maintaining a positive employee experience. Discover the ways in which Mtech Mechanical is working to educate and encourage its team members to participate in a comprehensive wellness program. Join this session as they discuss:
- How HR & marketing collaborate on wellbeing success at the organization
- Leadership’s role in assessing and securing the right combination of benefits
- How a solid leadership commitment to wellness can build a health-centric culture into your organization’s long-term strategies
- Strategies to encourage team member engagement beyond the initial launch of new benefits programs
Taking a blanket approach to employee experience and benefits doesn’t address everyone’s needs in an organization. In fact, it may even be perceived as lacking the core tenets of diversity, equality, and inclusion! An expert from Citizens will share how they used internal data to learn their lessons and get this formula right. They’ll discuss how they tapped into Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to identify the gaps that were hurting their business and conflicting with their DE&I initiatives.
- Emphasizing your DE&I initiative as a core value rather than a peripheral task
- Understanding unique employee needs when it comes to health and wellbeing
- Collaborating with your wellbeing leaders who champion DE&I goals and initiatives
- Creating sponsorship programs to provide opportunities for underrepresented groups
- Successfully communicating expectations and holding leaders accountable for results
Wind down from the first day of the conference. Grab a drink and hors d’oeuvre as you network and make new friends.
Grab a bite to eat, fill your coffee cup, and prepare yourself for an enlightening day!
Humans are social beings that naturally share, develop, and sustain meaningful relationships with others. The more employees work with others, the deeper these ties can become and more value their relationships will bring to your organization. Join a panel of HR and employee engagement experts as they dive into what creates a socially interactive workforce in 2023.
- Tapping all your communications channels and digital collaboration tools to increase cross-functional teamwork
- Encouraging curiosity and experimentation with new innovations like AI and Chat GPT for writing, recruiting, and mentorship matchmaking
- Revamping your Intranet and/or employee communication hub to promote employee engagement and boost internal communications
- Discussing the connection between social and emotional wellbeing with your employees
You may have more caregivers in your workforce than you realize, as an estimated 47% of middle-aged Americans support family members over the age of 65 and children under 18. Taking on more responsibilities as an in-home care provider for children and/or adults often presents challenges to employees. Half of American caregivers feel their responsibilities have a negative impact on their health and career growth, but employers can help mitigate these effects. Discover ways to create flexible leave policies and work arrangements, provide financial support, and ensure your caregiver employees have the resources they need.
- The top obstacles parents and caregivers face and how you can help lighten their load
- Outsourcing specific tasks to AI tools so that automation and machine learning solutions can step in while your talent is on leave
- How to develop successful transition plans as you prepare your caregiver employees and their teams for an extended leave
- Developing a competitive parental leave policy that measures up the best benefits packages on offer in 2023 and beyond
Employees not only respond positively to authenticity in high-stakes, fast-paced corporate cultures—it’s a necessity. Tackling this psychological need requires examining the relationship between authenticity, working sustainably, and effectiveness. Find out how communicators can apply meditation techniques to take a conscious approach to living and working with purpose, one micro moment of wellness at a time. Attendees will discover:
- The power of awareness of micro moments and our ability to choose how we navigate the often unpredictable landscape of work culture
- How to evolve the experience of your time, energy, and attention through incorporating micro moments to transform your behavioral and relational habits
- A practical step-by-step roadmap for integrating micro moments in meaningful ways
- How to adapt data and metrics to intentionally integrate conscious techniques that nurture the mind, body and spirit
According to new research from Ragan and Transitions Optical, a whopping 7 out of 10 employees say that vision problems are affecting their work and productivity. The most impacted group: those who work from home. In this 10-minute Lightning Talk you will learn ways to help protect employee vision and boost productivity by understanding:
- The impact vision issues, eyestrain and fatigue have on employees, especially those who work from home.
- The surprising workplace wellness initiative employees want the most to improve their productivity.
- The most effective ways to address employee eye health.
As a rule HR and finance leaders manage the monetary aspects of employees’ financial wellbeing. In this session, you’ll discover how others are supporting their employees’ financial fitness by offering financial planning education and resources that help them develop skills like budgeting, building an emergency plan, managing debt, electing insurance options, improving credit scores, allocating to retirement plans, and more.
- Evaluating key data that speaks to your workforce’s financial stress and finance education needs
- Real-life stories from a wide range of employees with varying financial earnings and circumstances
- How to help employees proactively prepare for economic downturns
- Strategies for turning financial wellbeing insights into action plans
- Identifying opportunities for improved education and financial fitness in individual employees
SPONSORS & PARTNERS
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
If you care about employee wellbeing you need to meet us at this conference!
We’ve designed the program for those in:
- Communications
- Human Resources
- DEI
- Finance
- Operations
- Recruiting
- Facilities
- Risk Management
- Health Management Consultant
- Insurance
GET RECOGNIZED!
Lawrence Ragan Communications, Inc is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities. This program is valid for 7 PDCs.
Each registration comes with a personalized "Employee Experience & Wellness Conference" Certificate of Completion for attending.
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PRICING
Join us for the Employee Experience & Wellness Conference:
| ADVANCED | EARLY BIRD | VIP | REGULAR RATE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference All-Access Passincludes the Pre-Conference Workshops | ||||
| Standard | $1,999 | $2,099 | $2,199 | $2,299 |
| Nonprofit/Gov | $1,799 | $1,899 | $1,999 | $2,099 |
| Ragan Insider | $1,749 | $1,849 | $1,949 | $2,049 |
| Conference Registration - Individual | ||||
| Standard | $1,399 | $1,499 | $1,599 | $1,699 |
| Nonprofit/Gov/Edu | $1,199 | $1,299 | $1,399 | $1,499 |
| Ragan Insider | $1,149 | $1,249 | $1,349 | $1,499 |
| Conference Recording On Demand | ||||
| $999 | $999 | $999 | $999 | |
For those who can’t attend the conference live, an on-demand option is available during the registration process.
Group Discounts
Would you and your team like to attend? Group pricing is available when registering!
RAGAN COUNCIL MEMBER DISCOUNTS
Membership includes free registration passes. Contact Shallon Blackburn for more information on becoming a member.
RAGAN INSIDER DISCOUNTS
Insiders receive $250 off current rates. Not a Ragan Insider? You can become one during registration for this event!
LOCATION
Grand Hyatt Denver
1750 Welton St
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 295-1234
hyatt.com
We have secured a room block at the Grand Hyatt Denver Hotel for conference attendees. The hotel reservation link will be sent to you after you register for the conference.
Adventure Awaits!
Denver offers an amazing array of things to do. Take a hike in the Rocky Mountains or Red Rocks Park, smell the roses in the Denver Botanic Gardens, or explore the city center, with cultural staples such as the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum’ You can learn how coins are made at the United States Mint – Denver, and have some fun at Elitch Gardens Theme & Waterpark, the National Ballpark Museum, and Coors Field. Extend your stay and explore all that Denver has to offer.
WONDERING IF YOU SHOULD ATTEND?
Here’s what past attendees are saying about Ragan and PR Daily Events!
Anything put on by Ragan I knew was going to be great, but this conference exceeded my expectations. The attention to detail and intentionality behind the speak lineup was evident throughout. Looking forward to the next one!
Great speakers and great ideas throughout the conference. From start to finish, the sessions were insightful and efficient - I have added a few tips and tricks to add to my communications toolbox!
This was an informative, fast-paced, fun conference full of timely topics and great speakers. I haven't stopped telling my team about all the insights I learned.
The Ragan Communications conferences are extraordinarily beneficial; learn new strategies, positively reinforce what has been done right and tweaks the approach to improve both internal and external communications.
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