11am Thursday 12th June 2025
In today’s challenging economic climate, employers are striving to balance the bottom line while facing rising costs and the imperative to boost productivity. Alongside this the focus on retaining top talent and ensuring employee wellbeing remains crucial to business performance.
Discover the latest research that proves family-friendly workplaces excel in all these areas! Hear what a fully developed family-inclusive strategy looks like at Marsh McLennan, the world’s leading professional services firm.
Why Attend?
- Access the latest data from Bright Horizons’ newly released Work+Family Snapshot research with nearly 2,000 employees.
- Hear how Marsh McLennan has developed a family inclusive culture for its people with a range of supports across life stages from new parents, through the school and teen years as well as support for carers of adults.
- Explore the contrast between family-friendly employers with high engagement and performance and the wider UK population of working parents and carers.
- Take away the tips that help leading employers to be seen as 22 percentage points more supportive than the average employer.
Who Should Attend?
- HR Leaders: Gain insights to elevate your employee engagement and retention strategies.
- Business Leaders: Discover how family-friendly policies can transform your bottom line.
- Reward, Benefit & Wellbeing Leaders: Understand how family support can help create a more inclusive and productive workplace.
Guest: Jennifer Liston-Smith, Head of Thought Leadership, Bright Horizons
Jennifer has spent over 20 years driving innovation in family-friendly, flexible working, and wellbeing programmes. She is a recognised speaker and consultant, previously leading the Coaching & Consultancy division of Bright Horizons. She now focuses on identifying and translating key trends into practical actions for employers.
Guest: Leah Gray, Benefits Manager UK&I, Marsh McLennan
Leah Gray is the Benefits Manager for Marsh McLennan in the UK and Ireland. Looking after a population of over 13,000 colleagues, with a real passion of improving all aspects of wellbeing, particularly financial wellness. She also has a keen interest in supporting as many different groups within the workforce as possible, such as working parents, colleagues with caring responsibility and those starting out in their career.
Hosted by: James Marsh
James is an organisational learning and development specialist and has worked as an HR manager, consultant, in-house recruiter and trainer with expertise in both management strategy and HR policies and processes. A former editor of HRreview, James then spent seven years at specialist retailer Planet Organic as the architect of their learning strategy and apprenticeship programmes before moving to Guardian News Media in June 2022. He has continued to work closely with HRreview as a podcast presenter and the regular chairperson of their award winning webinar series, InsideHR.