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Webinar: Helping your managers navigate the
new world of work

10am - 19th June 2025
Presenters: Jen Southern & Di Gates

This session is for HR and People Leaders who want to understand the latest shifts shaping the workplace—and how to support their managers in driving engagement and connection. Join Hive’s Head of People Science, Jen Southern FCIPD, and Connection Heroes Founder, Di Gates, for practical insights and proven strategies.

 

In this session, we’ll dive into:

  • The biggest shifts reshaping attitudes to work
  • Five shifts exposing the engagement gap—and what leaders can do about it
  • Six new challenges for workplace connection
  • Three practical responses: listening, training and rituals.

 

You’ll leave with:

  • A sharper understanding of the workplace pressures reshaping leadership
  • A fresh perspective on the role of managers as connectors and culture builders
  • Clear, actionable strategies to improve engagement, communication, and trust
  • Practical tools to support feedback, foster connection, and lead lasting change

 

Whether you’re designing your leadership development programme, shaping your engagement strategy, or simply want to better support your managers, this session will leave you better informed, better equipped, and ready to take action.

About your hosts:

Jen Southern – Head of People Science at Hive HR  

Jen leads a team of specialists who partner with clients to turn insights into action, improving engagement, experience, and culture at scale. Drawing on her background as a Business Psychologist, Jen brings rich insight into what drives employee voice, what gets in the way, and how leaders can create real, lasting change by listening better.

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Jen Southern Head of People Science at Hive HR

Di Gates – founder of Connection Heroes  

Connection Heroes is an innovative training provider that helps organisations strengthen human connection and improve communication and collaboration across distributed teams. Through her work, Di gathers rich insights about how human connection impacts people and profit, what blocks connection in our fast-changing workplace, and how leaders can improve connection to create happy, healthy high-performing teams.

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Di Gates Founder of Connection Heroes

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