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Nicola Millard from BT to speak at Health @ Work Summit

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Symposium Events have announced that  Dr Nicola Millard, who heads up Customer Insight & Futures in BT’s Global Innovation Team, will speak at their Health @ Work Summit on 11 June 2015.

Nicola combines psychology with futurology to try and anticipate what might be lying around the corner for both customers and organisations. With a PhD from Lancaster University, she published her first book in 2009, and has appeared on the BBC and Channel 4, as well as TV in Australia, South Africa, Turkey and Dubai.

Nicola has worked for BT for 24 years and has been involved with a number of BT “firsts” including the first application of intelligent systems into BT’s call centres and BT’s initial experimentation with home working.

When she’s not doing all that, Nicola’s running workshops and presenting at conferences. Her presentation will cover:

Future work trends: managing agile working

  • The end of the 9-5
  • Benefits on employee wellbeing
  • Managing binge working and redrawing boundaries with technology

If you are interested in employee wellbeing and health, the Symposium’s event will provide you with cutting edge strategies to improve employee wellbeing and mental health in your organisation at a time when stress and mental health problems are reportedly on the rise.  Additional speakers include representatives from Morrison’s Supermarkets, Sweaty Betty, easyJet, Barclays and Eversheds.

Find out more: Health @ Work Summit

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