Lizzie Penny & Alex Hirst Keynote Speaker

• How the personalisation of work can maximise productivity in the digital age

During this talk Alex and Lizzie share their personal stories and their passion for personalised working. They demonstrate how they’ve been applying it for the last 10 years, share their framework for personalised productivity and inspire their audience about its potential for a future of work enabled by technology where we can all work in the way that suits us best.

• Why flexible working doesn’t go far enough; autonomy at work in a digital age

Alex and Lizzie give a brief overview of the history of work and outlines why flexible work isn’t the future. They candidly share their personal stories, along with the macro conditions that were a catalyst for ‘workstyle’ - autonomy at work (ageing, independence and technology). They discuss Hoxby as a prototype of this way of working and what they learned, as well as the benefits this way of working can bring to wellbeing, productivity and society.

• A new era of leadership; step changing productivity in a post-pandemic world

Aimed at managers and leaders, Alex and Lizzie outline strategies for working better in our digital, post-pandemic world, including progressive working practices (digital first, trust based and asynchronous working) and their framework for inclusive leadership for diverse and remote teams. They draw on their personal experiences of running a prototype organisation working this way for clients that include some of the biggest businesses in the world.

• Bringing the whole human to work; improving wellbeing through working in a radically different way

Each of us is a complex and dynamic individual with a unique combination of skills, passions and circumstances. What if work could be individualised so that each person could be their true authentic self, and their work could not just fit around this but be perfected to fit perfectly alongside it? Alex and Lizzie discuss this topic, whilst bringing tools and models from their decade-long campaign for the individualisation of work in order to leave attendees inspired that there is a bright future ahead.

• Closing the gaps; why intersectional inclusion and individualising work are the future

Alex and Lizzie identify 7 groups who are structurally excluded from work by the legacy of industrial age working practices. But closing the working gaps for these groups can only come from focussing not on the groups, but rather on the individual themselves and their intersectionality. Presenting a new viewpoint focused on intersectional inclusion, Alex and Lizzie share eye-opening statistics, frameworks and strategies including examples from their work collaborating with charities, government and employers in order to lead pioneering new projects of working in a workstyle way in order to facilitate redefined world of work, which in turn can redefine society.