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Agenda - Thursday 23rd October 2025

Royal College of Physicians, 11 Queen St, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ

08:30 – 09:15

Registration & Networking

09:15 – 09:25
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Welcome from the Chair & Setting the Scene

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Chris Cummings
Group CEO, Wellbeing at Work
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09:25 – 09:30
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Breathwork Energiser

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Gemma Donnelly, Executive Coach | Breathwork Facilitator | Corporate Wellness
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09:30 – 09:55
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Opening Keynote Address

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Nick Ward
CEO, Change Mental Health
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09:55 – 10:35

Leadership Panel: The Role of Leaders in Championing the Wellbeing Charge

How can we empower leaders to cultivate self-awareness and enhance their leadership skills, particularly as the focus increasingly shifts toward integrating AI into workplace dynamics? How do leaders model behaviours that promote wellbeing and high performance? How can compassionate leaders ensure wellbeing is a long-term, strategic and outcome-driven priority and not a compliance or process driven role?
Arlene Stokes

Arlene Stokes
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Arlene Stokes
Chief People Officer, Aegon UK
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Fiona Hogg
Chief People Officer, NHS Scotland
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Pam Simmons

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Pam Simmons
HR Director and Company Secretary, Scottish Friendly
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10:35 – 11:05

Networking Break & Conversation Time

11:05 – 11:40

Leadership Panel: Reimagining Wellbeing: From dated perk to Health & Performance Department

Learning lessons from how leading organisations are creating a performance differentiator for their people and wider business through modern wellbeing strategies.
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Alan Mochrie
Benefits & Wellbeing Manager, NatWest
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Chuxx Onyia
Health + Performance Lead, EMEA, Google
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Will Turner
CEO, GoJoe
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11:30 - 12:30

Interactive Workshops

Here, we invite attendees to choose an interactive workshop of their choice for interactive and peer to peer learning.
12:30 - 13:35

Networking Lunch

13:35 - 13:40

Post-Lunch Audience Energiser

13:40 - 14:00

Keynote Speaker

Details to be announced shortly
14:00 - 14:40

Leadership Panel: Building a Positive & Thriving Culture

Dr Deborah Smart

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Dr Deborah Smart
Executive Director – Corporate Services, The City of Edinburgh Council
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Fiona

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Fiona McAslan
Head of Health and Wellbeing, Royal Mail
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Morven

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Morven MacLean
Director of People & Strategy, Children’s Hospices Across Scotland
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Judith Mackinnon
Head of People Advice, Scottish Government
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14:40 - 15:00

Networking Break

15:00 - 15:30

Group Interactive Round Tables

Here, we pose 1-2 questions and the different groups will discuss and feedback
15:30 - 15:45

Closing Remarks

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Chris Cummings
Group CEO, Wellbeing at Work
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Nick Ward
CEO, Change Mental Health
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15:45 - 17:00

Networking Reception