
8 Week Virtual Experience – Nov 2020 to Feb 2021
In Person Event – March 2021
We are sitting on the precipice of great change.
The crisis of 2020 has created fundamental shifts – both in ourselves as leaders, and for our people – that are transforming the way we work forever. Now we have an opportunity to create a new future. A future where our people and organisations can truly thrive!
But business leaders like you are telling us they are weary. Overworked and overwhelmed. Fatigued and disillusioned.
What you are craving is Strength. Inspiration. Community. Togetherness.
Let us nurture you – intellectually, emotionally and physically. We invite you to take part in a new transformation journey where you have the power to create your own experience. An experience that will lift you, your team and your organisation to greatness in 2021 and beyond!
Your Storytellers

Steven Worrall
Microsoft Australia

Chloe Sesta Jacobs
Head of People & Culture
Deputy

Peggy Renders
Senior VP, Digital Transformation Office APJ
SAP

Andi Csontos
Partner, Climate Change & Sustainability Services
EY

Chin Yin Ong
Head of People
Grab

Kath Blackham
Founder & CEO
Versa

Lachy Gray
Managing Director
Yarno

Eglantine Etiemble
EGM IT and Digital
DuluxGroup

Genevieve Hawkins
General Manager, Insurance
Coles

Steve Milnes
Head of Change Management
QBE

Cassie Goodman
Facilitator
Thrive Global

Sarah Merrick
Business Manager, Technology
SBS

Dr Greg de Moore
Associate Professor Psychiatry, Westmead Hospital
Westmead Hospital

Peter Zorn
Global Talent & Transformation
IBM

Dan Price
Founder & CEO
Gravity Payments

Gillian Coutts
Country Director
Potential Project

Jac Peters
Head of Leadership and Engagement
Coca Cola Amatil

Andrea Muras
Organisation Development Manager
NSW Dept of Customer Service

Matt Loop
Head of Asia Pacific
Slack

Claude Silver
Chief Heart Officer
VaynerMedia
experience Champions & Hosts

Melinda Upton
Global Co-Chair, IP & Technology
DLA Piper

Mikey Ellis
Director, Talent & OD
Koala

Alana Bennett
Human Experience Fanatic & Coach
Connected Experience

Dr Liz Wilson
Include

Laurent Sylvestre
CEO & Founder
The Human Perspectives

Adam Jadresic
EHS Lead
GSK

Cath Brain
Director, Talent & Development
Atlas Arteria

Desleigh White
Country HR Manager
Hitachi ABB Power Grids

Louise Kelly
Louise Kelly

Greg Hawes
Founder
GH Meditation

Melanie vonHartitzsch
People Geek
Culture Amp
Harnessing the insight from our research, we’ve designed an 8-week transformational experience delivered virtually, with the option to join a face-to-face 2-day event in March 2021
From the virtual programme, you can expect:

The opportunity to create your own experience from a menu of bite sized interactions and sessions, delivered weekly

Each week is themed around what you told us are your key priorities for a thriving workplace moving forward

Choose from inspiring expert discussions, small closed-group think tanks and wellness practices

Option to join live or catch-up later with the recordings

Access to a closed-group awesome bunch of humans who will support and inspire you along the way

Mindfulness Monday
15 mins – live and recorded : Monday 7.00am
Take a moment to kick start your week with this short meditation session

Experience Exchange
60 mins – live and recorded : Tuesday 10.00am
Three incredible storytellers share their experiences and unique concepts in daring to be different. Half of this session is dedicated to interactive discussion, so have your questions at the ready!

Wellbeing Wednesday
30 mins – live and recorded : Wednesday 7.00am
A stretch and movement practice that will leave you feeling present and empowered

Co-Creation Huddles
60 mins – LIVE ONLY : Friday 1.00pm
Let’s talk about YOU! Join your tribe in our virtual gathering to workshop YOUR most pressing challenges and issues
WEEK 1 : AMPLIFY - from 16 November


Mindfulness Monday
Open Your Mind To The New

Experience Exchange
Equipping Yourself and Your People to Thrive Through Change.
Featuring:
Jac Peters - Head of Leadership and Engagement - Coca Cola Amatil
Andrea Muras - Organisation Development Manager - NSW Dept of Customer Service
Matt Loop - Head of Asia Pacific - Slack
With Your Session Champion:
Melanie vonHartitzsch - People Geek - Culture Amp


Wellbeing Wednesday
Expand and Open Your Body

Co-Creation Huddles
Are YOU Coaching, Inspiring, and Leading Through Change?
WEEK 2 : CALM - from 23 November

Mindfulness Monday
Calming Your Mind for Greater Clarity

Experience Exchange
How Can Senior Leaders Create a Mentally Healthy Culture For People to Thrive?
Taking a preventative, sustainable approach to mental health - Putting your own oxygen mask on first and modelling behaviours
- How to harness the super power of connection
Three incredible storytellers share their experiences and unique concepts in how to quell the tide of mental health issues coming to our workplaces as a response to 2020!
Featuring:
Steven Worrall - Managing Director - Microsoft Australia
Genevieve Hawkins - General Manager Insurance - Coles Group & Author of Mentally At Work
Dr Greg de Moore - Associate Professor Psychiatry - Westmead Hospital
With Your Session Champion:
Melinda Upton - Global Co-Chair, IP & Technology - DLA Piper


Wellbeing Wednesday
Relax Your Body

Co-Creation Huddles
We will break out into smaller, expert-led groups to discuss:
- How has this year impacted your own mental health?
- How would you rate the mental fitness level of your team and your organisation?
- What steps could you take to solve current issues or prevent further ones?
WEEK 3 : COURAGE - from 30 November

Mindfulness Monday
Finding Your Courage

Experience Exchange
What Does it Take to Lead Courageously Through These Unprecedented Times and Beyond?
- Who are you? be inspired to be your true, authentic self!
- The magic triangle of connected leadership - heart, head and gut
- Why integrity always wins
- Energising yourself and others to thrive through continuous change
Three incredible storytellers share their experiences and unique concepts in daring to be different - and succeeding as a result!
Featuring:
Peter Zorn - Global Talent and Transformation - IBM
Peggy Renders - Senior VP, Digital Transformation Office APJ - SAP
Claude Silver - Chief Hart Officer, VaynerMedia USA
Led by your session champion:
Gillian Coutts - Country Director & Author - Potential Project


Wellbeing Wednesday
Build Courage Through Your Body
Bonus Session
Faciliated by Mikey Ellis
In 2015, Dan made headlines around the world when he announced to the entire Gravity team that he planned to raise the minimum wage for everyone to $70,000 - and reduce his own to $70,000 from $1.1million. He called the move a “moral imperative” to do the best you can for those you’re leading.
Join this session to hear what led Dan to rethink the true purpose of business—and how taking a huge risk ultimately helped his company become more resilient and competitive. Calling on leaders to set and execute on their own purpose-driven visions, Price encourages you to question traditional market-centric business wisdom in favor of a more human—and much more sustainable—approach. It’s not easy, he argues, but in the end, the rewards will be worth it.

Co-Creation Huddles
We will break out into smaller, expert-led groups to discuss:
- What does courageous leadership mean to you?
- How have you shown courage through these challenging times?
- What’s stopping you from being the leader you want to be?
- Where to next? And who will keep you accountable?
WEEK 4: TRUST - from 7 December

Mindfulness Monday
Letting Go

Experience Exchange
How to Make Flexible Working Work… For the Long Term
- Celebrating the unique needs of individuals
- Preventing burnout where boundaries are blurred
- Designing an environment for people and creativity to thrive - both at work and in the office
This year, the worlds’ biggest experiment in remote working took place. And most agree, there can be no turning back to the way things were! Join this session where three game changing business leaders are redefining what ‘work’ means for their businesses.
Featuring:
Eglantine Etiemble - EGM IT and Digital - DuluxGroup
Steve Milnes - Head of Change Management - QBE
Kath Blackham - Founder and CEO - VERSA
Led by your session champion:
Alana Bennett - Human Experience Fanatic & Coach - Connected Experience


Wellbeing Wednesday

Co-Creation Huddles
We will break out into smaller, expert-led groups to share experiences and help one another, discussing:
- How has the way ‘work’ gets done changed in your team or organisation this year?
- What challenges and opportunities have emerged?
- Where do you want to take your team and organisation in 2021?
BONUS WEEK: PURPOSE - from 15 December

Thrive Global Workshop
Self-Fidelity: How Being True to Yourself Uplifts Your Working Life
Self-fidelity is an invitation to create an uplifting working life. A working life that honours our humanity and nourishes our hearts, minds, bodies and souls. A working life that supports us to better serve our colleagues, customers, friends and family. A working life that works in harmony with our other big loves and the delicate eco-systems we inhabit. A working life that tumbles and brings forth the brilliant jewels buried deep inside of us.
In this 90-minute interactive session, together, we will…
- Wake Up to the truth of who we are and to a new understanding of work
- Let Be the parts of ourselves that have been diminished and forgotten
- Let Go of the things that hold us back
- Let in the nourishment we need to rise
- We will discover that what we have been desperately seeking has been available to us all along – waiting patiently inside of us.
This workshop is for you if:
- You are sick and tired of trying to ‘fix’, mould and prove yourself
- You want to experience greater fulfilment, happiness and vitality at work, and in life
- You believe that work has the potential to be life-enhancing – not soul-destroying
Led by Thrive Global Facilitator and Author of ‘Self Fidelity’ Cassandra Goodman
All participants will also receive a complimentary copy of Cassandra’s book with exercises to work through at your own pace.
BONUS WEEK: VITALITY - from 19 January

Benestar Workshop
WEEK 5: CONNECTION - from 25 January

Mindfulness Monday
Be More Connected To Self, Others, Environment

Experience Exchange
Empowering Team Connectedness & Culture in this Unique New World
- Unique ways to foster collaboration, innovation and flexibility
- Developing social intelligence as a pathway to social connectedness
- How to replicate the ‘water cooler’ conversation virtually
- Embedding new hires into the team fabric
Join this session where three exceptional business leaders share how they’ve strengthened team cohesion in the past year.
Featuring:
Chin Yin Ong - Head of People - Grab (Singapore)
Chloe Sesta Jacobs - Head of People & Culture - Deputy
Claude Silver - Chief Heart Officer - VaynerMedia
Led by your session champion:
Laurent Sylvestre - CEO and Founder - The Human Perspectives


Wellbeing Wednesday

Co-Creation Huddles
We will break out into smaller, expert-led groups to share experiences and help one another, discussing:
- How has the way ‘work’ gets done changed in your team or organisation this year?
- What challenges and opportunities have emerged?
- Where do you want to take your team and organisation in 2021?
WEEK 6: TOGETHERNESS - from 1 February

Mindfulness Monday
A Practice to Build Empathy and Compassion for Others

Experience Exchange
Harnessing Renewed Energy for Diversity to Build a Better World of Work
- How every leader - regardless of role or responsibility - can improve diversity outcomes
- What gender balance issues has the pandemic highlighted and amplified? And what can we as employers do to resolve them?
- Channeling the energy from the Black Lives Matter Movement for greater good in our teams and organisations
Join this session where three exceptional business leaders share the outstanding work they’re driving to transform diversity outcomes and discuss where to from here.
Featuring:
Andi Csontos - Partner Climate Change & Sustainability - EY
Sarah Merrick - Business Manager, Technology - SBS
Led by your session champion:
Liz Wilson - CEO & Founder - Include


Wellbeing Wednesday

Co-Creation Huddles
We will break out into smaller, expert-led groups to share experiences and help one another, discussing:
- Has the pandemic amplified or created any new biases in your team?
- Where is your team or organisation currently at in its push for greater diversity?
- What challenges do you need to overcome to achieve greater diversity?
WEEK 7: UNIQUELY YOU - from 8 February
WEEK 8: HOPE - from 14 February
Brought to you by Converge International.



The Research
2020 has presented us with many unprecedented challenges. Yet it has also gifted us incredible opportunities – to innovate, to think and differently and to transform.
Running a series of virtual Think Tanks in August 2020, we uncovered the immense impact this year has had on our workplaces. Plus what leaders from 50 organisations in Australia & New Zealand believe are our key priorities for thriving into 2021 and beyond.
event venue: march 2021
Imagine yourself spending two incredible days here…
Hidden away in 30-hectares of native Australian bushland lies a unique setting for your discovery and transformation journey!
With its own secluded beach, stunning views over the harbour, ocean breeze and natural light streaming in through the windows…we think we’ve found the ultimate space for this year’s Thriving Workplace event.
Whilst you’ll feel a million miles away from the hustle and bustle of the city, in reality you’re just a short ferry ride away from the CBD. Plus, it’s one of the only places in Sydney where you’ll find free parking!
Overnight accommodation is strictly limited, so to avoid disappointment please secure your room now!
Click here to book your accommodation at Q Station, Manly.
Alternative accommodation can be found a 5-minute drive away in Manly centre. We recommend:
I love this event. It has done more to develop my mindset and business than any other I have attended.”






© The Serenity Collective 2019 | All Rights Reserved | Design by Expert Agency