This interactive event was hosted at Google’s offices in London, and featured two speakers from Google – Jennifer Kelly, Global Head of Real Estate, and Yvonne Agyei, Head of Benefits. Other speakers included Julian Birkinshaw of the London Business School, Tansy Drake and Tim Dorsett of Innocent, and Kate Grimes, CEO of Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
In this 16 minute video Henry takes us through some of the principles of Happy Workplaces.
Tansy and Tim speaking at Happy Workplaces 2014.
Innocent are a very unique brand with a very unique culture – hear first hand from two of their key personnel.
Julian Birkinshaw covered everything from habit formation, through road traffic planning, all the way to the surprising lead indicator of employee engagement – and some great inspiration for your upward peer appraisal process.
Kate Grimes has risen from hospital porter to CEO of Kingston NHS. In this thoughtful presentation at Happy Workplaces 2014, Kate explains how Kingston created its values-driven culture, promotes autonomy coupled with coaching and accreditation, and poses the question “If we know this stuff works so well, why doesn’t the NHS do more of it?”
A surprise hit at Happy Workplaces 2014 was the Google-led meditation session in the afternoon. Why not try this at your organisation?
Date: Wednesday, 12th November 2025
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