28th September 2022
Meet Inspirathon speaker – Bruce Daisley
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Bruce Daisley is a writer, consultant and one of the UK’s most influential voices on the intersection of life and work. His research into better working practices has featured in publications including the Guardian, the Telegraph, Wired UK, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal. His podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat has been an Apple number one business podcast and has featured psychologists, neuroscientists and workplace experts including Daniel Pink, Scott Galloway, Noreena Hertz and Rutger Bregman. He was previously the European Vice-President for Twitter, the firm’s most senior employee outside of the US. His first book, The Joy of Work, was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into sixteen languages.
Why do you do what you do?
I always enjoyed looking at workplace culture dynamics. Why some teams seemed more motivated than others. Now I work with organisations as they try to make their teams feel more connected and more creative.
Describe your talk in 100 words
Over the last couple of years the concept of resilience has never been in hotter demand. But that demand has been so high that it has created space for opportunists to make out they have the magic ingredients for it. Meanwhile we’ve missed the fact that the ingredients for resilience are right before our eyes.
What problems will your talk solve for our audience and why is it needed?
Whether a team member, a manager, a parent or a friend Bruce will explain how any of us can be more resilient.
What valuable insights, strategies, tools or techniques will our audience walk away with?
Clear strategies to feel stronger personally but also how to create stronger more cohesive cultures of our colleagues.
What do you think will be the major differentiator of the workplace of the future, as opposed to the way we work today?
Our relationship with work is shifting from something like our connection with school, to something like our relationship with college. It’s a powerful shift in the way our work forges our identity and a pushback in the way that we’ve been infantilised by our jobs. But it also means that we feel a more arms length distance with our job, with implications for workplace culture.