KEYNOTE 02

The Workplace Wellbeing Illusion

Most organisations are investing in wellbeing. Few are designing the conditions that actually matter.

About this keynote

Morning teas, yoga sessions, EAP programs, and resilience workshops. Organisations are spending more on wellbeing than ever before, and getting less back than they hoped. This keynote exposes the illusion at the heart of most workplace wellbeing strategies: that initiatives can fix what conditions created - they can’t. Drawing on real-world evidence and systemic thinking, Amy explores why wellbeing cannot be layered onto broken systems, unclear expectations, and unsustainable workloads, and what it actually takes to design workplaces where people can function, contribute, and feel well.

What your audience will walk away with

  • Understand why wellbeing investment keeps rising while burnout, disengagement, and workload pressure rise alongside it.

  • Identify the illusion, how surface-level initiatives create the appearance of care without addressing the conditions underneath.

  • Explore what the research actually tells us about what makes people feel well, safe, and capable at work.

  • Discover how to shift from a program mindset to a design mindset, and what that looks like in practice for leaders and organisations.

  • Leave with a clear framework for auditing and redesigning the conditions in your workplace that matter most.

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