It’s all about People, Behaviour & Culture Change

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Evening Prior to The SHE Show

7:00 PM – 7:45 PM

Networking Evening Drinks Reception

A great way to kick start the evening prior to the show by networking with like minded individuals in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

8:00 PM – 10:15 PM

Networking Evening Dinner

Enjoy a scrumptious 3 course meal with light hearted after dinner entertainment.

9:00 PM – 9:45 PM

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Unboxing Potential

Rachael Mackenzie, World Thai-boxing and British boxing Champion

Discover Rachael’s Knockout Strategies For Achieving Your Goals

Rachael Mackenzie’s journey from suicide attempts to the top of the world stage is one of resilience and grit. Prepare to be moved and to move as Rachael shares actionable steps you can take to cultivate your own resilience and embrace your journey, no matter how challenging it may seem.

In her keynote speech, Rachael will delve into her personal experiences, highlighting the pivotal moments that transformed her life. She will discuss the importance of mental health awareness, the power of vulnerability, and the strength found in community support.

Key Takeaways Include:

– Finding Purpose: Insights on how to discover and pursue your passion, turning challenges into a driving force for positive change.
– Resilience Building: Techniques to strengthen emotional resilience and bounce back from setbacks.
– Harnessing Neuroplasticity: Learn to reshape your thoughts and emotions through positive habits empowering you towards personal growth.

On the Day of The SHE Show

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM

Registration, Breakfast Reception and Exhibition Viewing

8:30 AM – 8:50 AM

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Welcome and Opening Remarks

Duncan Aspin, Delivering with Certainty Director, VolkerStevin

Duncan has worked in construction for over 30 years both operationally on site and as a health and safety professional. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing successful behaviour change within organisations and champions embracing a positive, inclusive and solution focused culture.

Mental Health and Wellbeing

8:50 AM – 9:35 AM

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Danger Mind Your Head

Rob Muldoon, The MHY Podcast

Rob started his career in construction as an apprentice bricklayer. Over two decades he worked his way up to be a project manager running Tier 1 projects such as ITV Studios, Manchester City’s training ground, large projects for the MOD and so on.

He also had his own brickwork company, growing the business from just himself to a team of 16. Those years were a big and steep learning curve for him as this was the first time he started to realise that working and not looking after his own needs started to impact his mental wellbeing and the people around him that he loved.

In 2018, he experienced a mental breakdown due to ignoring all the warning signs … not speaking about how he was feeling and the attitude … ‘Things like this don’t happen to people like me’.

“Mental health! I don’t get any of that rubbish…I’m alright I can keep going! I don’t get depressed I don’t get sad … none of that garbage bothers me”

Rob will openly share his personal story and journey from where he was to where he is today.

Key Takeaways Include:

– Understanding people’s mental well-being
– Building resilience and overcoming adversity
– Self-development

Behaviour and Culture Change

9:35 AM – 10:20 AM

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Back to Basics

Gerard Hand, Past President of IOSH, Director, GPH Safety

This presentation will enable delegates to explore the Direction that they are taking Safey and Health within their organisations. It will examine what we really mean by safety culture and question how we do things.

Key Takeaways Include:

– Challenge how things are done within your organisation and have the confidence to be able to change
– Understand that “Culture” comes in many formats and one style does not suit everyone.
– Gain more confidence in the language to use with our business leaders including “return on Investment”

10:20 AM – 10:25 AM

Summary

Duncan Aspin, Delivering with Certainty Director, VolkerStevin

10:25 AM – 11:25 AM

Refreshments and Exhibition Viewing

Climate Change and Sustainability

11:25 AM – 12:10 PM

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The Adventure of Sustainability: Why Biodiversity is Vital

Dr Kate Rawles, ‘Adventure Plus’ Author and Environmental Advocate

Kate is passionate about using adventurous journeys to raise awareness and inspire action on our most urgent environmental challenges. Her most recent Adventure Plus journey, The Life Cycle, was a largely solo ride the length of South America on a bamboo bike she built herself, exploring biodiversity loss as an environmental issue as serious as climate change. In this sumptuously illustrated talk, Kate – who was rubbish at school sports and has never been particularly athletic – will share the highs and lows of her 8288 mile ride through an extraordinary range of landscapes and habitats; the brilliant and often brave activists she met en route and, above all, what she learned about biodiversity and how to protect it.

Key Takeaways Include:

– What biodiversity is, what’s happening to it, why it matters and how biodiversity loss interconnects with climate change and other major environmental challenges;
– What has biodiversity ever done for us? Why all industries and organisations depend on biodiversity and are or will be affected by the ecological crises we face;
– What real leadership to tackle these issues entails and how adventure as a mindset can help transform our approach to sustainability.

Overcoming Adversity and Resilience

12:10 PM – 1:05 PM

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PPE for the Mind

Dr Helen Garr, The Wellbeing GP

Life doesn’t always go to plan—but what if our setbacks could become our greatest teachers? In this inspiring keynote, Dr. Helen Garr explores the power of resilience, showing how we can rise stronger by embracing failure, finding wisdom in our past, and crafting our own path forward.

Through Dr Helen’s 5 F’s you’ll discover practical strategies to navigate challenges, identify what keeps you afloat, and create your own mental PPE—your GLOW—to protect and sustain you. With engaging stories, science-backed insights, and real-world tools, this session will help you move from surviving to thriving, proving that even in the toughest times, hope and possibility are always within reach.

The secret to resilience isn’t in someone else’s story—it’s in your own.

Key Takeaways Include:

– Failure is a stepping stone, not a dead end. Learn to reframe failure as feedback, uncover the lessons within your setbacks, and use them as fuel for growth.
– Identify what keeps you afloat. Recognise your personal “life rafts”—whether it’s people, purpose, or practices—that support you in tough times and help you stay resilient.
– Create your mental PPE—your GLOW. Build a personal toolkit of mindset shifts and habits that protect your well-being, sustain hope, and carry you forward, no matter the challenge.

1:05 PM – 1:10 PM

Summary

Duncan Aspin, Delivering with Certainty Director, VolkerStevin

1:10 PM – 2:10 PM

Networking Lunch and Exhibition Viewing

Legal Advice and Updates

2:10 PM – 2:55 PM

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The Wonderful World of Inquests!

Paul Burnley, Partner and Head of Compliance & Regulatory at Freeths Solicitors 

A workplace fatality is a nightmare situation! Following on from the inevitable Police and HSE Investigation is the inescapable Coroner’s Inquest. Nowadays this Jury hearing has taken on a new importance and has consequences. This presentation gives a down to Earth explanation of what an inquest is all about and dispels the myths !

 Key Takeaways Include:

– What Inquests do and what it may mean for you.
– How Inquests actually operate in practice and what they look at.
– Your role in an Inquest and how to perform!

Inspirational Leadership

2:55 PM – 3:40 PM

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Winning Together

Kate Richardson-Walsh OBE, Former Captain of GB and England Women’s Hockey, Olympic Gold & Bronze Medalist

This is the inside story of what it takes to build high performing teams. Kate Richardson-Walsh will share powerful lessons from the Great Britain women’s hockey team journey to gold in Rio 2016. Through intense periods of change, Kate will share the importance of individual mindset, empathic team culture and foundational behavioural alignment. Kate demonstrates that successful teams are made up of people who are valued as human beings and supported to individually flourish. 

Key Takeaways Include:

Covering connection, care, awareness, empowerment and alignment in all high performing teams.
Tools to take away and enable you to be the very best version of yourself and enable teammates to thrive.
The power of difference in teams and leveraging on that difference as one of your greatest strengths.

3:40 PM – 3:45 PM

Closing Remarks

Duncan Aspin, Delivering with Certainty Director, VolkerStevin