The PeopleFirst
Global Summit ’25
October 22, 2025
About the Summit
The PeopleFirst Global Summit (previously Workplace Inspiration) is a free 24-hour non-stop virtual event designed to give you the confidence, tools and options to make 2025 the year you create a truly inspiring workplace.
This unique event spans the globe – uniting us through our shared purpose to change the world by improving the world of work. As the 50+ short presentations move from Auckland to New York (local time), you will receive advice tailored to your specific region and the challenges you are currently facing.
You will leave energized, with clarity and control about your options and freedom to choose your next steps in an uncertain world. Everyone who attends will take away ways to make simple changes that have the power to transform their organisation.
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What you’ll learn
The below sessions are just an appetizer of what you will learn across the 24 hour event:
- Onboarding Excellence: How early onboarding can build a positive culture and improve employee retention and performance.
- Workplace Well-being: Strategies for supporting mental health, boosting engagement, and fostering a people-first culture.
- Hybrid Work Challenges: Approaches to creating flexible, high-trust hybrid work environments that support well-being and attract talent.
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB): The importance of integrating DEIB into workplace culture for success.
- Leadership and Communication: The role of empathy, trust-building, and active listening in enhancing employee satisfaction and engagement.
- AI in the Workplace: How AI can boost productivity while maintaining a human-centric, trust-driven work culture.
- Psychological Safety and Inclusion: The need for psychological safety to create genuine inclusion and strengthen team collaboration.
- Employee Feedback to Action: How listening to employees and acting on feedback can lead to meaningful change and improved engagement.
- Empathy in Leadership: The critical role empathy plays in leadership, decision-making, and improving employee well-being.