The Importance of Health and Wellbeing in the Future of Workplace
Date & Time: | November 2, 2023 8:30 am | Add to Calendar (.ics) |
Venue: | Virtual Event |
Promoting and supporting employee health and wellbeing in a workplace can deliver mutual benefit to people, organisations, economies, and communities. Healthy workplaces help people to flourish and reach their potential, benefitting both the employer and the employee – increased resilience, better engagement, reduced sickness absence and higher performance and productivity are all potential benefits. However, wellbeing initiatives often fall short of their potential because they stand alone, isolated from the everyday business. Our panellists will discuss how health and wellbeing needs to be integrated throughout an organisation, embedded in its culture, leadership, and people management.
The webinar will be introduced by Ami Kotecha, Chair CULS ESG Forum and Co-Founder of AMRO Partners, who will be joined by an expert panel, including:
Moderator – Jane Muir-Sands
Vice President Global Real Estate and Operations, IBM
Jane leads IBM’s Global Real Estate (GRE) organization. Her team manages IBM’s more than 700 locations throughout 100+ countries worldwide. These locations are comprised of over ~45M million square feet of space including, office space, data centre, manufacturing, development and lab space for over 270K employees and contractors within IBM’s facilities.
Jane takes an active role within industry championing the advancement of technology and professional practice for real estate and particularly in the space of sustainability and asset efficiency. Jane has led the transformation of IBMs own real estate portfolio and IOT asset management through the application of AI and data led decisions in its role as client zero through leveraging the market leading capabilities of IBMs real estate software. In this role notably Jane played a leadership role in the selection; acquisition; integration and further product development of enVizi into the wider asset management suite of TRIRIGA, Maximo and Turbonomic for data centres. It is this powerful combination that enables IBM to demonstrate leadership within industry in the space of ESG including in its own ability to achieve its 2030 net zero goals.
Prior to joining IBM Jane was the Vice President for Workplace Travel and Fleet Services at Unilever where she led a global team that supported 80+m square feet of space.
Jane has also held senior leadership roles at Shell, Deloitte and KPMG in corporate real estate, consulting and real estate corporate finance. Jane is a chartered surveyor by trade.
Jane has served as a Global Board Member of CoreNet the world’s largest association of corporate real estate professionals and is active within industry.
Confirmed speakers:
Shelley Roberts – Group Chief Commercial Officer for Compass Group plc
Shelley Roberts is Group Chief Commercial Officer for Compass Group plcthe world’s largest food and support services company. Shelley is responsible for leading the Group’s Global Clients, Strategy, M&A, Health & Safety, Sustainability, Digital, Procurement and H&S functions. In 2023 Shelley commissioned a Global Eating at Work survey, obtaining data on food and well-being in workplaces of varied sectors and categories
Dr Andrew Buroni – Director of Health and Social Impact, Savills
Andrew is Savills Director of Health and Social Impact Assessment with over 21 years of delivering robust health impact assessment, fully integrated within the regulatory planning process. His experience spans almost every sector, including energy generation and grid transmission; waste management; transport; civil aviation; spatial planning; regeneration; and sustainable development for Local Planning, DCO and Hybrid Bill.
Sophie Schuller – Lead Scientific Research and Insights, Occupier Strategy and Workplace, Cushman & Wakefield
Sophie Schuller is EMEA Head of Applied Research for Cushman & Wakefield (“C&W”), running C&W’s Living Lab, researching the impact of work and workplace on health, wellbeing and performance. Sophie has over 18 years’ experience advising some of the world’s largest organisations on how commercial architecture, workplace design and the built environment can be designed, managed and utilised to create economic, environmental and social vitality. Recently, Sophie led a research team evaluating how to measure social health of cities; the findings of which are due for publication in Jan 2024. In addition, Sophie is currently studying for the PhD at the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) researching how physical workplace environments mediate neurophysiological stress and impact cognition.
Sophie holds an MSc in Neuroscience from King’s College London, a BSc (Hon) in Urbanism and completed her MBA at London Business School in 2016.
Ann Marie Aguilar, WELL Faculty, WELL AP Senior Vice President, EMEA
Ann Marie joined the IWBI team in 2016, and from a base in London oversees the day-to-day activities of IWBI across the EMEA region. She supports the business development and technical teams and is the first point of contact for clients and design teams interested in all applications of WELL Certification. Among the first cohort of WELL APs, she now also provides education and support to industry as a WELL Faculty member.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the NYIT and received CEnv status in 2012. She is also a Fellow of the RSA, and a member of IEMA.
Please book tickets via the Savills portal: https://savills.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hk02EKHqTFa0oDLQTAuydA