Date: Thursday 20th November 2025
Time: 12PM - 1PM
Location: Online, Microsoft Teams Meeting
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CIUK Member Price: £60 + VAT
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Webinar: Creating kinder cultures that enable your people to thrive 2025
You optimise the performance of your business when you create a kind culture that drives the energy of your employees. In this session we look at the best ways of keeping our staff mentally resilient whilst also looking after our own mental wellbeing. David Beeney will share insight on how best to create a workplace that is kind but people are inspired to achieve great results.
Learning outcomes:
- Explore ideas of how to create a kinder culture where people are caring, supportive and more empathic of each other’s anxieties.
- Look at what is considered best practice for Leaders to inspire employees to remain engaged during exceptionally challenging times.
- The importance of using the right language to encourage honest and open conversation about wellbeing.
- How you can improve your own levels of personal resilience during challenging times.
- How to inspire employees to be more open by saying ‘it’s okay not to be okay’ and by sharing our own vulnerabilities.
- The signs to look for that someone may be struggling and how best to open up a conversation with them.
- What is considered a best practice conversation for a Leader when someone approaches citing poor mental wellbeing.
David Beeney enjoyed a successful career in newspapers and magazines for over 30 years, he was the MD of a regional daily newspaper and Commercial Director for Auto Trader. However, since outing himself in 2016 about his secret battles with panic attacks he believes that he has now found true purpose and has committed to spend the rest of his life eradicating the stigma of mental health. His business Breaking the Silence has quickly established itself as one of the leading advisors in the UK on ‘mental health in the workplace’ and David has helped many of the leading brands in the UK to create kinder more compassionate cultures of trust. He was recognised again in 2025 as one of the top 101 global influencers on employee engagement and is the author of ‘Breaking the Silence’. David is a qualified Mental Health Counsellor affiliated to the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Practitioners) and has been a trustee for Mind.
Important – Due to the sensitive nature of this webinar, no recording will take place.