Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London

Dr. Tracy Brower, PhD, MM, MCRW
Vice President of Workplace Insights, Steelcase
Author, The Secrets to Happiness at Work and Bring Work to Life and Critical Connections
Senior Contributor, Forbes and Fast Company

Inspiring Connection: The Power of Community in Work and Life

Things are complex and overwhelming today, but being embedded in a community can provide stability, wellbeing and fulfillment. In this session we’ll talk about what makes community work and how to catalyze and sustain community in work and life. We’ll discuss new research, fresh perspectives and the implications for workplace in the future of work.  

From Agility to Coherence: Designing Organizations That Perform Under Pressure

For over a decade, agility has been positioned as the answer to uncertainty. Yet despite significant investment in transformation, many organizations today are faster but more fragmented, with increasing pressure on leaders and teams to keep up.

This session explores a different perspective. The real challenge is not speed, but coherence. When decision rights, governance, and accountability are unclear, organizations create motion rather than progress, especially under pressure.

Drawing on enterprise experience across complex, multi-business environments, this session will outline how leaders can design for coherence through clear decision-making structures, governance alignment, and stability anchors. The focus is practical: how to enable organizations to adapt without fragmentation, and perform without burning out their people.

Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London

Kamaria Scott
Founder and CEO
Enetic

Caring for the People Who Care for Everyone Else at Work

Managers play a central role in shaping the day-to-day experience of work. They are the ones supporting their teams, driving performance, and creating the conditions for engagement to take hold.

But while expectations for managers continue to grow, the experience of being a manager has remained largely unchanged.

In this session, Kamaria Scott explores what it means to truly support the people we rely on most. Drawing on her experience working with organizations to strengthen manager effectiveness, she invites leaders to rethink how engagement is enabled not through one-time initiatives, but through the way work is designed and supported every day.

Participants will explore:

• Why engagement efforts often stall at the manager level
• What managers actually need to sustain care, performance, and connection
• Practical ways to better support managers through clarity, structure, and everyday moments that matter

This session offers a grounded and hopeful perspective on how organizations can better support managers, creating workplaces where both people and performance can thrive.

Talk 1: 8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London

Danielle Krischik
Author of The Story Effect | Keynote Speaker | Partner
Knight Agency

The Story Effect: How Storytelling Creates Connection and Drives Performance

Storytelling isn’t just a speaking skill.
It’s a connection strategy.

Companies with connected employees achieve better retention, higher profits, greater productivity and increased customer satisfaction.

In this upcoming session, you’ll understand how to use storytelling to create connection and drive performance.

Danielle Krischik delivers an engaging, TED-style session focused on the science of storytelling and how it drives connection and performance in the workplace. She will introduce a four-part framework from her book, The Story Effect, and provide practical cheat sheets you can apply immediately. The session will include interactive moments and discussion with the group.

8am SFO, 11am, NYC, 4pm London